| Inscription Content | 'Looking at the shape of the beaker, and the styles described in “Beakers and Bodies in north-east Scotland” by Neil Curtis and Neil Wilkin, the evidence would suggest that this beaker was constructed in the “Elongated/Cupped Neck” style, according to illustrations in Figure 5.5 and details in Table 5.5. They are described as “hav[ing] a neck depth equivalent to as much as half of their overall height…the group features vessels with both long, straight and cupped (constricted) necks” (Table 5.5). That table also lists that the elongated/cupped neck style of beaker was not used until 2200 BC. In addition, Alexander Thomson’s notes from the discovery record that the beaker (plus one other) were recovered from a “long cist” bent at the middle. He notes that the lower portion was oriented from the northeast to the southwest. This detail further supports the time period the beaker was produced. The burials cupped neck beakers are found in, also according to Table 5.5, are typically arranged northeast to southwest and at the most will contain two beakers'. Mary Simmons (Mlitt Museum Studies) 28th January 2023. |
| Thomson, A, 1819, MS Catalogue, p12-18; Wilson, D, 1860, Prehistoric Annals of Scotland, Vol I, p420 (illustrated p419); Wilson, D, in PSAS 12, p353; Crichton Mitchell, M E, 1934, PSAS 68, p179, 23; Clarke, D L, 1970, Beaker Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland, Cambridge University Press, No 1441 |