Grooved ware pottery
This type of Neolthic pottery takes its name from the characteristic grooved decoration. Similar pots were made across south-west England and were used for cooking and storing food. This fragment was found at Haldon Hill in Devon.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 54/1943/48
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Material
- potteryGrooved ware
- Common Name
- grooved ware pottery
- Simple Name
- vessel (sherd)
- Period Classification
- Neolithic (4000-2200 BC)
