Summary

Bipartite vase food vessel, reconstructed and virtually complete, from the short cist cemetery at West Water Reservoir, West Linton, Peeblesshire, Early Bronze Age

Accession Number

X.1995.93.2

Other references

Original description

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 1028]. Food Vessel, cist 2 (= sf 1, 14, 15, 21, 51, 53, 54). Bipartite vase Food Vessel, reconstructed and virtually complete. Height 135 mm; diameter at rim and base 125 mm and 68 mm respectively; wall thickness c 14 mm. Rim upright and rounded, with steep internal bevel; neck vertical; neck-belly junction roughly at mid-height, and not sharply defined. Exterior, from rim to base, covered with bands of impressed decoration, mostly faint and mostly made using a squarish-toothed comb; latter arranged as a fringe of near-vertical lines at the top and bottom of the wall, and as untidy, roughly horizontal lines in between. Remainder of decoration comprises a row of false relief 'V's' at mid-neck height; of narrow, vertical jabs around the neck-belly junction; and of very faint, narrow jabs at mid-belly height. Exterior surface mottled buff and grey-brown; core dark grey-brown; interior grey-brown, with discontinuous dark grey patch over part of the belly and base (the latter probably deriving from the firing of the pot, rather than from any former contents). Fabric heavily gritted (c. 25%), with angular grits up to 5 x 5.5 mm; these protrude through the surfaces, particularly on part of the exterior where slight erosion has occurred. The surfaces had been smoothed, but not slipped or polished. Smashed and scattered by water; much of one side was found where the south end slab had fallen on it, suggesting it may have been placed at this end originally.

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