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Pottery sherd

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From Glenluce Sands, Wigtownshire

Postcard of Pottery sherd.
000-100-033-481-C
© National Museums Scotland

Pottery sherd

This pottery sherd was found at Glenluce Sands in Wigtownshire. It has faint impressions of cloth, one of the earliest pieces of evidence for the use of woven textiles in Scotland. The pot was made between 3000 and 2250 BC.

The textile impressions are on the outer face of the sherd.

From the time of the earliest hunters and gatherers, communities understood the properties of a wide range of fibres. The first textiles were made from plant fibres such as flax or grasses. Using sheep for their wool came later, about 4500 years ago.


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Online ID: 000-100-033-481-C
Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
Project: 0098: National Museums Scotland
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Ref: National Museums Scotland  X.BHA 344
Date: Between 3000 and 2250 BC
Material: Ceramic, lumpy brown, large grits; broken along building ring; textile impression on outer surface
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What: Pottery / sherd
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Where: Scotland, Wigtownshire, Stoneykirk, Glenluce Sands
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Description: Sherd of lumpy brown pottery with textile impression on outer surface, from Glenluce Sands
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