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Description: | Pottery body sherd with three parallel lines of single-twisted cord-impressed decoration running across the width of the upper third 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 mid-brown on the exterior and on the interior of the sherd, and throughout the core. This gabbroic fabric and type of decoration are seen on comparable local Grooved Ware vessels, dating from c.2900-2400 BC (Henrietta Quinnell, forthcoming).Anna Brindley in Cleal and MacSween (1999) illustrates similar twisted cord impressed decoration on a Grooved Ware vessel from Durrington Walls in Wiltshire, on page 141, Fig.14.3, No.7.
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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