Archaeology Notes

Event ID 671461

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/671461

NJ90NW 58 c. 946 067.

A stone cup of steatite, 3.7/16" in external diameter across the mouth, 2 7/8" across the base and 2 1/2" high, decorated with a band of incised vertical lines between single marginal lines just under the lip, and with partially perforated handle, was found in a garden in Park Street, Aberdeen in 1880.

Donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in 1932 by Lady Binning, Tynninghame House, East Lothian.

Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1932 (Donations)

The accession number of this stone cup in the Royal Museum of Scotland is NMS: AQ 99.

Information from RCAHMS (JRS) 9 May 1997.