Beaker. A small earthenware cup, with three incised horizontal lines below the rim and two rows of diamonds filled with vertical lines on the body.

Title

Beaker. A small earthenware cup, with three incised horizontal lines below the rim and two rows of diamonds filled with vertical lines on the body.

Identifier

ABDUA:19694

Description

Incised decoration: on body - lozenges & vertical lines; on rim - 3 bands; on base - 3 bands. Found in a short stone cist, with a mass of brown fibrous material and incomplete skeleton, ABDUA: 14232. Cist was found in gravel bank on the farm of Blackhill, Tyrie, Aberdeenshire, by Mr Milne, in 1905.

Date

Early: -2400 Late: -1800 Period: LNEO EBA

Format

clay fired clay pottery, Thrown & fired, H: 125 mm Dia(rim): 123 mm

Coverage

Europe, Scotland, North East Scotland, Blackhill Tyrie Aberdeenshire

Source

Field Collection Date: 1905

Type

Physical Object

Provenance

Acquisition Source: Saltoun Lord (Fraserburgh)

UUID

3b57e5a4-1f59-4ebd-aec9-03ee2a33a10c

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