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Description: | Pottery rim sherd made of gabbroic clay that weathers over the gabbro outcrop on the Lizard in Cornwall. There is a wide groove on the interior surface of the rim within two everted ribs and the upper surface of the rim has been moulded and 'wiped' using a finger tip. This sort of internal groove and rib below the rim corresponds to those on 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 dark brown on the interior of the sherd. This 'mucky' gabbroic fabric and type of decoration is seen on Grooved Ware vessels, dating from c.2900-2400 BC (Henrietta Quinnell, forthcoming).T.G. Manby in Cleal & MacSween (1999) illustrates a similar rim of a Grooved Ware vessel from Willington in Derbyshire, on page 65, Fig.6.4, No.2.
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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