Rights Holder: Royal Institution of Cornwall
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Unique ID: CORN-DE9DA3
Object type certainty: Certain
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Pottery body sherd with two grooves in a sideways 'V' shape, one running horizontally across the width of the sherd and the other at an oblique angle to it, running to the upper edge 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 orangey-brown on the exterior and mid-brown on the interior of the sherd with an orange core. This 'mucky' gabbroic fabric and type of decoration are seen on Grooved Ware vessels, dating from c.2900-2400 BC (Henrietta Quinnell, forthcoming).
Anna Brindley in Cleal & MacSween (1999) illustrates similarly alligned grooves on a Grooved Ware vessel, from Puddlehill in Bedfordshire, on page 140, Fig.14.2, No.14.
Current location of find: Royal Cornwall Museum
Subsequent action after recording: Donated to a museum
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 2900 BC
Date to: Circa 2400 BC
Quantity: 1
Length: 14 mm
Width: 21.3 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight: 2.8 g
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 7th April 2008 - Monday 7th April 2008
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Other reference: 529F.9
Museum accession number: 2011.23
Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Hand made
Completeness: Fragment
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.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Brindley, A. | 1999 | Sequence and dating in the grooved ware tradition | Oxford | Oxbow Books | 140, Fig.14.2, | No.14 |