Grimston-Lyles Hill ware

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.[1]

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.[1]

The long-lasting Grimston-Lyles Hill ware is characterized by its use of fine materials, good workmanship and kumpf-like shapes[2] with a shoulder profile and turned-over edge. More recently, the term "carinated bowl" (CB) or "shouldered bowl"[1] 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.

References and footnotes
  1. Darvill (2008), p. 177.
  2. A kumpf is a high, sometimes closed bowl with a biconical or rounded profile and mostly accentuated rim. See Fowler, Harding and Hofmann

Literature
  • Darvill, Timothy (2008). Oxford Concise Dictionary of Archaeology, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, ISBN 978-0-19-953404-3.
  • Fowler, Chris; Jan Harding and Daniela Hofmann, The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe, Oxford: OUP, 2015.
  • Sheridan, Alison. French connections I: spreading the marmites thinly. In: I. Armit et al. (eds.): Neolithic settlement in Ireland and Western Britain. Oxford: Oxbow, 2003.
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