Roman - Common reduced ware (5.RE.BE.0003)
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), Hilwerda 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
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project code: SIFAO15; permit code: 2015/196; feature SP161 (pottery dump in the firing chamber); find inventory number: 286
- Surface color
- grey brown
- Surface texture
- Smooth
- Fracture color
- beige brown
- Inclusions (non-plastics/tempering)
- quartz (very fine grained); iron oxides (?), dark oval inclusions
- Matrix and voids
- large vugh, small vesicles
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- sample SIFA_ST3
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- ARCH1.L1.B17
- Original inventory nr.
- A0033
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Matrix
-
Brown fabric with dark brown edge; brown to darkbrown (PPL), dark brown (XP).
Semi-heterogenous matrix, non-calcerous with high optical activity.
- ca. 55-65% - Inclusions
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Quartz (++; mono, poly, r-sr, silt-fine/medium sand, some weathered or altered, intergrowth), sedimentary rock detritus - possibly slightly metamorphosed - Q-arenite/sandstone/siltstone, chert, feldspars (+-; plagioclase, orthoclase, microcline; sr, cf), glauconite (+; red in PPL), O/Fe (+), muscovite mica flakes (+-; el, ff & cf), semi-plastics (+; different composition from matrix: 1. iron-rich inclusion-poor and 2. fine-grained with higher optical activity).
The coarse fraction varies from medium to very fine sand, the fine fraction from fine sand to silt. Grains are generally sub-rounded to rounded. Overall, the fabric is moderately well sorted, single/double spaced and poor orientated.
- ca. 20-30% - Voids
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Small to large planar voids and vughs, drying cracks in and around semi-plastics, moderately aligned parallel to edge, no infill
- ca. 10-15% - Diagnostic features
- Semi-heterogenous reduced matrix with high optical activity and moderate porosity. Dominant quartz inclusions with frequent sedimentary rock inclusions, glauconite, opaques/iron oxides and semi-plastics, common feldspars and muscovite mica flakes. Overall moderately well sorted.
- Additional information
- High optical activity indicates a relative low firing temperature. Semi-plastics adn clay pellets are the result of a section of fabric that is less successfully mixed. Same fabric as sample A0032 (same sherd?).
- Sample type
- Pottery
- Inventory number
- 5.RE.BE.0003
- 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
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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.