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Description: | Pottery body sherd with an abraded cordon or lug in the centre of the exterior of the sherd. The ovoid protrusion may be a lug but it seems to extend in on direction, in an arc, suggesting it is more likely an applied cordon. 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 mid-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).T.G. Manby in Cleal & MacSween (1999) illustrates an arched cordon on a Grooved Ware vessel from Willington in Derbyshire, on page 65, Fig.6.4, No.2.
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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