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Description: | Pottery body sherd made of gabbroic clay that weathers over the gabbro outcrop on the Lizard in Cornwall. There is a single thick applied cordon running horizontally across the width of the exterior of the sherd. The cordon has three finger tip impressions along it, defining three alternating square protrusions. The fabric has inclusions of pale felspars, dark augite and mica and is orangey-brown on the exterior and mid-brown on the interior of the sherd. 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 tip impressions on a Grooved Ware vessel from Burton Agnes in Yorkshire, on page 65, Fig.6.4, No.1.Alison Sheridan in Cleal & MacSween (1999) illustrates finger tip impressions on a cordon on a Grooved Ware vessel from the Links of Noltland, Westray in Orkney, on page 117, Fig.12.4, No.1.
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