Summary

Pot-boiler, a small cooking stone, from Cnoc Coig, Oronsay, 4500 - 4300 BC

Accession Number

X.1997.110 I

Other references

None

Original description

[MOS List, II.3.2, Movement of People, Goods and Ideas, changed by AS on 1 July 1998]. Case Q01: Mesolithic movements. The seasonal round - evidence from Oronsay. Cooking gear. [One of] Cooking stones, Cnoc Coig. 6000 - 3500 BC. PK note: Provisional 1997 register number allocated to MOS object. SD note, July 1999: Edited from SCRAN full data set. [MoS description] Moving things, travelling people. First moves. Evidence from Oronsay. Cooking. (8) Cooking stones, Cnoc Coig. 6000 - 3500 BC. [Small hot stones were placed as 'pot-boilers' into containers of liquid]. [Scran caption] These small cooking stones were found during excavations at Cnoc Coig on Oronsay in the Inner Hebrides. They date from between 4500 and 4300 BC. The stones are natural beach cobbles or pebbles. They show signs of burning and have cracked from contact with cold liquid. They had probably been dropped into an animal skin containing water. Cooking stones were used throughout prehistory and into the Historic period as a simple device in cooking. They were used in various ways but were always heated first. Date: Between 4500 and 4300 BC. Material: Stone.

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)

Cnoc Coig, Oronsay, Argyll, Scotland, Northern Europe

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1997

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Not recorded

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Not recorded

Image

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