Medieval - Grey reduced ware (6.GR.BE.0013)
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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 61). 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
- grey (orange brown oxidation phase)
- Inclusions (non-plastics/tempering)
- quartz, clay pellets ?
- Matrix and voids
- /
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- FLAZ_53_ST3
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- ARCH1.L1.A20
- Original inventory nr.
- A0010
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Matrix
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Reduced brown core, dark brown edges and a thin exterior redbrown layer on one side (possible oxidized finish); brown to dark brown (PPL), dark brown to black (XP).
Semi-homgenous matrix, non-calcareous with no to medium optical activity (reduced vs oxidized).
- ca. 35-50% - Inclusions
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Quartz (++; mono, poly, r-sr, silt - fine sand, weathering, alteration), sedimentary rock detritus (+-), muscovite mica (+; el, ff & cf), feldspars (+-; plagioclase, orthoclase: r, cf), glauconite (+; r, cf), pyroxene (--), O/Fe (+), semi-plastics/clay pellets (+; iron-rich inclusion-poor).
The coarse fraction varies from coarse to fine sand, the fine fraction from very fine sand to silt. Grain are generally subrounded to rounded. Overall the fabric is moderately sorted.
- ca. 40-50% - Voids
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Small planar voids and larger vughs with good alignment parallel to the edge, no infill. Drying cracks in and around semi-plastics/clay pellets.
- ca. 10-15% - Diagnostic features
- The fabric is characterized by a semi-homogenous red-ox matrix with low to medium optical activity and moderate porosity. Dominant quartz inclusions with frequent muscovite mica, glauconite, opaques/iron oxides and semi-plastics/clay pellets, common sedimentary rock detritus, feldspars, and rare pyroxene. Overall poorly sorted.
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Pottery
- Inventory number
- 6.GR.BE.0013
- 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: 2024-05-02.