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Description: | Pottery body sherd with a single thick applied cordon running horizontally across the width of the exterior of the sherd, defined by a groove below it. The cordon is interrupted by a finger tip and nail impression half way along it, and a pinched area to the left of that where two finger-tips have come together. 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. This gabbroic fabric and type of decoration are seen on Grooved Ware vessels, dating from c.2900-2400 BC (Henrietta Quinnell, forthcoming).This sherd is comparable to two others with similar decoration and fabric, previously recorded, 529A.2 and 529C.18, which were both found in the same area of the field.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 cordons on Grooved Ware vessels from the Links of Noltland, Westray in Orkney, on page 117, Fig.12.4, Nos.1 & 3b.
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