Wooden bowl found in a peat moss

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This wooden bowl was found in a peat moss at Kirkchrist in Wigtownshire. It was made sometime between 80 and 250 AD.

The large bowl has been shaped by hollowing out a piece of wood to form an oval bowl with two lugs. It was not finished.

Wood was plentiful and early people used it skilfully, employing a range of axes and other tools for different tasks. Wooden objects survive only where conditions are favourable, and few therefore survive to indicate the range of objects made.

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• Online ID: 000-100-000-052-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  W.SFA 8
• Date: Between 80 and 250 AD
  
• Material: Wood; large, oval; lug at each end; incompletely hollowed
  Bowl
  
• Dimensions: 21.75" L x 7.00" deep
  
• What: Bowl
  
• Subject: The kitchen - wooden bowls for cooking or table (NMAS Classification)
  
• Who:
• Where: Scotland, Wigtownshire, Penninghame, Kirkchrist
  
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• Description: Large, incompletely hollowed bowl, from Kirkchrist, Wigtownshire
  
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