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Ceramic pot with flint scrapers, a knife and flakes

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From Ballymichael, Arran

Ceramic pot with flint scrapers, a knife and flakes
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This ceramic pot was found at Ballymichael on Arran. It was used to hold cremated remains, and the flint scrapers, knife and flakes included as grave goods. The burial dates from between 2000 and 1500 BC.

The undecorated urn has a well-defined rim. The scrapers, knife and flakes appear to have been burnt.

By around 1750 BC, in mainland Scotland, cremation had become the favoured funerary custom. Grave goods were rare, and generally modest. Sometimes they were kept separate from the pyre, but in other cases, as here, they were burnt with the body.

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