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The earliest style of pottery is known as Carinated Bowl; these pots usually have distinct carinations (sharply turned shoulders) and burnished finishes. [2] Carinated Bowls (CB) are not decorated, except for a few instances of grooves created by fingertips dragged down or along the bowl surface while the clay was still wet.
Peterborough ware is a decorated British Neolithic pottery style of the early to middle English Neolithic. Named after Peterborough, the nearest city to where the style was first discovered, it is found in the region of South-East England and East Anglia. [1] [2] it is known for the impressed pits made by bone or wood implements in its sides ...
Grimston-Lyles Hill ware or Grimston ware (more recently CB ware) is an Early and Middle Neolithic pottery originally named after the site where it was found in the north east of England, "Hanging Grimston", a long barrow in the former East Riding area of Yorkshire.
Grooved ware is the name given to a pottery style of the British Neolithic. Its manufacturers are sometimes known as the Grooved ware people. Unlike the later Beaker ware, Grooved culture was not an import from the continent but seems to have developed in Orkney, early in the 3rd millennium BC, and was soon adopted in Great Britain and Ireland. [1]
Fragment of an Unstan ware bowl. Unstan ware is the name used by archaeologists for a type of finely made and decorated Neolithic pottery from the 4th and 3rd millennia BC. . Typical are elegant and distinctive shallow bowls with a band of grooved patterning below the rim, [1] a type of decoration which was created using a technique known as "stab-and-d
Pottery of the Ballymarlagh Style. Western Neolithic ware, also known as Western style Neolithic pottery or New Stone Age pottery in the Western-style, is a type of pottery of the Early and Middle New Stone Age, which is found in the western parts of the British Isles and especially in Ireland. [1] It was defined in 1961 by Humphrey Case (1918 ...
The Neolithic in Scotland lasted from approximately 4000 to 2200 BC and Orkney as a whole has nearly 3,000 identified Neolithic sites all told. British archaeologists have often interpreted this era as having two distinct phases; the Earlier Neolithic dominated by regional styles of pottery and architecture followed by a relatively abrupt ...
King Arthur's Round Table, Neolithic Class II henge. Maumbury Rings, Neolithic henge later used as a Roman amphitheatre. Mayburgh Henge, Neolithic henge with standing stones. Priddy Circles, four stone circles and two round barrows; Ring of Brodgar, Neolithic henge and stone circle. Thornborough Henges, three aligned Neolithic henges.