|
Date: |
|
Description: | Pottery body sherd made of gabbroic clay that weathers over the gabbro outcrop on the Lizard in Cornwall. On the exterior is a linear groove running horizontally across the width of the sherd with a flattened cordon below it. 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, with a reduced dark brown core. This type of decoration and this 'mucky' gabbroic fabric is seen in comparable local Grooved Ware vessels, such as 523.4, 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 |
|
More Like this...
-
POT
Pottery body sherd made of…
-
POT
Pottery body sherd made of…
-
POT
Pottery body sherd made of…
-
POT
Pottery body sherd with a…
-
POT
Pottery body sherd made of…
-
POT
Pottery body sherd with a…
-
POT
Pottery body sherd with a…
-
POT
Pottery body sherd with a…
-
POT
Pottery body sherd with a…
-
POT
Pottery body sherd with two…
|