Beacharra ware
Beacharra ware, also known as Ballyalton bowls,[1] is a style of Middle Neolithic pottery,[2] defined by Thomas Hastie Bryce (1862–1946), which is only found in the western parts of Scotland,[2] including Kintyre). The comparable pottery style in Ireland is known as Western Neolithic ware. British archaeologist, Stuart Piggott divided Beacharra ware into 3 groups:
- A) unornamented bag-shaped bowls
- B) decorated carinated bowls with a rim diameter smaller than the diameter at the carination with incised or channelled ornaments (arcs, straight lines and U-shaped)
- C) small bowls with panel ornaments in fine whipped cord.[3][2]
References
[edit]Literature
[edit]- Darvill, Timothy (2008). Oxford Concise Dictionary of Archaeology, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, ISBN 978-0-19-953404-3
- Flanagan, Laurence. Ancient Ireland. Life before the Celts, Dublin, 1998. ISBN 0-7171-2433-9
- Kipfer, Barbara Ann. Dictionary of Artifacts, Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. ISBN 978-1-4051-1887-3
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