Medieval - Ceramic building material (6.CBM.BE.0003)
Find location
- Category
- Ceramic building material (Medieval)
- Fabric name
- Chronology
- Medieval > Late Medieval > /
- Dating method(-s)
- /
- Potters' mark
- No
- Additional information
- tile fragment (?)
Find location
- Site type
- Pottery production
- Location
- Belgium; West-Vlaanderen; Brugge
- Site name
- Brugge, Kruisvest - Sint-Janshuismolen
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Stedelijke Archeologische Dienst Brugge
- Additional contextual information
- site code: BR77/KR; archaeological site monitoring; only potter's waste was found, no kilns were documented
- Slip
- No
- Slip color
- Glaze
- Yes
- Glaze type
- lead glaze
- Glaze color
- orange red
- Glaze additives
- Additional information
- Slip
- No
- Slip color
- Glaze
- No
- Glaze type
- Glaze color
- Glaze additives
- Additional information
- Surface color
- orange-red
- Surface texture
- Rough
- Fracture color
- orange-red
- Inclusions (non-plastics/tempering)
- quartz (several larger quartz grains, up to 1 mm)
- Matrix and voids
- vughs and vesicles
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- sample BR_KV_ST1
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- ARCH1.L1.B23
- Original inventory nr.
- A0039
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Matrix
-
Oxidised red fabric; light to dark brown (PPL), darkbrown to black (XP).
Homogenous matrix, non-calcerous with low optical activity.
- ca. ?% - Inclusions
-
Quartz (++; mono+, poly-, weathering and alteration), sedimentary rock detritus (+; quartz arenite), chert/flint (+), metamorphic rock detritus (+; low grade and high grade), feldspars (++; plagioclase, microcline, weathering and alteration), muscovite mica (-; el), glauconite (--; red body color), pryoxene/biotite (--), O/Fe (-), clay pellets/semi-plastics (-; iron-rich).
The inclusions range from (very) fine to medium sand sizes in a silt-rich clay. Probably natural distribution. Grains are generally rounded to subrounded. Overall the fabric is moderately sorted and poorly orientated, close to single spaced.
- ca. ?% - Voids
-
Many planar/channel and vughs, well aligned, some infill.
- ca. ?% - Diagnostic features
- The fabric is characterized by a homogeneous oxidised matrix with low optical activity and ? porosity. Dominant quartz and feldspars inclusions with frequent sedimentary and metamorphic rock detritus, chert/flint, few muscovite mica, opaques/iron oxides and clay pellets/semi-plastics, and rare glauconite and possible pyroxene or biotite. Overall moderately sorted fabric.
- Additional information
- Partial glaze layer on surface: clear-translucent in PPL.
- Sample type
- Building material (decorative, construction)
- Inventory number
- 6.CBM.BE.0003
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Raakvlak, Onroerenderfgoeddepot De Pakhuizen
- Host collection
- Raakvlak, Onroerenderfgoeddepot De Pakhuizen
- Other samples available
- Yes
- Sample collection method
- Archaeological Excavation
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Last modified: 2024-04-28.