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Description: | Pottery rim sherd made of gabbroic clay that weathers over the gabbro outcrop on the Lizard in Cornwall. There are two recesses or 'nicks' on the upper surface of the rim with fingernail impressions within them, alternating with three pyramidal projections, standing proud from the surface of the rim. Below the rim is a horizontal groove defined by a rib below it, which appears to be internal and corresponds to other Grooved Ware vessels, particularly of the Woodlands style (Manby, 1999, 61). The fabric has inclusions of pale felspars, dark augite and mica and is mid-brown on the exterior and orangey-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 rim of a Grooved Ware vessel from Durrington Walls in Wiltshire, on page 141, Fig.14.3, No.8.T.G. Manby in Cleal & MacSween (1999) illustrates a similarly decorated rim of a Grooved Ware vessel from Garton Slack in Yorkshire, on page 63, Fig.6.3, No.4.
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