Summary

Pottery sherd, from South Haven, Fair Isle, Shetland

Accession Number

X.HD 853

Other references

Original description

COLLECTIONS FROM EARTH-HOUSES, HUT-CIRCLES, &c. Sherd of rough but thin sandy hand-made pottery, with dirty buff surfaces, found on the site of a promontory fort, South Haven, Fair Isle.

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

Fair Isle Bird Observatory Trust

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

Not recorded

Method (e.g. excavation)

Not recorded

Place (i.e. location of discovery)

South Haven, Fair Isle, Shetland, Scotland, Northern Europe

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1950

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Not recorded

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

Image

None