Cup. A small earthenware cup. The base is about half the size of the opening, and the body flares out dramatically at the middle producing a hexagonal profile. The sides are decorated with incised lines making a pattern of rough diamonds, alternately filled with diagonal lines going one way and another.

ABDUA:19743

Decorated with a rough diamond-like pattern, fine incised lines running in opposite directions, giving a basket-like or woven impression. Small hole pierced through the shoulder. This cup was found in a collared urn (ABDUA: 19742) by Leslie Mutch, the 9 year old son of Mr and Mrs Mutch who farmed the Mains of Carnousie. Other contents of the urn included a broken bead or toggle (ABDUA: 14787), some pieces of charcoal and fragments of human bone.

Early: -1800 Late: -600 Period: MBA LBA

clay fired clay pottery, handbuilt fired, H: 70 mm

Europe, Scotland, North East Scotland, Carnousie 1 Turriff Aberdeenshire

Field Collector: Mutch,L.G Dr
Field Collection Date: 02/05/1966

ABDUA:14787 ABDUA:19742

Physical Object

Acquisition Source: Hunter, G Dr

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