Note on a Pottery Mask and Sherds of Mediaeval Pottery found at the Bass of Inverurie, with some particulars of the Bass

Alexander O Curle (Author)


Keywords:
Mound, Lead Glaze, Vessel, Cemetery, Sherds, Pottery, Jug, Mountandbailey Castle, Jar, Mediaeval Pottery
Period(s):
Early Medieval, 13 Century, Fourteenth Century, 12th

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.

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Published
30-11-1919
How to Cite
Curle, A. O. (1919). Note on a Pottery Mask and Sherds of Mediaeval Pottery found at the Bass of Inverurie, with some particulars of the Bass. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 53, 46–50. https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.053.46.50
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