shoes

Two black leather shoes, each one decorated with a large pompom and orange button, soles decorated with white metal studs. Hasluck: 'worn by Albanian women'.

L: 304 mm H: 110 mm W: 114 mm

Hasluck, Margaret

leather metal iron wool laquer

In Europe about 3000-1700BC, from the late Neolithic into the Bronze Age, flat-based, finely made pots, known as beakers, were widespread. They have an S- or Z-shaped profile, and are decorated with bands of fine incised geometric pattern. In NE Scotland the Northern beaker types are associated with the introduction of metal working and are often found in individual cist burials, both probably related to settlement of people from Europe. Later beakers were made locally, and often have archaic or idiosyncratic features. This beaker is a Final Northern type, with a broad body and a short everted neck. It is remarkably red in colour and is finely decorated on the lower body, belly and neck with bands of comb-impressed chevrons, zig-zags, verticals and horizontal lines, which are separated by plain smoothed areas. This cist was found during gravel digging on a farm at Newlands, Oyne Aberdeenshire in 1935, and another was found nearby. This cist contained the skeleton of an adult male, a fine Final Northern beaker, two stone archer's wrist-guards, a barbed and tanged flint arrowhead, two flint knives, two flakes, a possible scraper and two others and some charcoal. The contents of this cist, particularly the wrist-guards and the style of the beaker, are typical of a Bronze Age archer's burial.

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