Pot, knife and fire-steel

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This pot, of a type known as a beaker, the flint knife and the flint fire-steel (also known as a strike-a-light) were found in a grave at Newmill in Perthshire. The pot and type of grave suggest that the person buried may have been from the Netherlands.

The exterior of the pot was decorated with rows of chevrons made with a pointed tool or spatula pressed at an angle into the clay. The flint knife had been set into a haft and used to cut soft material.

The objects were found in a grave set within a penannular ring ditch. The body, which did not survive, had been placed in a coffin or container or organic material, set in a bath-shaped grave pit. The style of the grave resembles Dutch examples.

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• Online ID: 000-190-004-049-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  X.1997.765
• Date: 2500 - 2050 BC
  Between 2500 and 2050 BC
  
• Material: Ceramic
  Beaker
  
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• What: Beaker
  
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• Where: Netherlands
  Scotland, Newmill
  
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• Description: Beaker with all over ornamentation, from a Dutch style grave at Newmill, 2500 - 2050 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 82, 174, 268. 
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