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VESSEL
Unique ID: CORN-EC87C5
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Pottery body sherd of a large urn or food vessel decorated with a parallel pair of a double-plaited or twisted cord impressions running horizontally across the upper half of the exterior of the sherd. Between these two borders are double-plaited cord impressed triangles, where the base of the triangle is parallel to the borders. The fabric is a gabbroic (clay that weathers over the gabbro stone on the Lizard) admixture with large inclusions of pale feslpar, dark augite, mica and slate, and the decoration is typical of what is locally termed Trevisker ware, after a site in St Eval where it was first discovered. The colour of the fabric is a light brown to orange throughout and there are patches of carbonised material on the upper half of the exterior of the sherd, closer to the rim. The curvature of the upper edge of the sherd, which is just below where the rim would have been, suggests that the original diameter of the vessel would have been about 400 mm in diameter.
Nowakowski (1991) illustrates an example of a large vessel with a similar pattern from Trethellan, Newquay, on page 111, Fig.42, No.15, which is dated from the Middle Bronze Age, c.1500-1200 BC, and more recent finds at Boden, Manaccan, on the Lizard of large vessels like this example have been radio-carbon dated from c.1400-1190 BC (James Gossip pers comm, publication pending).
Class:
Trevisker ware
Sub class: large urn or food vessel
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: BRONZE AGE
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 1500 BC
Date to: Circa 1200 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 103 mm
Width: 91 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight: 199.99 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 8th March 2014
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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: Penzance (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SW4626
Four figure Latitude: 50.07971267
Four figure longitude: -5.55167836
1:25K map: SW4626
1:10K map: SW46SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nowakowski, J. | 1991 | Trethellan Farm, Newquay: The excavation of a lowland Bronze Age settlement and Iron Age cemetery | Redruth | Cornwall Lithographic Printers Ltd. | 111, Fig.42, | No.15 |
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