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Description: | Pottery body sherd with a central groove running horizontally across the width of the sherd, defined by a damaged and flattened cordon with two oblique depressions, either side of a square protrusion, above the groove and five oblique finger nail impressions below the groove, on the exterior of the sherd. The sherd is made of gabbroic clay that weathers over the gabbro outcrop on the Lizard in Cornwall. The fabric has inclusions of pale felspars, dark augite and mica and is orangey-brown to mid-brown throughout 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).Anna Brindley in Cleal & MacSween (1999) illustrates a similar pattern on a Grooved Ware vessel from Durington Walls in Wiltshire, on page 141, Fig.14.3, No.12.
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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