Summary

Slightly curving body sherd from a fine-textured beaker decorated with bands of close-set lines of comb impressions and rows of diagonal jabbed impressions, from the short cist cemetery at West Water Reservoir, West Linton, Peeblesshire, Early Bronze Age

Accession Number

X.1995.93.25

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 1051]. Beaker sherd, feature 2 (= sf 39). Slightly curving body sherd from a fine-textured Beaker, decorated with bands of horizontal, close-set lines of comb impressions and rows of diagonal jabbed impressions. The comb used is unusually narrow for Beaker combs (c. 0.5 mm) and had rectangular teeth. The closest parallels for this decorative scheme, with more than three horizontal lines to one side of a band of diagonal impressions, are to be found in Clarke's Northern British/Northern Rhine (N/NR) and Primary Northern British/Dutch (N1/D) type Beakers (Steps 3-4 in Lanting and van der Waals' scheme). The exterior and interior are a slightly reddish-brown, and the core dark grey. The surfaces had been carefully smoothed, and have a slip-like appearance (deriving either from a thin slip or from wet-smoothing); the exterior had been slightly polished before decoration. Inclusions, mostly well-concealed, fairly sparse (5-7%), sub-angular, and mostly of a whitish mineral. 40 x 38 x 7.8 mm.

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