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This ceramic pot was found in a cist burial at Mount Stuart on Bute in the Inner Hebrides. The pot originally held an offering of food or drink, and was buried along with a jet necklace, a small fragment of bronze, a pin and an awl.

The pot is richly decorated on its exterior. Moulded ridges divide its surface into three zones. Much of the decoration was made with a rectangular-toothed comb.

From around 2500 BC, individual burial, usually in a cist, a rectangular stone box-shaped grave, became popular over much of Scotland. In most cases, the only item included was a pot, but occasionally, as here, rich objects were also placed with the dead.

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• Online ID: 000-100-035-704-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  X.EQ 100
• Date: Between 2050 and 1700 BC
  
• Material: Ceramic; irregular impressed lines
  Pottery / food vessel
  
• Dimensions: 7.00" x 7.00"
  
• What: Pottery / food vessel
  
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• Where: Scotland, Bute, Isle of Bute, Mountstuart
  
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• Description: Food vessel with irregular impressed lines, from Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute
  
• 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, p 289. 
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