Medieval - Grey reduced ware (6.GR.BE.0027)
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- Category
- Grey reduced ware (Medieval)
- Fabric name
- Chronology
- Medieval > Late Medieval > 14-15th century CE
- Dating method(-s)
- typology, stratigraphy
- Potters' mark
- No
- Additional information
- handle fragment
Find location
- Site type
- Pottery production
- Location
- Belgium; Vlaams-Brabant; Leuven
- Site name
- Leuven, Alfons Smetsplein
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Ruben Willaert bvba, Afdeling archeologie; J. De Gryse & J. Ooms
- Additional contextual information
- site code: LE-06-HPL; CAI code: 1999; feature S45, filling of the partially conserved kiln (above floor level, bottom layer)
- Slip
- No
- Slip color
- Glaze
- No
- Glaze type
- Glaze color
- Glaze additives
- Additional information
- Surface color
- dark grey
- Surface texture
- Rough
- Fracture color
- grey
- Inclusions (non-plastics/tempering)
- quartz (rare grains up to 1 mm)
- Matrix and voids
- /
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- sample LE_HPL_ST3
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- ARCH1.L1.A23
- Original inventory nr.
- A0013
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Matrix
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Reduced grey fabric with fine dark edge; browngrey (PPL), dark brown (XP).
Semi-homogenous matrix, non-calcareous with no optical activity.
- ca. 45-60% - Inclusions
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Quartz (++; cf: mono, r, medium - coarse sand; ff: mono, poly, r-sr, very fine to fine sand; bimodal), sedimentary rock detritus (+-; possible quartz arenite), chert/flint (+-), muscovite mica (+; eq & el, ff & cf), feldspars (--; plagioclase, orthoclase: ff, r, weathered), glauconite (+; red to brown in PPL, r, ff), pyroxene (--; r, ff), O/Fe (+; ff & cf), semi-plastics/clay pellets (+-; iron-rich)
The coarse fraction varies from coarse to medium sand, the fine fraction from fine sand to very fine sand. Coarse fraction grains are generally rounded, fine fraction grains are generally rounded to subrounded. Bimodality of all inclusions (natural). Overall the fabric is moderately to poorly sorted.
- ca. 30-40% - Voids
-
Small planar voids and vughs with circular alignment (round cross-section), no infill. Drying cracks in and around semi-plastics/clay pellets.
- ca. 10-15% - Diagnostic features
- The fabric is characterized by a semi-homogenous reduced matrix with no optical activity and moderate porosity. Dominant quartz inclusions with frequent muscovite mica, glauconite and opaques/iron oxides, common sedimentary rock detritus, chert/flint and semi-plastics/clay pellets, and rare feldspars and pyroxene. Bimodality most likely from sandy clay (no temper). Overall moderately to poorly sorted.
- Additional information
- Similar mineralogical profile as A0011 and A0012, but prepared and fired differently. Probably same clay source.
- Sample type
- Pottery
- Inventory number
- 6.GR.BE.0027
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Onroerend Erfgoeddepot Vlaams-Brabant-LOODS 68
- Host collection
- Onroerend Erfgoeddepot Vlaams-Brabant-LOODS 68
- Other samples available
- Yes
- Sample collection method
- Archaeological Excavation
De Gryse & Ooms 2007
- Full reference
-
De Gryse J. & Ooms J. 2007 Archeologisch onderzoek op het A. Smetsplein (Leuven). Onuitgegeven opgravingsverslag Ruben Willaert Bvba. Afdeling archeologie, Damme: 67.
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