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From West Lothian and Aberdeenshire

Beakers
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Beakers are a range of early pottery, including coarse jars and fine pots for drinking. These examples were found at Bathgate in West Lothian and in Aberdeenshire. They are of a style popular in Continental Europe from around 2500 BC.

Both beakers are decorated all over their exterior surfaces with closely-spaced horizontal lines of tightly twisted cord impressions.

Beaker pottery was adopted as a prestigious Continental novelty from around 2500 BC along with other novelties. The finest beakers are usually found in burials, where they were deposited, probably full, as gifts to accompany the deceased to the afterlife.

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