An Indian pottery type found on Iron Age sites of the 1st millennium bc. It is a hard, wheel-made, metallic-looking ware with a shiny black surface; the chief forms are bowls and dishes. It suceeds Painted Grey ware in the Ganges sequence and is the main pottery type associated with the Ganges civilization.
The Macmillan dictionary of archaeology, Ruth D. Whitehouse, 1983Copied