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Description: | Fragment of a pottery body sherd from a large Bronze Age urn or food vessel. The exterior is undecorated so that dating within the 2nd millennium BC is difficult. The fabric is a gabbroic (clay that weathers over the gabbro stone on the Lizard) with inclusions of pale feslpar, dark augite and mica.The colour of the fabric is a light brown interior to more oxidised orange exterior. The curvature of the upper edge of the sherd suggests that the original diameter of the vessel would have been about 400 mm in diameter. The fabric, thickness and curvature is typical of what is locally termed Trevisker ware, after a site in St Eval where it was first discovered. These vessels often have the decoration in the upper half so this sherd may have come from the lower half of the vessel.Nowakowski (1991) illustrates an example of a large vessel with a similar diameter from Trethellan, Newquay, on page 111, fig.42, no.15, which is dated from the Middle Bronze Age, c.1500-1200 BC.Gossip (2014) illustrates a similar vessel found at Boden on the Lizard on page 32, fig.24, no.2, which has been radio-carbon dated from c.1400-1190 BC.
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