Rights Holder: Royal Institution of Cornwall
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Unique ID: CORN-6C0D36
Object type certainty: Certain
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Pottery body sherd with a central wide band running horizontally across the width of the sherd, defined by a damaged and flattened cordon with two oblique finger nail impressions beneath the band and, at right angles to these two, three oblique finger nail impressions above the band, on the exterior 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 to mid-brown throughout the sherd. 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 a similar pattern on a Grooved Ware vessel from Durington Walls in Wiltshire, on page 141, Fig.14.3, No.10.
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: 28 mm
Width: 30 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight: 5.9 g
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 28th March 2008 - Friday 28th March 2008
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Other reference: 529C.21
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.10 |