Summary

Thin section from bipartite vase food vessel X.1995.93.14 from the short cist cemetery at West Water Reservoir, West Linton, Peeblesshire, Early Bronze Age

Accession Number

X.1995.93.14 A

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 1040 A] Thin section from EQ 1040 [Food Vessel, cist 7 inhumation (= sf 35). Bipartite vase Food Vessel, restored and complete but for fragment of base]. Angular to sub-angular rock fragments (reddish-brown in hand specimen) and mineral grains in a highly porous glassy matrix. The rock fragments comprise mainly sericite (very fine grained undifferentiated clays) or fine-grained feldspar matrix with larger feldspar crystals, partially altered chlorite, partially altered biotite and iron oxide minerals. They could possibly be of microdiorite or andesite. There are also small amounts of individual and composite quartz grains (some showing strain extinction) in the glassy matrix.

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