Ceramic beaker. A pot which slightly flares out at the middle, before narrowing at the neck and flaring out toward the rim. It is decorated with incised vertical and horizontal lines, cross hatching and large triangles pointing upward containing lines and cross hatching.

Title

Ceramic beaker. A pot which slightly flares out at the middle, before narrowing at the neck and flaring out toward the rim. It is decorated with incised vertical and horizontal lines, cross hatching and large triangles pointing upward containing lines and cross hatching.

Identifier

ABDUA:19738

Description

Final Northern type, of medium size with very short neck. Burnished red exterior, body decorated symmetrically above and below a plain band around the belly with a pattern of cross-hatching which supports triangles, in-filled alternately with cross-hatching and V-shaped lines. The neck is cross-hatched, and inside the rim it is incised with a fine fringed motif. The beaker was found in an otherwise empty cist at Mill Farm, Rathen, Aberdeenshire.

Date

Early: -2400 Late: -1800 Period: EBA

Format

clay fired clay pottery, handbuilt, H: 178 mm Dia(rim): 151 mm

Coverage

Europe, Scotland, North East Scotland, Mill Farm Rathen Aberdeenshire

Source

Field Collection Date: 1934

Type

Physical Object

UUID

ea1bf6ea-d983-4d04-b254-d16cefed9f69

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