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This pottery cup was found in a cist at Balmuick Farm at Comrie in Perthshire. It looks as if it was a pottery copy of the prestigious handled cups found in contemporary southern England, especially the gold cup from from Rillaton in Cornwall.

When found the handled cup was on its side, and contained a few fragments of bone.

The Scottish elite during the second millennium B.C. adopted fashions current in southern England.

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• Online ID: 000-100-102-431-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  X.EH 8
• Date: 1700 - 1450 BC
  Between 1700 and 1450 BC
  
• Material: Ceramic; handled; ornamented with a series of circular incised bands on the lip, sides and base
  Pottery / cup
  
• Dimensions: 6.00" H; base 6.25" x 5.63" D
  
• What: Pottery / cup
  
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• Where: Scotland, Perthshire, Comrie, Balmuick Farm
  
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• Description: Handled cup resembling gold Rillaton cup, found in a short cist at Balmuick Farm, Comrie, Perthshire, Bronze Age, 1700 - 1450 BC
  
• 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 116, 118, 283. 
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