Summary

Lopsided globular bowl food vessel, intact, from the short cist cemetery at West Water Reservoir, West Linton, Peeblesshire, Early Bronze Age

Accession Number

X.1995.93.16

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 1042]. Food vessel, cist 7 cremation (= sf 34). Lopsided globular bowl Food Vessel, intact. Height 130 mm; diameter at rim and base c. 168 and 88 mm respectively; maximum diameter c.185 mm; wall thickness c. 15 mm. Rim inturned and pointed, with steep concave internal bevel. Curvature of body not smooth, but marked by two gentle changes of direction, each emphasised by a row of rough jabbed impressions. Base pedestalled. Decoration is by incision and impression, and comprises: i) these two rows of jabs, plus another three-quarters of the way down the body and a fourth on the edge of the base; ii) faint impressions of whipped cord 'maggots', 8-10 mm long - two rows on the rim bevel, and two in between the upper pair of jab-rows; and iii) roughly horizontal lines, incised with a straw-like tool, occupying the rest of the external surface. Exterior a rich orange-brown with grey mottles; interior rich red-brown, with one small dark patch (of uncertain significance) just below the rim. The surfaces had been carefully smoothed and may have been wet-smoothed or had a thin slip, but the soft, easily abraded nature of the exterior makes it hard to judge. Inclusions fairly abundant (estimated 15-20%), angular and sub-angular grits up to 11 x 8.5 mm, protruding through both surfaces. Placed upright among the bones in the south-east corner.

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