Peterborough Ware is a Middle Neolithic pottery from Great Britain . It was named by Abbott after the eponymous site Peterborough . It was divided into the styles Ebbsfleet, Mortlake and Fengate by Isobell Smith , which she interpreted as a chronological sequence. However, 14 C dates indicate that they are at least partially simultaneous. It is made between 3400 and 2500 BC. And is considered to be the forerunner of the Bronze Age food vessel .
Ebbsfleet : round bottom, S-shaped profile, slightly thickened edge, little or no decoration
Mortlake : round bottom, clearly thickened edge with mostly T-shaped, sometimes also rounded cross-section. Richly decorated, especially with partial cord prints (maggot-lines) or with bird bones.
Grooved goods are also in use from Scotland to the south of England . This ends the Neolithic phase. From 3000 BC Its own metal tradition emerges. The Early Copper Age Meldon Bridge Industry is proven at the Castletown Roche, Knocknague and Lough Ravel sites.
Alex Gibson, Ian Kinnes: On the urns of Dilemma: Radiocarbon and the Peterborough Problem. In: Oxford Journal of Archeology. Vol. 16, No. 1, 1997, 65-71, doi : 10.1111 / 1468-0092.00025 .
G. Wyman Abbott, Reginald A. Smith: The Discovery of Prehistoric Pits at Peterborough and the Development of Neolithic Pottery. In: Archaeologia. Vol. 62, No. 1, 1910, p., Here pp. 333-339, doi : 10.1017 / S0261340900008183 .
Isobel F. Smith: The Neolithic. In: Colin Renfrew (Ed.): British Prehistory. A new outline. Duckworth, London 1974, ISBN 0-7156-0671-9 , pp. 100-135.
