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POT
Unique ID: CORN-702725
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Pottery body sherd with an uneven wide groove or band of very coarse impressed cord, running horizontally but unevenly across the width of the sherd. The sherd is made of gabbroic clay that weathers over the gabbro outcrop on the Lizard in Cornwall. The fabric has inclusions of pale felspars, dark augite and mica and is dark brown on the exterior and mid-brown on the interior of the sherd. This 'mucky' gabbroic fabric and type of decoration are seen on Grooved Ware vessels, dating from c.2900-2400 BC (Henrietta Quinnell, forthcoming).
T.G. Manby in Cleal & MacSween (1999) illustrates similar uneven bands on a Grooved Ware vessel from Garton Slack in Yorkshire, on page 65, Fig.6.4, No.3.
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: Royal Cornwall Museum
Subsequent action after recording: Donated to a museum
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 2900 BC
Date to: Circa 2400 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 22 mm
Width: 25 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight: 4.5 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 28th March 2008 - Friday 28th March 2008
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 529D.5
Museum accession number: 2011.23
Materials and construction
Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Hand made
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
District: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Paul (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SW4526
Four figure Latitude: 50.079285
Four figure longitude: -5.565627
1:25K map: SW4526
1:10K map: SW46NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manby, T.G. | 1999 | Grooved ware sites in Yorkshire and Northern England: 1974-1994 | Oxford | Oxbow Books | 65, Fig.6.4, | No.3 |
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