Medieval - Grey reduced ware (6.GR.BE.0028)
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- Category
- Grey reduced ware (Medieval)
- Fabric name
- Chronology
- Medieval > Late Medieval > 14-15th century CE
- Dating method(-s)
- typology, coin finds
- Potters' mark
- No
- Additional information
- wall fragment
Find location
- Site type
- Pottery production
- Location
- Belgium; Antwerpen; Antwerpen
- Site name
- Antwerpen, Korte Riddersstraat
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Oost T. & Ackermans J.; excavation in collaboration with Antwerpse Vereniging voor Bodem- en Grot onderzoek
- Additional contextual information
- excavation 1987; several pits with production waste were documented, contextual information: "put IX"
- Surface color
- grey
- Surface texture
- Rough
- Fracture color
- beige brown
- Inclusions (non-plastics/tempering)
- quartz, rare black inclusions
- Matrix and voids
- /
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- sample ANTW_KR_ST1a
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- ARCH1.L1.C5a
- Original inventory nr.
- A0046
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Matrix
-
Reduced brown-grey fabric; brown (PPL), dark brown (XP).
Semi-heterogeneous matrix, non-calcerous with low optical activity.
- ca. 40-55% - Inclusions
-
Quartz (++; mono++, poly--, weathering and alteration), sedimentary rock detritus (-; quartz arenite, weathering and alteration), chert/flint (-), feldspars (-; plagioclase, weathering and alteration), muscovite mica (++; el), O/Fe (+), clay pellets (-; iron-rich).
The coarse fraction consists of medium sand, the fine fraction consists of very fine to fine sand. Grains are generally rounded to subangular. Overall the fabric is moderately sorted and poorly orientated, close to single spaced.
- ca. 40-50% - Voids
-
Many small planar/channel voids and lager vughs, well aligned, no infill.
- ca. 5-10% - Diagnostic features
- The fabric is characterized by a semi-heterogeneous oxidised matrix with low optical activity and moderately low porosity. Dominant quartz and muscovite mica inclusions with frequent opaques/iron oxides and iron-rich clay pellets, few sedimentary rock detritus, chert/flint and feldspars. Overall moderately sorted fabric.
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Pottery
- Inventory number
- 6.GR.BE.0028
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Onroerenderfgoeddepot, Stad Antwerpen
- Host collection
- Onroerenderfgoeddepot, Stad Antwerpen
- Other samples available
- Yes
- Sample collection method
- Archaeological Excavation
Oost & Ackermans 1988a
- Full reference
-
Oost T. & Ackermans J. 1988. Middeleeuwse pottenbakkersafval opgegraven aan de Korte Ridderstraat. In: De Landtsheer G. (Ed.). Cultureel Jaarboek Stad Antwerpen 1987. Antwerpen: 37-39.
Oost & Ackermans 1988b
- Full reference
-
Oost T. & Ackermans J. 1988. Bakken en misbakken: middeleeuwse pottenbakkersafval aan de Korte Ridderstraat te Antwerpen. Archaeologia Mediaevalis 11: 14-15.
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Last modified: 2024-04-29.