Medieval - Grey reduced ware (6.GR.BE.0010)
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- Category
- Grey reduced ware (Medieval)
- Fabric name
- Chronology
- Medieval > High Medieval / Late Medieval > 1150-1225
- Dating method(-s)
- morphology, radiocarbon dating
- Potters' mark
- No
- Additional information
- Radiocarbon date on a charcoal fragment found in the pit with ceramic wasters: date between 1020 en 1160 AD (95,4% - RICH-23971)
Find location
- Site type
- Pottery production
- Location
- Belgium; West-Vlaanderen; Houthulst
- Site name
- Houthulst, Groenestraat (FLAZ-17)
- Excavation or Survey Team
- THV MRG (Monument Vandekerckhove nv; Ruben Willaert bvba; Gate nv)
- Additional contextual information
-
Pit with ceramic wasters (AFK13, S27, find inventory number 100). This particular site is part of a larger project: Fluxys – tracé Alveringem-Maldegem
Deelzone Lot 1&2 Lo-Reninge - Staden. Permit code: 2014/286 en 286 (2).
- 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 to dark grey
- Surface texture
- Rough
- Fracture color
- dark grey
- Inclusions (non-plastics/tempering)
- quartz (some rare larger Q), orange brown inclusions (clay pellets ?),
- Matrix and voids
- some very small vesicles
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- FLAZ_17_ST2
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- ARCH1.L1.A14
- Original inventory nr.
- A0004
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Matrix
-
Dark brown reduced fabric; dark brown (PPL), black (XP).
Homogenous matrix, non calcareous without optical activity.
- ca. 35-50% - Inclusions
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Quartz (++; mono, poly, r-sr, silt - medium sand, weathering, alteration), feldspars (-; plagioclase; sr-r, ff), muscovite mica (+; el, ff), O/Fe (+-), semi-plastics/clay pellets (+-; iron-rich with fine inclusions), biotite/hornblende (--; uncertain: colorless in PPL, bright green&pink (2nd order) in XP, r, ff), amphibole/pyroxene (possible singular grain).
The coarse fraction varies from medium to fine sand, the fine fraction from very fine sand to silt. Possible bimodal. Grains are generally sub-rounded to rounded. Overall the fabric is poorly to very poorly sorted.
- ca. 40-50% - Voids
-
Many small planar voids in main fabric, well aligned parallel to edge, no infill; large planar voids and vughs in semi-plastics/clay pellets with surrounding drying cracks around.
- ca. 10-15% - Diagnostic features
- The fabric is characterized by a homogenous reduced matrix with no optical activity and moderate porosity. Dominant quartz inclusions with frequent muscovite mica, common opaques/iron oxides and semi-plastics/clay pellets, few feldspars, rare biotite/hornblende (?), and a singular amphibole/pyroxene. Possibly slightly bimodal. Overall poorly to very poorly sorted.
- Additional information
- Bright green (xp) minerals are most likely hornblende or biotite mica. Also observed in A0003 and A0005.
- Sample type
- Pottery
- Inventory number
- 6.GR.BE.0010
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Monument Vandekerckhove NV
- Host collection
- Temporal repository Monument Vandekerckhove NV
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Archaeological Excavation
Verdegem & Bracke 2019 a
- Full reference
-
Verdegem S. & Bracke M. 2019. Fluxys-gasleiding Alveringem-Maldegem. Archeologisch onderzoek Vol. 1. Lot 1&2: deelzone Lo-Reninge-Staden (Frontzone).
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Last modified: 2024-04-26.