# Dales ware

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**Dales ware** is a type of [pottery](/source/Pottery) produced in the [South Yorkshire](/source/South_Yorkshire) and [Lincolnshire](/source/Lincolnshire)[1] 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](/source/Lincolnshire),[3] but had other production centres in [Yorkshire](/source/Yorkshire),[4] and was traded northwards, east of the [Pennines](/source/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](/source/Temper_(pottery)) 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 ware[5] and were popular as burial urns in [Roman York](/source/Eboracum).[6]

## See also

- [Eboracum](/source/Eboracum)
- [Crambeck Ware](/source/Crambeck_Ware)
- [Ancient Roman Pottery](/source/Ancient_Roman_Pottery)
- [List of Romano-British pottery](/source/List_of_Romano-British_pottery)

## References

1. Margaret Darling & Barbara Precious (31 January 2014). [*A Corpus of Roman Pottery from Lincoln*](https://books.google.com/books?id=n8sVBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA83). Oxbow Books. pp. 83–. ISBN 978-1-78297-054-5.

1. Arnold, C. J. (1984). *Roman Britain to Saxon England: An Archaeological Study*. [Routledge](/source/Routledge). p. 96. ISBN 0-7099-0513-0.

1. 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

1. ["Dales ware and Dales-type ware"](http://potsherd.net/atlas/Ware/DALES). PotSherd. 2014. Retrieved 2015-01-23.

1. Monaghan, J. 1997.*Roman Pottery from York* (Archaeology of York 16/8). York: York Archaeological Trust, 897-899

1. 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

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