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Description: | Pottery shoulder sherd with a plain exterior apart from an applied cordon, semi-circular in profile, at the neck of the vessel. The cordon would have run around the circumference of the vessel, between the shoulder and neck, of a typical Iron Age jar, S-shaped in profile. This pottery is classified as 'Cordoned 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 interior to a light orange colour and the exterior is reduced to a darker brown colour. There are darker patches on the exterior suggesting slight burnishing. Local Cordoned Ware that was well made and high fired, like this example, dated from the Late Iron Age to the early Romano-British period, c.1st century BC to 1st century AD.Found in the same area of the field as sherds of other Late Iron Age pottery, such as a sherd of South-West Decorated Ware (CORN-895647), and a Roman brooch of Cornish Type 31 (CORN-8FDAD6). The estimated diameter from the curve of the sherd is about 260 mm, which is typical of Iron Age jars of this type.Threipland (1956) illustrates an Iron Age jar from St. Mawgan with similar cordon on page 61, Fig.21, Nos.53, 56 & 59, which are St Mawgan-in-Pydar type J.Miles (1977) illustrates similarly decorated 'Cornish' La Tene period (4th-1st century BC) jars from Killibury on pages 102 & 104, Figs.40-41, Nos.12 & 25.Christie (1978) illustrates similar examples of cordoned ware from Carn Euny, Sancreed on page 421, Fig.62, Nos.3 & 11, which are dated from the 1st century BC.Saunders and Harris (CAJ No.21, 1982) illustrate a similar example from Castle Gotha, St. Austell, on page 137, Fig.13, No.34, which is dated from the 1st century AD.
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