dish

Round dish used as a hanging decoration ('hoel'). Decoration: woman in centre, long dress, floral design, (black) drawing, other colours: white, brown, green, yellow.

Early: 1949 Late: Period:

Dia: 157 mm

Albania

Hasluck, Margaret

clay fired.clay pottery glaze

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 long-necked Developed Northern type. It is heavy for so small a vessel, but well made. The decoration is in narrow bands of impressed chevrons and cross-hatching on the foot, waist and neck, with a broad band of similar patterns on the belly. The bands are separated by plain, burnished zones. Some of the pattern is in-filled with clay lime, which may be part of an original colouring. The beaker was found at Johnston, Leslie, Aberdeenshire in a cist made of slate slabs and accompanied by two flint scrapers.

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