Roman - Common reduced ware (5.RE.BE.0001)
Find location
- Category
- Common reduced ware (Roman)
- Fabric name
- Gallo-Belgic ware imitation: Terra Nigra-like fabric
- Chronology
- Roman > Middle Roman > Flavian period (69-96 CE)
- Dating method(-s)
- typology
- Potters' mark
- No
- Additional information
- determined types: Holwerda 27 (Deru P48), Holwerda 30 & Holwerda 26; radio carbon date on a charcoal fragment doesn't match with the typological aspects of the pottery (old wood effect); local imitation of Gallo-Belgic Terra Nigra
Find location
- Site type
- Pottery production
- Location
- Belgium; Oost-Vlaanderen; Zottegem
- Site name
- Sint-Maria-Oudenhove, Faliestraat
- Excavation or Survey Team
- N. Vanholme (Monument Vandekerckhove)
- Additional contextual information
-
project code: SIFAO15; permit code: 2015/196; feature SP161 (pottery dump in the firing chamber); find inventory number: 286
- Surface color
- dark grey
- Surface texture
- Smooth
- Fracture color
- beige brown
- Inclusions (non-plastics/tempering)
- quartz (very fine grained); iron oxides (?)
- Matrix and voids
- /
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- sample SIFA_ST1
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- ARCH1.L1.B15
- Original inventory nr.
- A0031
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Matrix
-
Light brown fabric with dark brown edge (reduced); brown to darkbrown in PPL and XP.
The matrix is semi-homogenous, non-calcerous, with a high optical activity.
- ca. 45-60% - Inclusions
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Quartz (++; mono, poly, r-sr, silt-fine/medium sand), sedimentary rock detritus - possibly slightly metamorphosed - Q-arenite, chert, feldspars (-; plagioclase, microcline; r, cf), Fe oxides (+), amphibole/pyroxene (-; r, cf), muscovite mica flakes (+-; el, ff & cf), glauconite (brown in PPL), iron-rich plastics. Size of the coarse fraction varies from medium to very fine sand and for the fine fraction from fine sand to silt. The grains are generally sub-rounded to rounded. The fabric is moderately well sorted, single spaced and moderate well orientated.
- ca. 30-40% - Voids
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Relative small planar voids, vughs somewhat larger, relative good alignment parallel to the edge, no infill.
- ca. 10-15%
- Diagnostic features
- Semi-homogenous reduced matrix with high optical activity and moderately porosity. Dominant quartz inclusions with frequent sedimentary rock inclusions and iron oxides, common muscovite mica flakes and glauconite, rare feldspars and amphibole/pyroxene. Iron-rich plastics throughout the sample. Overall moderately well sorted.
- Additional information
- High optical activity indicates a relatively low firing temperature. Very close fabric to samples A0032 and A0033.
- Sample type
- Pottery
- Inventory number
- 5.RE.BE.0001
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Archeodepot, Archeocentrum Velzeke
- Host collection
- Archeodepot, Archeocentrum Velzeke
- Other samples available
- Yes
- Sample collection method
- Archaeological Excavation
Van Thienen 2020
- Full reference
-
Van Thienen V. 2020: Ceramic petrography analysis of Gallo-Belgic ware imitation from Sint-Maria-Oudenhove, FLEPOSTORE Ceramic Report 01, Gent.
- File
Vanholme 2016
- Full reference
-
Vanholme N. 2016. Archeologische opgraving Sint-Maria-Oudenhove Faliestraat (prov. Oost-Vlaanderen). Baisrapport. Monument Vandekerckhove Rapport 2016/20, Ingelmunster: 120.
- Link
Vanholme et al. 2016
- Full reference
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Vanholme N., Dalle S., Deschieter J. & Clerbaut T. 2016. Een 1ste-eeuwse site met pottenbakkersoven te Sint-Maria-Oudenhove -Faliestraat (prov. Oost-Vlaanderen). Signa 5: 159-168.
- Link
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Last modified: 2024-04-30.