POT
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.
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 [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Date from: Circa 2900 BC
Date to: Circa 2400 BC
Dimensions and weight
Length: 14 mm
Width: 21.3 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight: 2.8 g
Quantity: 1
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 7th April 2008 - Monday 7th April 2008
Personal details
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Recorded by: Ms Anna
Tyacke
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Identified by: Ms Anna
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Secondary identifier:
Mrs Henrietta Quinnell - [
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 529F.9
Museum accession number: 2011.23
Materials and construction
Primary material: Ceramic [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Manufacture method: Hand made [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Completeness: Fragment [scope notes | view all attributed records]
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Spatial metadata
Region: South West
County: Cornwall
District: Penwith
Parish: Paul
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SW4526
Four figure Latitude: 50.079285 Four figure longitude: -5.565627
1:25K map: SW4526
1:10K map: SW46NE
WOEID: 26352492
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
Discovery metadata
Method of discovery: Fieldwalking [scope notes]
General landuse: Cultivated land[scope notes]
References cited
- Brindley, A., 1999. Sequence and dating in the Grooved Ware tradition in Grooved Ware in Britain and Ireland Oxford : Oxbow Books
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Created:
Monday 23rd January 2012
Updated: Tuesday 24th January 2012
