Medieval - Grey reduced ware (6.GR.BE.0017)
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- Category
- Grey reduced ware (Medieval)
- Fabric name
- Chronology
- Medieval > Late Medieval > 1250-1350 ?
- Dating method(-s)
- /
- Potters' mark
- No
- Additional information
- date based on preliminary determination by F.Verhaeghe
Find location
- Site type
- Pottery production
- Location
- Belgium; West-Vlaanderen; Ichtegem
- Site name
- Ichtegem, spoorwegbedding
- Excavation or Survey Team
- M. Pyck, P. Verdonck, E. Cools
- Additional contextual information
- CAI code 305160; no contextual information; archaeological field survey in combination with limited trial trench evaluation (1983-1984-1985-1986); thick layer(-s) with potters waste; inventory number MTA: Ichtegem MTA, 3, TA-1987-6/7
- Surface color
- grey
- Surface texture
- Rough
- Fracture color
- brown
- Inclusions (non-plastics/tempering)
- quartz; grog fragments; oval clay pellets (?)
- Matrix and voids
- medium sized vesicles and vughs
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- ARCH1.L1.B22
- Original inventory nr.
- A0038
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Matrix
-
Reduced fabric with grey core and brown edges; core is grey/brown/black and edges are brown to black, brown and grey (PPL), black dark grey and grey (XP).
Very heterogeneous matrix, non-calcerous with low to medium optical activity.
- ca. 55-75% - Inclusions
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Quartz (++; mono+, poly-, weathering and alteration), sedimentary rock detritus (+; quartz arenite), chert/flint (+), metamorphic rock detritus (+; low grade and high grade), feldspars (+-; plagioclase, microcline, orthoclase, weathering and alteration), muscovite mica (-; el), glauconite (+-; red-brown body color), grog/semi-plastics (+; mainly black in PPL, clear to diffuse boundaries, sr-r, prolate/equant and distorted shape, concordant and discordant features, quartz inclusions, black color indication of iron and/or organic content?), clay pellets/semi-plastics (+; iron-rich, iron-poor, brown/red/black/light brown matrix colors), organic matter (probably infill).
The inclusions range from fine to medium/coarse sand sizes and represent a sand temper added to a silt-rich/very fine sandy clay. Grains are generally rounded to subangular. Overall the fabric is very poorly sorted and very poorly orientated, close to open spaced.
- ca. 20-40% - Voids
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Few vughs, drying cracks in grog/cp/sp, some infill of iron-rich soil and/or organic material, moderately aligned.
- ca. 5% - Diagnostic features
- The fabric is characterized by a very heterogeneous reduced matrix with low to medium optical activity and low porosity. Dominant quartz inclusions with frequent sedimentary and metamorphic rock detritus, chert/flint, grog/clay pellets/semi-plastics, common feldspars and glauconite, and few muscovite mica. Overall very poorly sorted fabric.
- Additional information
-
Fabric is an assortment of semi-plastic inclusions and various clay zones. Most likely the result of very poor mixing of a fine basic clay (silt and very fine sand) with sand temper (glauconitic?) and crushed pottery (waste) fragments.
*Possible different composition of core and edges since glauconite mainly occurs in the outer layers.
**Unidentified coarse grain: rounded, brown with dark core. Possible bone fragment.
- Sample type
- Pottery
- Inventory number
- 6.GR.BE.0017
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Museum Torhouts Aardewerk (M. Logghe)
- Host collection
- Museum Torhouts Aardewerk
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Loose Find
Cools & Pyck 1987
- Full reference
-
Cools E. & Pyck M. 1987. Sporen van middeleeuwse aardewerkproductie te Ichtegem. West-Vlaamse Archaeologica 3, 3: 101-103.
Verhaeghe 1985
- Full reference
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Verhaeghe F. 1985. Middeleeuws pottenbakkersafval te Ichtegem. Archeologie 1985, 2: 116-117.
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