Pottery Fragment

Ceramic

Trimontium Museum

Name/Title

Pottery Fragment

Entry/Object ID

L.2021.235

Description

Wall and rim fragment of native pot, made from coils of clay. From Eildon Hill. Three parts reconstructed

Use

This would have been used for food preparation and/or storage.

Collection

Live Borders

Acquisition

Accession

ETLMS:20.0001

Made/Created

Time Period

Iron Age

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Continent

Europe

Culture/Tribe

British

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Pottery

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Factory

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Industrial Structures

Nomenclature Class

Structures

Nomenclature Category

Category 01: Built Environment Objects

Other Names and Numbers

Other Numbers

Number Type

Previous Accession Number

Other Number

TT0200

Dimensions

Height

260 mm

Width

80 mm

Length

170 mm

Material

Ceramic

Color

Brown, Black

Condition

Overall Condition

Good

Exhibition

Permanent Exhibition

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Exhibition Caption

Label

This pot was made from coils of clay and used for cooking or storing food. People's diets would have been a mixture of meat, grain, and dairy, with seasonal fruit, nuts and fungi.