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Description: | Pottery rim sherd made of gabbroic clay that weathers over the gabbro outcrop on the Lizard in Cornwall. The exterior of the sherd has two finger nail impressions at right angles to each other and three finger nail impressions fanning out from the point where the groove meets the edge of the rim. The fabric has inclusions of pale felspars, dark augite and mica and is orangey-brown on the exterior and mid-brown on the interior of the sherd. 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 a similarly decorated Grooved Ware vessel from Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire, on page 141, Fig.14.3, No.3.
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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