Hand-made; typically ring or coil-built and bonfire fired

Surfaces, both internal and external, may be smoothed. Early Neolithic Plain Ware examples have been recorded with faint radial fluting on the rims. Applied lugs have also been recorded on vessels of this date in this fabric. Middle Neolithic examples exhibit a range of impressed decorations typical of Peterborough type wares. Examples include birdbone impressions, randomly executed fingernail impressions and whipped cord maggots applied in rows and herringbone arrangements

Local to site, WORCESTERSHIRE/HEREFORDSHIRE
Wares in this fabric are almost certainly produced using local clays tempered with deliberately selected and crushed locally derived quartzite pebbles. Comparable fabrics have been widely found in the West Midlands and into Wales. Within Worcestershire few examples of vessels in this fabric are known but it has been identified at Huntmans Quarry, Kemerton and also potentially at Beckford. The most notable assemblage from an adjacent county is that from Wellington Quarry, Herefordshire where a significant Early Neolithic Plain Ware assemblage was associated with this fabric. Here, open bowl forms were well represented including carinated vessels with both sharp and rounded shoulders as well as more sinuous 'S'-profiled forms. A cup of a small closed or hemispherical form was also present.

Neolithic (c.4000 BC to 2700 BC)
Both Early Neolithic Plain Wares and Middle Neolithic Impressed (Peterborough) Wares have been recorded in this fabric in the region, although in Worcestershire no examples of the former have been identified to date. Dating of Early Neolithic open and carinated plain ware bowls is typically early to middle 4th millenium BC, with dating of the assemblage at Wellington falling towards the end of this period (3700-3400 cal BC). Present radiocarbon evidence suggests that Middle Neolithic Impressed (Peterborough) Wares typically date to the few centuries either side of 3000 cal BC.