Peterborough ware

Named after Peterborough, the nearest city to where the style was first discovered, it is found in the region of South-East England and East Anglia.

[3] The term was introduced by R.A. Smith based on examples found at Fengate, near Peterborough.

[4] The earliest form of Peterborough ware is known as Ebbsfleet style and had minimal decoration, although this later became more complex.

Later varieties are known as Mortlake and Fengate sub-styles[6] although the sequential chronological scheme of evolution from Ebbsfleet, through Mortlake to Fengate established by Smith (1956), has been called into question by a reading of associated radiocarbon data (Kinnes and Gibson 1997).

Archaeologists have described the makers of Peterborough ware as the Peterborough culture, but the term has fallen out of favour as further discoveries have cast doubt on the idea that a single unified society produced these artefacts.