Summary

Silver bar fragment with three V-shaped nicks on one edge, from the short cist cemetery at West Water Reservoir, West Linton, Peeblesshire

Accession Number

X.1995.93.30

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 1056]. Silver bar fragment, area of feature 3 (= sf 46). Silver bar, very slightly curved in longitudinal section, broken at both ends and with three V-shaped nicks on one edge, one cut from one face and two from the other, the second at one broken end. The nicks look to be cut with an iron knife. This may be of some antiquity, but is undiagnostic; silver is known in Scotland from the Roman period onwards. L 10 mm, W 3 mm, T 1.5 mm. Area A, from area of feature 3.

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