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Description: | Pottery body sherd made of gabbroic clay that weathers over the gabbro outcrop on the Lizard in Cornwall. There appears to be an eroded applied cordon running horizontally across the width of the sherd, which can be seen in profile where the original join has since fractured. The fabric has inclusions of pale felspars, dark augite and mica and is mid-brown on the exterior and interior of the sherd with a dark brown core. This 'mucky' gabbroic fabric and 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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