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Description: | Pottery rim sherd with flattened rim, creating a slightly everted edge or lip.
The core of the sherd has been oxidised to an light brown colour and the surface to a more orangey-brown colour. The fabric looks, from microscopic investigation, to have mica, white feldspar, quartz and slate inclusions, which is typical of the grass-marked wares found during the early medieval period in Cornwall.
There is no evidence of grass-marking on this particular sherd but it was found in the same field as many other grass-marked pottery sherds.
The shape of the rim make it comparable to grass-marked to cooking vessels found during the Gwithian excavations in Cornwall, soon to be published, with grass-marked sherds recently carbon dated to c.AD 650-780 (Jacky Nowakowski, pers comm). There is also evidence that grass-marked wares continue to be manufactured into the 9th century AD.
7th-9th century AD | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Tyacke, Anna - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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