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Description: | Pottery body sherd made of gabbroic clay that weathers over the gabbro outcrop on the Lizard in Cornwall. There are two horizontal grooves parallel to the upper edge defining thicker bands between them on the exterior of the sherd. The grooves could also be oblique and part of larger chevrons, as it is difficult to tell from the eroded interior of the sherd which way the pot was coiled. The fabric has fine inclusions of pale felspars and dark augite and is orangey-brown throughout. This type of decoration is seen on Grooved Ware vessels, dating from c.2900-2400 BC (Henrietta Quinnell, forthcoming).Anna Brindley in Cleal & MacSween (1999) illustrates similarly decorated Grooved Ware vessels from Durrington Walls in Wiltshire, on page 141, Fig.14.3, Nos.8, 11 & 12.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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