Find Spot record 2277 - ACHMORE

NB32NW 6 318 292

NB 318 291 An upturned pottery vessel was found about 100m to the E of the Achmore stone circle; it had been only slightly damaged by a peat iron during peat cutting. On examination no trace of any related cut or other archaeological feature could be found in the peat section. The vessel was removed intact within a block of peat which was excavated in the AOC (Scotland) Ltd conservation laboratories to reveal a fragmented pot with a flat bottom, everted lip and bulbous section. The vessel is hand-made, heavily burnished, and shows signs of being wrapped in grass while wet. Standing c 0.25m high, the pot has a rim diameter of 0.18m and when reconstructed was shown to be nearly complete except for 50mm of rim removed by the peat iron.
A full report on this vessel, with illustrations, will be made in due course.
Sponsors: Historic Scotland, Uig Landscape Survey, Edinburgh University Archaeology Department.
C Burgess, S Gilmour, M R and G R Curtis 1996

C, M R and G R, and S Burgess,, 1996, Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 105 (Bibliographic reference). SWE38148.