Medieval - Grey reduced ware (6.GR.BE.0006)
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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 1G (7)
- 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
- orange
- Inclusions (non-plastics/tempering)
- medium to fine grained quartz, some larger ('milk white') quartz granules appear (up to 2 mm and more), large rounded brown inclusions (clay pellets ? )
- Matrix and voids
- several vugh shaped voids (max. 4-5 mm)
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- ZOBA ST4
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- ARCH1.L1.B10
- Original inventory nr.
- A0026
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Matrix
-
Reduced brown to dark brown fabric; brown to dark brown (PPL), black (XP).
Heterogeneous matrix, non-calcareous (?) with no optical activity.
- ca. 40-60% - Inclusions
-
Quartz (++; mono, poly, weathering, alteration, cf: r-sr, fine to medium sand, ff: sr-sa, very fine to fine sand), sedimentary rock detritus (+; quartz arenite), chert (+), flint (+), feldspars (-; plagioclase, microcline, r-sr, cf), muscovite mica (+-; ff, el), O/Fe (+), semiplastics/clay pellets (+-, some iron-rich). Possible grog (--; few grains with vitrified matrix, shape and texture resembling semiplastics, containing few quartz minerals, coarse sand size, similar to Fe-oxides and Fe-rich clay pellets, drying cracks).
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 moderately orientated, close to double spaced.
- ca. 30-40% - Voids
-
Many planar voids, channels and vughs of various sizes, moderate alignment relative to the edge. Some secondary calcite infill in vughs.
- ca. 10-20% - Diagnostic features
- The fabric is characterized by a heterogeneous reduced matrix with no optical activity and moderately high porosity. Dominant quartz inclusions with frequent sedimentary rock detritus, chert, flint and opaques/iron oxides, common muscovite mica and semiplastics/clay pellets, few feldspars and possibly rare grog grains. Overall poorly sorted fabric.
- Additional information
- Possible observation of coiling in the core of the sherd. Only slight circular indication by cf inclusions. Uncertain.
- 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.0006
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Archeocentrum Velzeke
- Host collection
- Archeocentrum Velzeke
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Archaeological Excavation
De Clercq et al. 2001b
- Full reference
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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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