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POT
Unique ID: CORN-0FCAB3
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Pottery body sherd with a large finger tip impression on the interior surface and two parallel lines of broken lentoid impressions on the exterior of the sherd. The fabric has inclusions of pale felspars and mica and is orangey-brown on the exterior and mid-brown on the interior of the sherd. This type of decoration is seen on Grooved Ware vessels, dating from c.2900-2400 BC (Henrietta Quinnell, forthcoming).
Anna Brindley in Cleal & MacSween (1999) illustrates a similarly decorated Grooved Ware vessel from Puddlehill in Bedfordshire, on page 140, Fig.14.2, No.5.
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: 31.5 mm
Width: 14.5 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight: 4.9 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 9th September 2009 - Thursday 3rd December 2009
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 566.11
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: SW46SE
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brindley, A. | 1999 | Sequence and dating in the grooved ware tradition | Oxford | Oxbow Books | 140, Fig.14.2, | No.5 |
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