1,"scratched decoration","Scratched decoration is restricted to haematite-coated bowls of type BB 1. The motifs were inscribed on the vessel, after firing, using a sharp point. Decoration was usually restricted to the horizontal facets of the shoulder of the vessel but a simple zig-zag line was sometimes scored just below the rim top. The arrangement of the decorated zones on the body is best appreciated by reference to Figs 6.57 and 6.58. Motifs are difficult to classify particularly since the sherds of bowls decorated in this way are usually small. For this reason no attempt at subdivision has been made. The full range of motifs is shown on Fig 6.79 together with motifs from comparable vessels found at the nearby sites of Meon Hill and Quarley Hill. Most common was the simple continuous zig-zag inscribed just below the rim or on the shoulder. Occasionally more complex zig-zags composed of multiple lines were employed. Another technique was to divide the shoulder facets into panels for decorative purposes. The infilling of the panels varied considerably but always emphasized simple geometric motifs.","58; 59; 79"
2,"stamped or impressed motifs","This method of decoration is extremely rare at Dane bury; only four examples have been found (Fig 6.80). Nos 716 and 751 together belong to a class of jars comparable in form to JD1 heavily decorated with panels of stabbing contained within deeply grooved lines. The style is well represented at All Cannings Cross and other Wessex sites of the 8th-6th centuries. The two Danebury sherds are likely to be strays from casual pre-hillfort use of the site but both were found in later contexts. The other two vessels with stamped decoration are isolated examples. No 394 (Fig 6.66) was an open dish found in a cp 3 context decorated with a row of impressions made by the end of a stick or bone before firing. No 660 is a small bowl decorated by a deeply impressed point; it was found in a cp 8 context.","66; 80"
3,"finger-tip or finger-nail impressions","This style of decoration is rare at Danebury. It is usually found on rim tops giving a ‘pie-crust’ appearance to jars of JB1.1 and JB1 .2 type. More rarely rows of fmger impressions are found on the shoulders of jars (eg 234, 243, 335) (Fig 6.80). Sherds are too small to be certain of the type, but they are most likely to be jars of the JB1 category. Only one example of the use of the fmger nail is known, used, in this case, in conjunction with scratched and stabbed decoration (no 367).","80"
4,"applied cordons","Applied cordons occur at different stages in the Danebury sequence. Finger-impressed cordons (eg no 573, type JA1.1) are very rare. Plain cordons are, however, a characteristic of the BB1, 2, and 3 types and the technique is used again later on the vessels of ceramic phase 8 (BD1.2, JD4.2).",
5,"shallow-tooled decoration","Shallow-tooled decoration, involving the use of a narrow blunt point to lightly draw patterns on vessels before firing, is a technique frequently used in ceramic phase 7 and, to a lesser extent, in ceramic phase 8. It has given rise to a wide variety of patterns incorporating a number of standardized motifs in different combinations. Any classificatory scheme which attempted to take cognizance of all the subtleties of combination would be cumber some in the extreme. The simplest way to communicate something of the range is by illustration (Figs 6.39, 6.42, 6.44, 6.47—6.50, 6.62, 6.70—6.74) but in order to record and quantify the principal patterns a simplified scheme has been devised.  Decoration is usually in horizontal zones restricted to the upper part of the vessel beginning just below the rim and extending sometimes as far as the shoulder (in the case of jars) or as much as halfway down the wall (in the case of saucepan pots). A second band of decoration may sometimes be found just above the base.  Patterns are composed principally of shallow-tooled lines and/or shallow-tooled dots. This is used as the first part of the classification and is distinguished numerically while the nine principal motifs employed are denoted by letters thus: 1 lines only 2 dots only 3 lines and dots 4 Glastonbury style deep tooling a horizontal b diagonal c cross-hatching d zig-zag e chevron f arc g swag h wave I 	dim leThe definition of a decorative ensemble will therefore have one numeral and any number of letters. The full range of patterns is given in Figs 6.81—6.83 together with the codes appropriate to them and the sherd number from which they are drawn.","39; 42; 44; 47-50; 62; 70-74; 82"