Ipswich ware

Ipswich ware is a plain, hard, sandy grey ware made in both a smooth and gritty fabric, and is dark grey in colour. Ipswich ware was produced in a small variety of forms, primarily jars with rounded bodies and upright rims, hanging vessels, cooking pots and more infrequently, large bottles and decorated pitchers. The bases of jars were typically very thick and upper jar bodies were often enhanced with grooved bands. The pottery was made on a slow-wheel (turntable) and fired in a kiln. Ipswich ware has similar characteristics to Frisian pottery, which was imported to Britain during the early Anglo-Saxon era. Frisian pottery is grey in colour, also round bodied and thick-walled with upright rims, and made on a turntable. ==History==

Ipswich ware is the first wheel-turned and mass-produced pottery in post-Roman Britain. Manufactured from the early eighth to the ninth centuries AD, it was distributed widely in East Anglia and eastern Cambridgeshire. After the introduction of Ipswich ware, hand-made pottery forms were no longer produced in Britain. ==See also==