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POT
Unique ID: CORN-878293
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Pottery body sherd with a deep groove which ends abruptly half way along the exterior of the sherd, suggesting it is later damage. The sherd is made of gabbroic clay that weathers over the gabbro outcrop on the Lizard in Cornwall. The fabric has fine inclusions of pale felspars, dark augite and mica and large inclusions of quartz, and is orangey-brown on the exterior and on the interior of the sherd, and throughout the core. This gabbroic fabric is seen in comparable local Grooved Ware vessels, dating from c.2900-2400 BC (Henrietta Quinnell, forthcoming).
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: 30 mm
Width: 23 mm
Thickness: 13.5 mm
Weight: 8.5 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 6th February 2008 - Wednesday 6th February 2008
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 533.3
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: SW46NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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