Rights Holder: Royal Institution of Cornwall
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Unique ID: CORN-7EEE35
Object type certainty: Certain
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Group of seven undiagnostic pottery sherds, including three base sherds and one twisted everted rim sherd, probably all from jars. The surfaces and cores of the sherds have been oxidised to a light brown colour. There are carbonised remains on the exterior surfaces of most of the sherds. The fabric looks, from macroscopic analysis, to be gabbroic, as it has inclusions of mica, white felspar and a dark grey mineral which could be augite. Gabbroic clay, sourced on the Lizard, was extensively used during the Iron Age in Cornwall. Late Iron Age in date (Carl Thorpe pers comm).
Current location of find: returned to finder
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: IRON AGE
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: IRON AGE
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: IRON AGE
Date from: Circa 300 BC
Date to: AD 100
Quantity: 7
Weight: 82.14 g
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 25th June 2003
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Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Hand made
Completeness: Incomplete
4 Figure: SW4027
Four figure Latitude: 50.086094
Four figure longitude: -5.636048
1:25K map: SW4027
1:10K map: SW47SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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