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Description: | Pottery body sherd with a single groove running horizontally across the width of the sherd, at the upper edge of the exterior. 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 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 is seen on Grooved Ware vessels, dating from c.2900-2400 BC (Henrietta Quinnell, forthcoming).T.G. Manby in Cleal and MacSween (1999) illustrates similarly spaced out grooves on a Grooved Ware vessel from Willington in Derbyshire, on page 63, Fig.6.3, No.6.
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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