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This pot was found in a cist burial at Skateraw in East Lothian. It is an example of finely made beaker pottery dating between 2300 and 1700 BC. It probably contained offerings of drink.

The pot has three zones of decoration. At the base of the rim zone decoration there is a hulled barley impression.

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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• Online ID: 000-100-035-076-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  X.EG 105
• Date: 1000 - 500 BC
  Between 2300 and 1700 BC
  
• Material: Ceramic, red buff; decoration in three zones separated by two plain bands; hulled barley impression
  Pottery / beaker
  
• Dimensions: 9.50" H
  
• What: Pottery / beaker
  
• Subject:
• Who: D.V. Clarke (Excavator)
  Dr J. Close-Brooks (Excavator)
  
• Where: Scotland, East Lothian, Dunbar, Skateraw
  
• Event:
• Description: Beaker of red buff ware with decoration in three zones and a hulled barley impression, from Skateraw, Bronze Age
  
• References:
  • Clarke, D.V., Cowie, T.G., & Foxon, Andrew (eds). Symbols of power at the time of Stonehenge. Edinburgh: National Museums of Antiquities of Scotland, 1985, pp 203, 290. 
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