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The gabbroic pottery of Cornwall

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

D.P.S. Peacock
D.P.S. Peacock*
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Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, Southampton SO9 5NH
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Cornish gabbroic pottery has one of the more distinctive British petrological signatures and a remarkable distribution in space and time. Here recent developments are reviewed and some misconceptions corrected

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Antiquity , Volume 62 , Issue 235 , June 1988, pp. 302 - 304
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1988

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