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Pottery / bowl / portion

Description

About half of an Unstan bowl with a rather irregular profile, reconstructed but lacking sherds from the collar, body and base, of hard grey fabric with black-grey-buff surface, from Ord North, Lairg, Sutherland

Museum reference

X.1995.99.3

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Pottery / bowl / portion

Materials

Pottery

Physical description

Pottery, hard grey fabric with black-grey-buff surface retaining a fine finish in places; rather irregular profile; reconstructed but lacking sherds from collar and part of body and base; three rough irregular deep grooves below the rim, the rest of the collar filled with bold panels of slanting grooves alternating with panels of nearly horizontal jabs

Collection place(s)

Ord North, Lairg, Sutherland, Scotland, Northern Europe

References

Henshall, A.S., The Chambered Cairns of Sutherland, 1992

Links to other web pages

Canmore Site Record

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