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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 two applied cordons running vertically up the exterior of the sherd which have been interrupted obliquely by an impressed chevron incorporating a finger tip impression which is above a finger nail impression at the bottom edge of the sherd. The fabric has inclusions of pale felspars, dark augite and mica and is an orangey-brown colour on the exterior and a mid-brown colour on the interior of the sherd. This 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 Grooved Ware vessels from Willington in Derbyshire and Burton Agnes and Garton Slack in Yorkshire, on page 65, Fig.6.4, Nos.1-3.
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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