Medieval - Grey reduced ware (6.GR.BE.0003)
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- Category
- Grey reduced ware (Medieval)
- Fabric name
- Chronology
- Medieval > High Medieval > 12th century
- Dating method(-s)
- morphology
- Potters' mark
- No
- Additional information
- pottery production consists of globular pots, spout pots and frying pans; based on the various rim types of the globular pots the production is probably situated in the middle of the 12th century
Find location
- Site type
- Pottery production
- Location
- Belgium; Oost-Vlaanderen; Lievegem
- Site name
- Zomergem, Bauwerwaan
- 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
- pottery production wasters dump, clay extraction structure (feature 1), ZOBA 1D
- 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 (thin orange oxidation phase)
- Inclusions (non-plastics/tempering)
- medium to fine grained quartz, some larger quartz granules appear (up to 2 mm and more), brown inclusions (?!)
- Matrix and voids
- /
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- ZOBA ST1
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- ARCH1.L1.B7
- Original inventory nr.
- A0023
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Matrix
-
Reduced brown to dark brown fabric; dark brown (PPL), black (XP).
Semi-homogenous matrix, non-calcareous with no optical activity.
- ca. 35-45% - Inclusions
-
Quartz (++; mono, poly, weathering & alteration, cf: r-sr, fine to medium sand, ff: sr-sa, very fine to fine sand), sedimentary or low-grade metamorphic rock detritus (-), chert/flint (+-), feldspars (+; plagioclase, microcline, r, cf), muscovite mica (+; cf & ff, eq & el), glauconite (+-; r, cf & ff, red in PPL), O/Fe (+), semiplastics/clay pellets (+-, iron-rich).
The coarse fraction consists of fine to medium sand, the fine fraction consists of fine to very fine sand. Grains are generally rounded to subangular. Overall the fabric is poorly sorted and poorly orientated, single to double spaced.
- ca. 40-50% - Voids
-
Many small planar voids and few larger vughs, well aligned parallel to the edge, no infill. Drying cracks in and around semiplastics/clay pellets.
- ca. 15-20% - Diagnostic features
- The fabric is characterized by a semi-homogenous reduced matrix with no optical activity and high porosity. Dominant quartz inclusions with frequent feldspars, muscovite mica and opaques/iron oxides, common chert/flint, glauconite and semiplastics/clay pellets, and few sedimentary or low grade metamorphic rock detritus. Overall poorly sorted fabric.
- Additional information
- Clay type
- glauconite-rich clay
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Cenozoic; Paleogene; Eocene
- Lithostratigraphy
- Maldegem Formation; Wemmel Member
- Additional information
- often referred to as "Tertiary clay"
- Sample type
- Pottery
- Inventory number
- 6.GR.BE.0003
- 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. 2001b
- Full reference
-
De Clercq W., De Groote K., Moens J. & Mortier S. 2001. Zomergem. Bauwerwaan: sporen van 12de-eeuwse kleiwinning en pottenbakkersactiviteit. Monumentenzorg en Cultuurpatrimonium. Jaarverslag van de Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen 2000: 192-195.
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