Wooden bowl found in a peat moss

This wooden bowl was found in a peat moss at Airds at Ness in Shetland. It was carved out of a solid piece of driftwood, sometime between 420 and 100 BC. Even though few trees grew in the Northern Isles, driftwood provided the raw material for objects.

The bowl is unfinished and clearly shows the marks from the tools used to carve it from the driftwood.

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:	000-100-000-053-C
Image Rights Holder:	National Museums Scotland
Project:	0098: National Museums Scotland Project description \| View all records in project
Ref:	National Museums Scotland W.SFA 13
Date:	Between 420 and 100 BC
Material:	Wood
Dimensions:	9.50" x 8.25"
What:	Bowl
Subject:	The kitchen - wooden bowls for cooking or table (NMAS Classification)
Who:
Where:	Scotland, Ross and Cromarty, Lewis, Ness, Airds
Event:
Description:	Unfinished carved wooden bowl from a moss at Airds, Ness, Lewis
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