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Description: | Base missing. There was evidence of a third urn and possibly a fourth. Was found along with ABDUA 19724
"Urns were the dominant type of pottery used in burials, usually of a cremated body, during the early Bronze Age, about 1450-1250BC. They are found both in cemeteries and as secondary burials in barrows, often with the base uppermost, and may be accompanied by other grave goods. An urn is tall with a flat, often very narrow base, and may be decorated. There are two separate pottery traditions, collared and cordened urns. This large cordoned urn is double ridged, one cordon surrounding the belly of the notably convex body, the other at the base of the collar area, which is decorated with roughly executed, cord-impressed chevrons and three lines around the exterior rim. The rim has an internal bevel and is decorated with diagonal impressions. The base of the vessel is missing. The urn was found at Lowhillside, Bourtie, Aberdeenshire inverted over the cremated remains of a skeleton and some flints. There were probably two other cremation burials here; the base of a similar urn was found next to this one and indications of another nearby. Urns were frequently placed with the base up, over the cremated remains and, like this one, often have had the base removed by ploughing at a much later period."
Author: Feilden,Rosemary Date: 1999 Purpose: SCRAN
Field collector: McDonald, George Lockhart, R D | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1800 BC-600 BC; MBA LBA | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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