Summary

Bipartite vase food vessel, intact and in excellent condition, from the short cist cemetery at West Water Reservoir, West Linton, Peeblesshire, Early Bronze Age

Accession Number

X.1995.93.11

Other references

Original description

[MOS List, II.5.1, Death: object list by case, JAS 3.2.98. Case no.: V03 - Early Bronze Age: individual burial]. [One of] Food Vessels: West Water Reservoir: - cist 4. PK note: Provisional 1997 register number allocated to MOS object. Finds from excavations at West Water Reservoir, West Linton, Peeblesshire. Type of site: Short cist cemetery. Date: Early Bronze Age. Finds from the Early Bronze Age cemetery (area A). [EQ 1037]. Food Vessel, cist 4 (= sf 24). Bipartite vase Food Vessel, intact and in excellent condition except for patch of slight surface erosion on one side. Height 136 mm; diameter at rim and base 146 mm and 80 mm respectively; wall thickness c. 14 mm. Rim upright and pointed, with steep internal bevel; neck very slightly concave from around 10 mm below top of rim; neck-belly junction just above mid-height, and so gentle as to be near-imperceptible. Internal bevel, and whole of exterior to base, covered with whipped cord 'maggot' decoration in stretches up to 25 mm long. On the bevel and outside of the rim these are arranged as diagonal lines; elsewhere they form discontinuous, roughly horizontal rows. Buff throughout, with occasional light grey mottles on the exterior and patches of thin blackish encrustation on the interior, extending over the belly and part of the neck; these may well represent the last traces of the pot's evaporated former contents.The pot had been coated with a slightly glossy self-slip prior to decoration, and this obscures the inclusions; but latter comprises fairly abundant sub-angular grits of more than one mineral, up to 5 x 4.5 mm. Mica flecks are also visible in the slip. Placed upright between the head and the side of the cist; tipped slightly to the north during filling of the cist.

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

None

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

Not recorded

Method (e.g. excavation)

Excavated

Place (i.e. location of discovery)

West Water Reservoir, West Linton, Peeblesshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Grid reference

Not recorded

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1995

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Agent

Image

None