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Description: | Pottery body sherd decorated with incised oblique lines within curved chevrons, running obliquely under a border made up of three parallel incised lines. The border runs the circumference of the shoulder of the vessel, which is probably a typical Iron Age jar, S-shaped in profile. The surface has also been burnished slightly.The fabric looks like it is probably made from gabbroic clay, as there are light felspar inclusions and dark augite inclusions. The colour of the clay has been oxidised on the exterior to a light orange colour and the interior is slightly more buff to light brown colour.The decoration is typical of what is known locally as Southwest Decorated Ware, which dates from the 3rd-1st century BC.Threipland (1956) illustrates an Iron Age jar from St. Mawgan with similar decoration where the background is hatched and the 'petals' are empty on page 54, Fig.14, No.1.Miles (1977) illustrates similarly decorated 'Cornish' La Tene period (4th-1st century BC) jars from Killibury on page 102 & 104, Figs.40-41, Nos.1 & 14.Christie (1978) illustrates similarly decorated sherds froom Carn Euny, one from the fogou and the other from one of the houses, on page 417, Fig.59, Nos.6-7, which are dated to Phase IIA (c.3rd-2nd century BC).
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