Medieval - Grey reduced ware (6.GR.BE.0011)
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- Category
- Grey reduced ware (Medieval)
- Fabric name
- Chronology
- Medieval > High Medieval > 1125-1200
- Dating method(-s)
- morphology, radiocarbon dating
- Potters' mark
- No
- Additional information
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Radiocarbon dates on charcoal fragments found in three different related features: S61: 880-1020AD (95,4% - RICH-23931), AFK30 (S66): 970-1150AD (95,4% - RICH-23939), KL47 (S36) 980-1160AD (95,4% - RICH-23973).
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- Site type
- Pottery production
- Location
- Belgium; West-Vlaanderen; Houthulst
- Site name
- Houthulst, Groenestraat (FLAZ-53)
- Excavation or Survey Team
- THV MRG (Monument Vandekerckhove nv; Ruben Willaert bvba; Gate nv)
- Additional contextual information
- Clay extraction pit (?) with ceramic wasters (S38, find inventory number 58). 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
- Surface texture
- Rough
- Fracture color
- dark grey
- Inclusions (non-plastics/tempering)
- quartz, organic matter (?)
- Matrix and voids
- /
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- ARCH1.L1.A18
- Original inventory nr.
- A0007
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Matrix
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Reduced dark brown fabric; dark brown to black (PPL), black (XP).
Homogenous matrix, non calcareous without optical activity.
- ca. 45-60% - Inclusions
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Quartz (++; mono, poly, r-sr, silt - medium sand, weathering, alteration), sedimentary rock detritus (+-; possible quartz arenite, slightly metamorfed), chert (+-; r), feldspars (-; plagioclase; r, cf), muscovite mica (+; el, ff & cf), biotite mica (--; r, cf, weathered), O/Fe (+-), semi-plastics/clay pellets (+-; iron-rich inclusion-poor).
The coarse fraction varies from medium to fine sand, the fine fraction from very fine sand to silt. Grains are generally sub-rounded to rounded. Overall the fabric is moderately to poorly sorted.
- ca. 30-40% - Voids
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Small planar voids with good alignment parallel to edge, no infill. Relative large vughs and drying cracks surrounding iron-rich semi-plastics/clay pellets.
- 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 sedimentary rock, chert, opaques/iron oxides and semi-plastics/clay pellets, few feldspars and rare biotite mica. Overall moderate to poorly sorted.
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Pottery
- Inventory number
- 6.GR.BE.0011
- 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 b
- Full reference
-
Verdegem S. & Bracke M. 2019. Fluxys-gasleiding Alveringem-Maldegem. Archeologisch onderzoek Vol. 2. Lot 1&2: deelzone Lo-Reninge-Staden (Frontzone).
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Last modified: 2024-04-23.