Dales ware is a type of pottery produced in the South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire1 areas of England and widely distributed across northern Britain during the 3rd and 4th centuries AD.2
Industry
Dales ware was predominantly produced in north Lincolnshire,3 but had other production centres in Yorkshire,4 and was traded northwards, east of the Pennines in the 3rd and 4th Centuries AD. It most commonly occurs as jars.5
Fabric
Dales Ware
Dales ware is a handmade, shell-tempered coarseware ceramic with a distinctive rim, often wheel-formed.5 The fabric is rough and coloured brown-grey.5 It often includes irregular finger indentations around the lower body, but is generally smoothed towards the shoulder and over the rim and lip.4
Dales-type ware
The Dales-type ware was defined by Loughlin.3 The fabric differs in being hard-fired and grey, in comparison to the above. Dales-type jars are always more numerous than true Dales ware5 and were popular as burial urns in Roman York.6
References
References
- Margaret Darling; Barbara Precious (31 January 2014). A Corpus of Roman Pottery from Lincoln. Oxbow Books. pp. 83–. ISBN 978-1-78297-054-5.
- Arnold, C. J. (1984). Roman Britain to Saxon England: An Archaeological Study. Routledge. p. 96. ISBN 0-7099-0513-0.
- 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
- "Dales ware and Dales-type ware". PotSherd. 2014. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
- Monaghan, J. 1997.Roman Pottery from York (Archaeology of York 16/8). York: York Archaeological Trust, 897-899
- 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