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Description: | Pottery body sherd decorated with two incised pendant arcs with an infilled background of sets of parallel incised lines set at right angles to each other, below a border made up of two parallel ridges and grooves. The border runs the circumference of the shoulder of the vessel, which is probably a typical Iron Age jar, S-shaped in profile. This type of pottery is classified as South-West Decorated Ware and the fabric has small inclusions of light felspar and dark augite, suggesting it is 'gabbroic' which is made of clay that weathers over the gabbro stone on the Lizard in Cornwall. The colour of the clay has been oxidised on the exterior to a light orange colour and the interior is reduced to a brown colour. There are darker patches on the exterior suggesting slight burnishing and the interior has blackened areas of residue from what was contained and burnt in the pot. This is an 'Accomplished' type of South-West Decorated Ware, which starts in the Late Iron Age, from the 3rd to the 1st century BC (Carl Thorpe, HE Finds Report).Found in the same area of the field as sherds of other Late Iron Age pottery, such as a sherd of Cordoned Ware (CORN-8CB724), and a Roman brooch of Cornish Type 31 (CORN-8FDAD6). The estimated diameter from the curve of the sherd is about 200 mm, which is typical of Iron Age jars of this type.Threipland (1956) illustrates an Iron Age jar from St. Mawgan with similar decoration where the background is hatched and the 'petals' are empty on page 54, Fig.14, No.1.Christie (1978) illustrates similarly decorated sherds from Carn Euny, one from the fogou and the other from one of the houses, on page 417, Fig.59, No.6, which are dated to Phase IIA (c.3rd-2nd century BC).
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