Object: Miniature Food VesselDate: Bronze AgeDescription: A very small ‘Yorkshire vase’ type vessel. 86mm high, maximum diameter 82 mm. It hasfour perforated lugs and is decorated with an impressed cord design. This type of vessel is widespreadthroughout Bronze Age...
Object: Food VesselDate: Bronze AgeDescription: Restored food vessel 125mm x 110mm. Impressed with cord decoration. The vessel wasplaced upside down in the cist.Origin: From a cist at Kildavanan, discovered by farmer Mr Lochhead in 1952 while ploughing.Excavated in...
Object: Food vesselDate: Bronze AgeDescription: Food vessel of the ‘Yorkshire Vase Type’ dating from around 2000 B.C. Decorated all overwith line and dot patterns and with three lugs. Height 162mm and 160mm diameter at the mouth. Foundalmost intact with one lug broken...
Object: Food vessel Date: Bronze Age Description: Coil-built pot of a very friable local clay with large grains of quartz and schist. It is decorated all over using a comb and the flat end of a stick or a bone. It is fired to a pinkish-red colour. The pot was...
Object: Axe Mould Date: Bronze Age Description: Two fragments of a clay mould for the production of socketed axes. When complete this mould would have been a two-piece form, which could be reused. The mould would have produced a wide-splayed axe with a ribbed design,...
Object: Spacer-Plate Necklace Date: Bronze Age Description: Spacer-plate necklace made from Whitby jet with the addition of some lignite beads. It was found in one of 3 stone cists on the island of Inchmarnock. It had been buried with a young woman, who was given the...