Summary

Body sherd from the lower part of a fine-textured all-over-comb decorated bell beaker, from the short cist cemetery at West Water Reservoir, West Linton, Peeblesshire, Early Bronze Age

Accession Number

X.1995.93.26

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 1052]. Beaker sherd, feature 2 (= sf 57). Body sherd from the lower part of a fine-textured All-Over-Comb decorated Bell Beaker (Lanting and van der Waals' Step 2), with an estimated belly diameter of 160-180 mm. The whole of the exterior is covered with horizontal lines of impressions of a squarish-toothed comb (which had been at least 34 mm long). The exterior and part of the core is a rich orange-brown; the rest of the core a slightly greyer shade, and the interior light brown. The surfaces had been carefully smoothed (probably wet-smoothed), and the exterior lightly polished before decoration. Inclusions are fairly numerous (c. 10%) but mostly very small, and unobtrusive; the largest is 3 x 2.5 mm.They comprise sub-angular fragments of a black crystalline rock. 65 x 38 x 7.3 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