Summary

Pottery / hard / fragment

Accession Number

X.HD 744

Other references

Original description

COLLECTIONS FROM EARTH-HOUSES, HUT-CIRCLES, &c. Fragments of rather coarse hard reddish-buff pottery. Est. rim diam. 10.75". Low hollowed neck and shoulder. From a mound underneath the farm of Swandale, Sourin, Rousay.

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

None

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

Not recorded

Method (e.g. excavation)

Not recorded

Place (i.e. location of discovery)

Swandale Farm, Sourin, Rousay, Orkney, Scotland, Northern Europe

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1947

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Grant, Walter G., F.S.A.Scot., 1930 - 1956 (fl.)

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

Image

None