Summary

Pottery rim sherd, from Benegirth, Orbister, Northmaven, Shetland

Accession Number

X.HR 1217

Other references

Original description

COLLECTIONS FROM REFUSE HEAPS. Sherd with sharply everted rim, an applied band with deep slanting incisions in the angle between lip and body; est. diam. 9", .3" thick; hard brown-black ware. From Benegirth, Orbister, Northmaven, Shetland.

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)

Benegirth, Orbister, Northmaven, Shetland, Scotland, Northern Europe

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1960

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Not recorded

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

Image

None