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Abingdon ware

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Abingdon ware belongs to the earliest pottery found in Great Britain and was discovered together with a handful of Peterborough, Grooved and Beaker ware as well as Bronze Age sherds.[1] It is a regional variation of the so-called Southern Decorated series.[2] The Abingdon Causewayed Enclosure has been dated to the 37th or 36th century BC.[1]

See also

  • Prehistoric pottery in Great Britain

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named Historic_England
  2. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named Darvill

Literature

  • Darvill, Timothy (2008). Oxford Concise Dictionary of Archaeology, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, ISBN:978-0-19-953404-3.
  • Historic England, Abingdon Causewayed Enclosure. Detail of the type location





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