Social:Western Neolithic ware
Four subgroups were recognised in Ireland:
- Dunmurry style,
- Ballymarlagh style
- Limerick style I (round bottomed)
- Limerick style II (shallow/flat)
- Lyles Hill style.[1]
Over the course of time they were increasingly decorated. Simple incised patterns on the shoulder created with a piece of wood may possibly represent a leather case.
Pots decorated with cord patterns are so typical of Ireland that they became known as Ballyalton Bowls, named after the court tomb where they were found. Similar pots were found in the west of Scotland in graves. There were referred to there as Beacharra ware.[2]
Whilst smooth and decorated containers are typical of Irish court and portal tombs, they are rarely found in their associated settlement sites, or even on those of the builders of the passage tombs. In fact, they were an unusual form pottery everywhere during the Neolithic Period.
See also
- Prehistoric pottery in Great Britain
References
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedDarvill - ↑ Style of decorated middle Neolithic pottery found in western parts of Scotland and classified by Stuart Piggott into three groups:
- A = unornamented bag-shaped bowls;
- B =decorated carinated bowls with a rim diameter less than the diameter at the carination and incised or channelled ornament;
- C = small bowls with panel ornament in fine whipped cord.
Literature
- L. Flanagan: Ancient Ireland Life before the Celts Dublin, 1998 ISBN:0-7171-2433-9
- Darvill, Timothy (2008). Oxford Concise Dictionary of Archaeology, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, ISBN:978-0-19-953404-3.
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