File:Bronze Age rim sherd (drawing) (FindID 118268).jpg

English: Pottery rim sherd with a flat flanged rim and a carbonised twisted cord embedded on the exterior of the body, running horizontally along the width of the sherd for about 15 mm.

    The fact that the cord, whether it is made of hemp or some other plant material, is still attached to the pot surface suggests that the pot was fired with the cord, that was used to decorate it, still embedded in the clay. This may have been done to improve the depth and clarity of decoration, or perhaps to attach the pot to others while it was fired in a bonfire so that it would not move and possibly explode during firing, or perhaps it was left there purely out of carelessness.
   
    The sherd has also been decorated with another single-twisted cord beneath the extant one and running parallel to it, and their is a trace of a third liine of impressed cord below that, all within about 4 mm.
   
   The surface of the rim has also some carbonised residue on it but the interior has been worn too much to retain residues. The surface and core of the sherd have been oxidised to an orange colour. The fabric looks, from macroscopic investigation, to have mica, white feldspar and gray augite inclusions, which suggest that it is likely to have been made from gabbroic clay which is found on the Lizard in Cornwall.
   

This is quite a fine sherd for the Bronze Age, but its flattened and flanged rim and its decoration make it comparable to Trevisker ware sherds excavated from the Bronze Age settlement site at Trethellan Farm, Newquay, reported on in Cornish Archaeology No.30 (1991), page 114, Fig.45, No.30, which date it to the Middle Bronze Age c.1500-1150.