Site: 40 and 44 High Street, Dunbar
County: East Lothian
Present location: National Museums Scotland?

Preservation type: mineralised
Dimensions: not given
Material: wool?
Technique: woven
Structure: uncertain

Warp/weft can be identified: no

	System A	System B
Spin direction	Z-spun singles	Z-spun singles
Twist angle (deg)	Uncertain	Uncertain
Diameter	Uncertain	Uncertain
Ends/cm	7	5

Description: ‘crumpled’ textile remains found along a sword (SF 9) and iron pin (SF 2/12). The textile fibres were hollow casts but the appearance and diameter range (20-37 microns) suggests wool.

Textile finish: none stated

Selvedge: not present

Starting border: not present

Ending border: not present

Damage/Wear: none stated

Additions/Alterations: none stated

Textile use: Walton Rogers suggested that the textile remains represent a ‘coarse’ woven garment, such as a cloak, that was fastened with an iron pin

Context: Cist burial with two nearly complete individuals. This textile is associated with Burial 1037 (adult, indeterminate sex).

Dating: radiocarbon dates from a sample of human bone gave a date range of 100 BCE to 70 CE (95% confidence).

Reference:
Walton Rogers, P. 2016. Textiles from the Iron Age cist grave, in Roy, M., Hunter, F., Walton Rogers, P., Ives, R., Evans, J., Pashley, V., Roberts, J., Hall, D. An Iron Age burial with weapons, on a site with evidence of medieval and post-medieval occupation from Dunbar, East Lothian. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 145, pp. 191–192. doi: 10.9750/PSAS.145.177.212.

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