Medieval - Grey reduced ware (6.GR.BE.0026)
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- 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 4; 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
- dark grey
- Surface texture
- Rough
- Fracture color
- orange brown
- Inclusions (non-plastics/tempering)
- quartz (some rare large grains, 1 mm); some rare angular black inclusions (?)
- Matrix and voids
- small vesicles and vughs
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- sample MECH_JS_ST6
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- ARCH1.L1.B13b
- Original inventory nr.
- A0029
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Matrix
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Reduced red fabric dark brown edge (surface); redbrown - dark brown (PPL), dark brown (XP).
Semi-heterogeneous matrix, non-calcareous with low to medium optical activity.
- ca. 50-60% - Inclusions
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Quartz (++; mono+, poly-, weathered and altered, cf: r-sr, medium to coarse sand, ff: sr-sa, very fine to fine sand, bimodal: unclear if natural or added temper), sedimentary rock detritus (+-; quartz arenite), chert/flint (+-), low grade metamorphic rock detritus (+-), feldspars (+; plagioclase, microcline, orthoclase, r-sr, cf & ff), muscovite mica (++; eq & el, cf & ff), glauconite (+-; r, red body color with black edges), O/Fe (+), clay pellets (-).
The coarse fraction consists of medium to coarse sand, the fine fraction consists of fine to very fine sand. Grains are generally rounded to subangular. Overall the fabric is moderately sorted and moderately orientated, close to double spaced.
- ca. 30-35% - Voids
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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 matrix with low to medium optical activity and moderate porosity. Dominant quartz and muscovite mica inclusions with frequent feldspars and opaques/iron oxides, common sedimentary rock detritus, chert/flint, low grade metamorphic rock detritus and glauconite, and few clay pellets. Overall moderately sorted fabric.
- Additional information
- Bimodal distribution, possible addition of glauconitic sand (as A0029.5 and maybe A0028.3), but unclear.
- Sample type
- Pottery
- Inventory number
- 6.GR.BE.0026
- 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
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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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