Cornwall Archaeology Online – Looking inside Bronze Age pottery, is it all Gabbroic clay and where did they dig it up, results of petrographic analysis with Imogen Wood

The use of Gabbroic clay from the Lizard Peninsula in pottery for 5000 years from the Neolithic period to the Norman Conquest is unique practice in the UK. Since this discovery in the 1970s much work has been done to investigate where is was from, who used it and why they used it. I have been diving deeper into these questions and have found that there were three or four difference source locations frequented on the Lizard and that it could be specific to individual communities across Cornwall.

Imogen is a self-employed pottery specialist and petrographer based in the South West of England with 25 years of experience in regional Prehistoric, Romano-British and early medieval ceramics. Growing up in Cornwall she developed a passion for Archaeology and after gaining a 1:1 degree from Durham University she went on to do a MA and PhD at Exeter University where she currently lives with her family. Imogen has been involved with CAS since her teens and was CAS secretary 1999-2000, lectures officer 2010-2012 and currently chair of the investigations sub-committee.

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