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Description: | Pottery body sherd made of gabbroic clay that weathers over the gabbro outcrop on the Lizard in Cornwall. There are three finger nail impressions running in a row horizontally across the exterior of the sherd. The fabric has inclusions of pale felspars, dark augite and mica and is mid-brown on the exterior and the interior of the sherd with a reduced 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).T.G. Manby in Cleal & MacSween (1999) illustrates similar decoration on 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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