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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 incised groove (where the number 58 is marked on the image) defined by a slight ridge below it on the exeterior of the sherd. The fabric has inclusions of pale felspars, dark augite and mica and is mid-brown on the exterior and dark brown with some black residue on the interior of the sherd. This 'mucky' gabbroic fabric and 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 Long Point, Clacton in Essex, on page 141, Fig.14.3, Nos.13-14.
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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