Grinding pot, Stromness Museum, Stromness, Mainland, Orkney
Pot used to grind ochre, with traces of red ochre in the hollow, which was mixed with fat to make a paint to decorate stones, pots, skin and clothes, from Skara Brae, a Neolithic village occupied 3180-2500 BC consisting of 9 stone houses and a workshop linked by passages, in Stromness Museum, in Stromness, Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. Picture by Manuel Cohen
Picture No
14149974
Media ID
46163759
Size
8268px x 5719px
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Credit
Photographer
Source
Manuel Cohen
Date
2025
