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

1. Ulster Archaeological Society, Ulster Journal of Archaeology, Vols. 32-33, 1969.
2. Kipfer (2007), p. 31.
3. Darvill (2008), p. 44.

Literature

• 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