| Title: |
Note on a Pottery Mask and Sherds of Mediaeval Pottery found at the Bass of Inverurie, with some particulars of the Bass.
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| Issue: |
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 53 |
| Series: |
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
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| Volume: |
53
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| Number of Pages: |
239 |
| Page Start/End: |
46 - 50 |
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| Licence Type: |
ADS Terms of Use and Access
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| Publication Type: |
Journal
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| Abstract: |
The sherds were found while digging in an extension of the cemetery and consist of a bearded mask, a segment of the base of a large jug, and a portion of the lip of a similar vessel. The mask appears to have been fairly common on pitchers of the fourteenth century. The second piece of pottery, the segment of the base of a large jar, shows a continuous row of impressed thumb-marks around its edge, and by this feature tends to confirm the fourteenth-century date of the pottery mask. The third object is a portion of the lip of a pitcher of a light-red body coated with a thick lead glaze of deep-green colour and may be of 12th or 13 century. The Bass is a mound, in shape a truncated cone, about 50 feet in height, which occupies a strong position on the right bank of the Ury, close to the southern end of the royal burgh of Inverurie and is classified as a mount-and-bailey castle of Norman type. |
| Year of Publication: |
1918
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| Subjects / Periods: |
| Mound (Auto Detected Subject) |
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| 13 Century (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| Lead Glaze (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Fourteenth Century (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| Vessel (Auto Detected Subject) |
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CEMETERY
(Monument Type England)
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| Sherds (Auto Detected Subject) |
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SHERD
(Object England)
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| Jug (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Mountandbailey Castle (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Jar (Auto Detected Subject) |
| 12th (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| Mediaeval Pottery (Auto Detected Subject) |
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| Source: |
ADS Archive
(ADS Archive)
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| Created Date: |
09 Oct 2013 |
