Dales ware is a type of pottery produced in the South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire areas of England and widely distributed across northern Britain during the 3rd and 4th centuries AD.
Industry Dales ware was predominantly produced in north Lincolnshire,Loughlin, N. 1977. 'Dales Ware: a contribution to the study of Roman coarse pottery', in Peacock (ed.) 1977. Pottery and Early Commerce: Characterisation and trade in Roman and Later Ceramics. London, 85-146 but had other production centres in Yorkshire, and was traded northwards, east of the Pennines in the 3rd and 4th Centuries AD. It most commonly occurs as jars.Monaghan, J. 1997.Roman Pottery from York (Archaeology of York 16/8). York: York Archaeological Trust, 897-899
Fabric
Dales Ware Dales ware is a handmade, shell-tempered coarseware ceramic with a distinctive rim, often wheel-formed. The fabric is rough and coloured brown-grey. It often includes irregular finger indentations around the lower body, but is generally smoothed towards the shoulder and over the rim and lip.
Dales-type ware The Dales-type ware was defined by Loughlin. The fabric differs in being hard-fired and grey, in comparison to the above. Dales-type jars are always more numerous than true Dales ware and were popular as burial urns in Roman York.Wenham, L.P. 1968. The Romano-British Cemetery at Trentholme Drive, York (Ministry of Public Building and Works Archaeological Report 5). London: HMSO, figs.23-4
See also Eboracum Crambeck Ware Ancient Roman Pottery List of Romano-British pottery
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