Rights Holder: Royal Institution of Cornwall
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Unique ID: CORN-A0CD35
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 two finger nail impressions at an oblique angle to the lower edge of the sherd and to the left of a circular perforation which has since broken in half. 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).
T. G. Manby in Cleal & MacSween (1999) illustrates similarly perforated Grooved Ware vessels from Old Yeavering in Northumberland and West Heslerton in North Yorkshire on page 62, Fig.6.2, Nos.1-3.
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: 19.5 mm
Width: 27.5 mm
Thickness: 7.6 mm
Weight: 4 g
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 25th January 2008 - Friday 25th January 2008
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Other reference: 525.7
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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Manby, T.G. | 1999 | Grooved ware sites in Yorkshire and Northern England: 1974-1994 | Oxford | Oxbow Books | 62, Fig.6.2, | Nos.1-3 |