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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