Rights Holder: Royal Institution of Cornwall
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Unique ID: CORN-9D9753
Object type certainty: Certain
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Pottery body sherd made of gabbroic clay that weathers over the gabbro outcrop on the Lizard in Cornwall. The exterior of the sherd has rectangular impressions in a chevron pattern above an applied cordon which runs horizontally across the width of the sherd. The fabric has inclusions of pale felspars, dark augite and mica and is orangey-brown and oxidised on the exterior and mid-brown on the interior of the sherd, with a reduced core. 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 Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire on page 141, Fig.14.3, No.3.
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: 26.6 mm
Width: 22.3 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight: 4.8 g
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 25th January 2008 - Friday 25th January 2008
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Other reference: 525.2
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 | 141, Fig.14.3, | No.3 |