Medieval - Grey reduced ware (6.GR.BE.0024)
Find location
- Category
- Grey reduced ware (Medieval)
- Fabric name
- Chronology
- Medieval > Late Medieval > 1300-1350
- Dating method(-s)
- typology
- Potters' mark
- No
- Additional information
Find location
- Site type
- Pottery production
- Location
- Belgium; Antwerpen; Mechelen
- Site name
- Mechelen, Jodenstraat
- Excavation or Survey Team
- W. De Jonge, D. De Preter (v.z.w. Archeologisch Erfgoed Mechelen)
- Additional contextual information
- feature 2; categorized as loose finds; potters waste assemblage found during construction works in the Jodenstraat (1991-1997); ground plans and other scientific documentation are lacking; the ceramic assemblage has been studied in the framework of the doctoral research of A. De Poorter (De Poorter 2005)
- Surface color
- grey
- Surface texture
- Rough
- Fracture color
- beige-orange
- Inclusions (non-plastics/tempering)
- quartz (rare grains up to 1 mm)
- Matrix and voids
- small vesicles
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- sample MECH_JS_ST4
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- ARCH1.L1.B12b
- Original inventory nr.
- A0028
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Matrix
-
Reduced layered fabric with grey core, redbrown inner layers, light brown outer layers and dark brown edge (surface); core to edge: light brown - redbrown - brown - darkbrown (PPL), brown - redbrown - dark brown (XP).
Semi-heterogeneous matrix, non-calcareous with low to medium optical activity.
- ca. 55-65% - Inclusions
-
Quartz (++; mono+, poly-, cf: r-sa, fine to medium/coarse sand, ff: sr-sa, very fine to fine sand, naturally bimodal), sedimentary rock detritus (-; quartz arenite), chert/flint (-), low grade metamorphic rock detritus (-), feldspars (--; orthoclase), muscovite mica (+; eq & el, cf & ff), O/Fe (+), organic matter (--).
The coarse fraction consists of fine to medium/coarse sand, the fine fraction consists of fine to very fine sand. Grains are generally rounded to subangular. Overall the fabric is poorly sorted and poorly orientated, single spaced.
- ca. 25-30% - Voids
-
Many small planar voids and few larger vughs, well aligned, no infill.
- ca. 10-15% - Diagnostic features
- The fabric is characterized by a semi-heterogeneous reduced layered matrix with low to medium optical activity and moderate porosity. Dominant quartz inclusions with frequent muscovite mica and opaques/iron oxides, few sedimentary rock detritus, chert/flint, low grade metamorphic rock detritus and organic matter, and rare feldspars. Overall poorly sorted fabric.
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Pottery
- Inventory number
- 6.GR.BE.0024
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Museum Kunst & Geschiedenis (Jubelparkmuseum/Le Musée du Cinquantenaire)
- Host collection
- Museum Kunst & Geschiedenis (Jubelparkmuseum/Le Musée du Cinquantenaire)
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Loose Find
De Poorter 2001
- Full reference
-
De Poorter A. 2001. Pottenbakkersafval van laatmiddeleeuws hoogversierd aardewerk uit Mechelen. Vormen uit het vuur. Mededelingsblad Nederlandse vereniging van vrienden van ceramiek
en glas 174: 8-25.
De Poorter 2005
- Full reference
-
De Poorter A. 2005. Gebruiksaardewerk in het zuidelijk gedeelte van het voormalig Hertogdom Brabant (1200-1800). Doctoraal proefschrift ingediend tot het bekomen van de graad van doctor in de Kunstwetesnchappen en Archeologie, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Brussel.
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