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Description: | Pottery body sherd with a single finger tip and nail impression near the centre of the exterior of the sherd. 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 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).Alison Sheridan in Cleal & MacSween (1999) illustrates finger tip impressions on a Grooved Ware vessel from the Links of Noltland, Westray in Orkney, on page 117, Fig.12.4, No.3b.
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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