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Description: | Pottery rim sherd with bevelled everted rim, decorated with fine comb-impressed dashed lines in bands of six, delineated by a plain band between. The core of the sherd has been oxidised to a light brown colour and the exterior and interior surfaces to a more orangey-brown colour. The exterior surface has been sooted and still has carbonised remains extant. The fabric looks, from microscopic investigation, to have mica, white feldspar, quartz sands and killas inclusions, which is typical of the local beaker wares made during the Early Bronze Age in Cornwall. Comparable beaker vessels with similar inclusions (Parker Pearson, 1990, p.11) and decoration have been found at sites in Penwith, such as Trevedra and Praa Sands, illustrated in Clarke's corpus, 1970, pp.378-9, Nos.814 & 820. Beaker Period c.2500-1700 cal BC, but the current dating for Beakers from Cornwall is c.2100-1700 cal BC (Andy Jones pers comm).
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