Willow egg-collecting basket
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Woven by Jane Wilkinson
Purchased from Jane Wilkinson
Museum number 2009-23
The evidence for the use of plants at Morton is fairly slim - a few burnt hazelnuts and grains of pollen from floatation. On waterlogged sites elsewhere, evidence for baskets has been found. This type would have been used for collecting seabirds' eggs.
