Medieval - Grey reduced ware (6.GR.BE.0001)
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- Category
- Grey reduced ware (Medieval)
- Fabric name
- Chronology
- Medieval > Late Medieval > 13th century
- Dating method(-s)
- /
- Potters' mark
- No
- Additional information
Find location
- Site type
- Pottery production
- Location
- Belgium; Oost-Vlaanderen; Lievegem
- Site name
- Oostwinkel, Diepenbeek
- Excavation or Survey Team
- W. De Clercq, K. De Groote, J. Moens & S. Mortier (Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen en Instituut voor het Archeologisch Patrimonium)
- Additional contextual information
- feature S8 (ditch); context consists of a pottery production wasters dump
- Slip
- No
- Slip color
- Glaze
- No
- Glaze type
- Glaze color
- Glaze additives
- Additional information
- Slip
- No
- Slip color
- Glaze
- No
- Glaze type
- Glaze color
- Glaze additives
- Additional information
- Surface color
- grey
- Surface texture
- Rough
- Fracture color
- grey-dark grey-light grey-dark grey-grey
- Inclusions (non-plastics/tempering)
- medium grained (rounded) quartz grains (0.25-0.125 mm), rare coarse quartz grains (around 1 mm), oval brown and beige inclusions (0.5-1 mm, clay pellets ?),
- Matrix and voids
- some vugh shaped voids (max. 1mm large)
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- OW-DB ST1
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- ARCH1.L1.B19
- Original inventory nr.
- A0035
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Matrix
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Reduced grey fabric; darkbrown/grey (PPL), black (XP).
Semi-homogenous matrix, non-calcerous with no optical activity in the core and medium optical activity in the edges.
- ca. 50-65% - Inclusions
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Quartz (++; mono+, poly-, cf: r-sa, fine to medium/coarse sand, ff: r-sa, very fine to fine sand, unimodal), sedimentary rock detritus (+; quartz arenite), chert/flint (+), metamorphic rock detritus (+-; low grade), feldspars (+; plagioclase, microcline, cf & ff, weathering and alteration), muscovite mica (+; eq & el, cf & ff), amphibole/pyroxene (--; r, cf, weathered), O/Fe (+), clay pellets/semi-plastics (+-; iron-rich and iron-poor, various sizes).
The coarse fraction consists of fine to medium/coarse sand, the fine fraction consists of very fine to fine sand. Grains are generally rounded to subangular. Overall the fabric is very poorly to poorly sorted and poorly orientated, single to double spaced.
- ca. 20-30% - Voids
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Many small planar voids and few larger vughs, well aligned, some secondary calcite infill.
- ca. 15-20% - Diagnostic features
- The fabric is characterized by a semi-homogeneous reduced matrix with no to medium optical activity and moderately high porosity. Dominant quartz inclusions with frequent sedimentary rock detritus, chert/flint, feldspars, muscovite mica and opaques/iron oxides, common metamorphic rock detritus and clay pellets/semi-plastics, and rare amphibole/pyroxene. Overall very poorly sorted fabric.
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Pottery
- Inventory number
- 6.GR.BE.0001
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Archeodepot, Archeocentrum Velzeke
- Host collection
- Archeodepot, Archeocentrum Velzeke
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Archaeological Excavation
De Clercq et al. 2001a
- Full reference
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De Clercq W., De Groote K., Moens J. & Mortier S. 2001. Zomergem-Oostwinkel. Diepenbeek: 13de-eeuwse bewoning en pottenbakkersactiviteit. Monumentenzorg en Cultuurpatrimonium. Jaarverslag van de Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen 2000: 186-189.
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Last modified: 2024-04-24.