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.

ABDUA:19738

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.

Field Collection Date: 1934

Early: -2400 Late: -1800 Period: EBA

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

Physical Object

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