Grimston-Lyles Hill ware
Grimston-Lyles Hill ware (more recently CB ware) is an Early and Middle Stone Age 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.
In 1974, Isobel Smith expanded this term because she discovered the vessels spread across the British Isles to Lyles Hill in Northern Ireland. The vessels represent the earliest pottery style of the British Stone Age.
The long-lasting Grimston-Lyles Hill ware is characterized by its use of fine materials, good workmanship and kumpf-like shapes[1] with a shoulder profile and turned-over edge. More recently, the term "carinated bowl" (CB) has been preferred, although there are also shoulderless specimens. All are (except for occasional finger fluting) unadorned.
Alison Sheridan makes a distinction between the earliest manifestation of pottery, the "traditional CB" and its later developments, "modified (or developed) CB". "Traditional CB" pottery is significantly more consistent and distributed across a wide area in Great Britain and Ireland, while "modified CB" shows regional differences.
See also
References and footnotes
- ^ A kumpf is a high, sometimes closed bowl with a biconical or rounded profile and mostly accentuated rim. See Fowler, Harding and Hofmann
Literature
- Alison Sheridan: French connections I: spreading the marmites thinly. In: I. Armit et al. (eds.): Neolitic settlement in Ireland and Western Britain. Oxford: Oxbow, 2003.
- Chris Fowler, Jan Harding, Daniela Hofmann, The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe, Oxford: OUP, 2015.