Summary

Pottery food vessel from the cemetery at Barns Farm, Dalgety Bay, Fife

Accession Number

X.EQ 901

Other references

None

Original description

[MOS List, II.5.1, Death: object list by case, JAS 3.2.98. Case no.: V08 - Identity: part of community]. [One of] Grave goods from cemetery at Barns Farm: - from Cist 1: - Food Vessel. T. Cowie notes, 14 May 2008: Description after Watkins 1982: Food vessel - Northern Tripartite Vase: hard buff-to-brown fabric; almost intact; from an internally beveled and marginally everted rim the vessel expands gently through two ribs on its shoulder and then narrows to a slightly footed base. On the inner edge of the rim bevel is a band of contiguous diagonal whipped cord maggots each c 6 mm long, while on the upper surface of the outer edge of the rim is a band of short diagonal cuts between 3 mm and 5 mm long and 5 mm apart. Between these embellished edges, the surface of the rim is slightly concave and is decorated with an average of three discontinuous channels, c 2 mm wide, similar to those on the body of the vessel. The outer angle of the rim and the two ribs are decorated with short, overlapping, oval, whipped cord maggots c 10 mm long. The rest of the outer surface appears to be decorated all over with horizontal channels; however, the channels are often not continuous, being built up in panels of up to five or six short strokes c 45 mm long, set one above the other. The implement used for this decoration may have been a single piece of wood rather than a multi-ended tool such as a comb, as there are identical ridges on the bases of the channels. On the base are three groups of roughly parallel slashes: they are faint, but do not resemble the channeling on the body. H: 140 mm high; maximum diameter of 172 mm and an external rim diameter of 163 mm. The diameter of the base is 71 mm. Excavator’s reference no: FRN 1. Watkins 1982, fig 14. For further discussion see Watkins 1982. Reference: Watkins, T ‘The excavation of an Early Bronze Age cemetery at Barns Farm, Dalgety, Fife Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 112 (1982) 48-141

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)

Barns Farm, Dalgety Bay, Fife, Scotland, Northern Europe

Grid reference

Not recorded

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1982

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Agent

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