Beacharra ware, also known as Ballyalton bowls, ^[1] is a style of Middle Neolithic pottery, ^[2] defined by Thomas Hastie Bryce (1862–1946), which is only found in the western parts of Scotland, ^[2] including Kintyre). The comparable pottery style in Ireland is known as Western Neolithic ware. British archaeologist, Stuart Piggott divided Beacharra ware into 3 groups:

• A) unornamented bag-shaped bowls
• B) decorated carinated bowls with a rim diameter smaller than the diameter at the carination with incised or channelled ornaments (arcs, straight lines and U-shaped)
• C) small bowls with panel ornaments in fine whipped cord. ^{[3] [2]}

References

Literature

• Darvill, Timothy (2008). Oxford Concise Dictionary of Archaeology, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, ISBN  978-0-19-953404-3
• Flanagan, Laurence. Ancient Ireland. Life before the Celts, Dublin, 1998. ISBN  0-7171-2433-9
• Kipfer, Barbara Ann. Dictionary of Artifacts, Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. ISBN  978-1-4051-1887-3

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