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Description: | Pottery body sherd with a single groove running horizontally across the width of the exterior of the sherd with a slight curvature, but this may be due to erosion or damage. The sherd is made of gabbroic clay that weathers over the gabbro outcrop on the Lizard in Cornwall. The fabric has large inclusions of pale felspars, and smaller inclusions of dark augite and mica. The colour of the fabric is orangey-brown on the exterior and mid-brown on the interior of the sherd, with a dark brown core. 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 slightly curved grooves on a Grooved Ware vessel, from Stenness in Orkney, on page 142, Fig.14.4, No.10.
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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