Summary

Red earthenware jug with a globular body, pedestal base and long flared neck, decorated with a plant motif, dredged up by a Scalpay fishing boat south-west of the Shiant Isles opposite Harris

Accession Number

H.MEA 430

Other references

Original description

MEDIEVAL POTTERY. Jug with globular body, pedestal base and long flared neck. It has a strap handle and a tubular pouring spout (all but the base of which is missing). It is decorated with a plant motif ... all in applied clay. The fabric is red earthenware with a white slip ... It was dredged up by the Scalpay fishing boat AGATE - DY 256 ... 4 1/2 miles SW of the Shiant Isles ...

Associated person/people (e.g. excavator/former collection)

AGATE (fishing boat)
Donald Morrison

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

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Method (e.g. excavation)

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Place (i.e. location of discovery)

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Acquisition

Acquisition date

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Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

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Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

Image

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