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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 parallel linear grooves running obliquely across the width of the sherd. The fabric has inclusions of pale felspars, dark augite and mica and is orangey-brown on the exterior and the interior of the sherd, with a 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).Anna Brindley in Cleal & MacSween (1999) illustrates similar decoration on a Grooved Ware vessel from Puddlehill in Bedfordshire, on page 140, Fig.14.2, No.14.
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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