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Description: | Pottery body sherd with a pair of parallel grooves running horizontally across the width of the exterior of the sherd, and below this pair, at an oblique angle to these, about seven fine parallel grooves. 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 '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 similarly decorated Grooved Ware vessel from Durrington Walls in Wiltshire, on page 141, Fig.14.3, No.9.
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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