Orkney: Centre of the Stone Age
The Ancients
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The History of Groovedware
The oldest dates we have for groovedware are in Orkney. The shape of the pot is very similar it's either straight sided or a bit flower potty. Early stuff was decorated with incisions and then they moved on to cordons, applied cordons. They could take little decorative slits and cuts into it as well. It's an amazing we're not seeing that people tucked a big pot under the arm and got into a boat and rode off to Clackton and see or anything like that. So it's the idea of the decoration which must have really seized people's imagination and they wanted it.
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