Summary

Pottery beaker with rounded rim and corrugated neck with incised decoration consisting of horizontal comb lines, herring bone pattern, crosses and hexagons filled with vertical lines. From Ruchlaw Mains, East Lothian, Early Bronze Age

Accession Number

X.2004.3

Other references

Original description

Beaker. ORF: IDENTIFICATION / PRODUCTION - Classification Number: EG 124. Object Name: Beaker. Object Category: Pottery. Description: Beaker. The rim is rounded but not everywhere symmetrically so, its inner face is almost flat and its peak markedly towards the outside; it has a corrugated neck, the corrugation produced by grooves rather than ridges. Decoration zonal, composed of a combination of incision and toothcomb and consisting largely of a mixture of horizontal comb lines, incised herring bone and crosses. The uppermost band of decoration, however, consists of tall hexagons run together and filled with vertical lines. Colour: dirty buff, interior reduced to a dark grey (after Ashmore et al 1982, 546-7). Style / Culture: Beaker (Developed or Late Northern type/Step 4: after Ashmore et al 1982, 546). PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS - Materials: Ceramic. Colour: Buff. Condition: Incomplete. Dimensions: H. (mm): 212mm. Dia. (mm): 152mm rim diameter. FIELD COLLECTION - Place: Ruchlaw Mains, Stenton, Whittingehame, East Lothian. Grid Reference: NT 6166 7426. Period: EBA. Context: Cist burial. Method: Excavation. Date: 1981. Notes: NMRS no: NT67SW 14. DOCUMENTATION - Bibliographic Reference: Ashmore, P. J., M Brooks, I Mate and P Strong, 1982. A cist at Ruchlaw Mains, East Lothian. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 112 (1982) 542-48. Registered / Completed By: Daniel Sahlén / Trevor Cowie. Date: 11/06/2004.

Associated person/people (e.g. excavator/former collection)

None

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

1981

Method (e.g. excavation)

Excavated

Place (i.e. location of discovery)

Ruchlaw Mains, Stenton, East Lothian, Scotland, Northern Europe

Grid reference

Not recorded

Acquisition

Acquisition date

2004-06

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Historic Scotland, Finds Disposal Panel

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Agent

Image

None