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Description: | Pottery body sherd made of gabbroic clay that weathers over the gabbro outcrop on the Lizard in Cornwall. The exterior surface is bevelled slightly with two finger tip impressions side by side across the width of the sherd. The fabric has inclusions of pale felspars, dark augite and mica and is mid brown on the exterior with a dark brown core and most of the interior missing. This 'mucky' gabbroic fabric and type of decoration are seen on Grooved Ware vessels, dating from c.2900-2400 BC (Henrietta Quinnell, forthcoming).T.G. Manby in Cleal & MacSween (1999) illustrates finger impressions on Grooved Ware vessels from 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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