Abingdon ware

'''Abingdon ware''' is a Middle Neolithic (3900–3200 BC), decorated, round-bottomed pottery<ref name=Darvill>Darvill (2008), p. 2</ref> found in an ancient causewayed enclosure<ref name=Historic_England>[http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=237986 ''Abingdon Causewayed Enclosure''] at Historic England. Retrieved 4 Oct 2017.</ref> at Abingdon-on-Thames, whence the name, about 15 kilometres south of Oxford,<ref name=AW>[https://archaeologywordsmith.com/lookup.php?category=&where=headword&terms=Abingdon+ware ''Abingdon ware''] at www.archaeologywordsmith.com. Retrieved 4 Oct 2017.</ref> as well as in the upper Thames valley and central England.<ref name=Darvill/> Abingdon ware belongs to the earliest pottery found in Great Britain and was discovered together with a handful of Peterborough, Grooved and Beaker ware as well as Bronze Age sherds.<ref name=Historic_England/> It is a regional variation of the so-called Southern Decorated series.<ref name=Darvill/> The Abingdon Causewayed Enclosure has been dated to the 37th or 36th century BC.<ref name=Historic_England/>

== See also == * Prehistoric Britain

== References == {{Reflist}}

== Literature == * Darvill, Timothy (2008). ''Oxford Concise Dictionary of Archaeology'', 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, {{ISBN|978-0-19-953404-3}}. * Historic England, ''Abingdon Causewayed Enclosure''. [http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=237986 Detail of the type location]

Category:Pottery of Stone Age Britain