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Description: | Pottery body sherd of a large urn or food vessel decorated with a parallel pair of a double-plaited or twisted cord impressions running horizontally across the upper half of the exterior of the sherd. Between these two borders are double-plaited cord impressed triangles, where the base of the triangle is parallel to the borders. The fabric is a gabbroic (clay that weathers over the gabbro stone on the Lizard) admixture with large inclusions of pale feslpar, dark augite, mica and slate, and the decoration is typical of what is locally termed Trevisker ware, after a site in St Eval where it was first discovered. The colour of the fabric is a light brown to orange throughout and there are patches of carbonised material on the upper half of the exterior of the sherd, closer to the rim. The curvature of the upper edge of the sherd, which is just below where the rim would have been, suggests that the original diameter of the vessel would have been about 400 mm in diameter.Nowakowski (1991) illustrates an example of a large vessel with a similar pattern from Trethellan, Newquay, on page 111, Fig.42, No.15, which is dated from the Middle Bronze Age, c.1500-1200 BC, and more recent finds at Boden, Manaccan, on the Lizard of large vessels like this example have been radio-carbon dated from c.1400-1190 BC (James Gossip pers comm, publication pending).
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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