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Description: | Pottery rim sherd with a flat-topped rim that is slightly expanded externally. There are two parallel vertical finger nail impression on the exterior of the sherd, at right angles to the edge of the rim, and some applied decoration at an oblique angle below them. 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).A rim, 529C.19, with similar profile, decoration and fabric was found in the same area of field.T.G. Manby in Cleal & MacSween (1999) illustrates a flat-topped rim, finger nail impressions and applied decoration on Grooved Ware vessels from Burton Agnes in Yorkshire and Willington in Derbyshire, on page 65, Fig.6.4, Nos.1-2.Anna Brindley in Cleal & MacSween (1999) illustrates a similar flat-topped rim and applied decoration on a Grooved Ware vessel from North Carnaby Temple in Yorkshire, on page 141, Fig.14.3, No.4.
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