Pot

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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