Medieval - Handmade (6.HM.BE.0005)
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- Category
- Handmade (Medieval)
- Fabric name
- Chronology
- Medieval > High Medieval > second half of the 10th - first half of the 11th century CE
- Dating method(-s)
- morphological characteristics, radiocarbon dating
- Potters' mark
- No
- Additional information
- Handmade finished on a slow wheel, production almost exclusively dominated by globular pots (to a lesser extent: spouted pots and frying pans). Based on the morphological characteristics of the pottery, the production of the small kiln at Merelbeke can be dated to the second half of the 10th and the first half of the 11th century. Radiocarbon analysis of charcoal from the kiln itself do not contradict this, although the results are ambiguous (De Groote et al. 2007).
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- Site type
- Pottery production
- Location
- Belgium; Oost-Vlaanderen; Merelbeke
- Site name
- Merelbeke, Caritas
- Excavation or Survey Team
-
Wim De Clercq, Johan Deschieter and Guy De Mulder; Dienst Monumentenzorg & Cultuurpatrimonium (provincie Oost-Vlaanderen) &
Provinciaal Archeologisch Museum, site Velzeke - Additional contextual information
- Wasters found in the kiln itself (S303).
- Slip
- No
- Slip color
- Glaze
- No
- Glaze type
- Glaze color
- Glaze additives
- Additional information
- Slip
- No
- Slip color
- Glaze
- No
- Glaze type
- Glaze color
- Glaze additives
- Additional information
- Surface color
- grey
- Surface texture
- Rough
- Fracture color
- grey-brown-grey core-brown-grey
- Inclusions (non-plastics/tempering)
- quartz tempering (0,2-03 mm), clay pellets (1-2 mm, max. 5mm), grog fragment ?
- Matrix and voids
- /
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- sample MER-CAR ST3
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- ARCH1.L1.A25
- Original inventory nr.
- A0016
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Matrix
-
Reduced and oxidized fabric with dark brown core and light brown edge; brown (PPL), dark brown (XP).
Semi-heterogeneous matrix, non-calcareous with low to medium optical activity.
- ca. 50-65% - Inclusions
-
Quartz (++; cf: mono, poly, r-sr, medium - coarse sand; ff: mono, eq & el, sr-sa, very fine to fine sand; bimodal), sedimentary rock detritus (+-; possible quartz arenite, slightly metamorf?), chert/flint (+-; weathered, alteration), muscovite mica (+-; cf: eq & el; ff: el), feldspars (-; plagioclase: r, cf, weathering, alteration), O/Fe (+), semi-plastics/clay pellets (+; various iron-content, granulometry and boundaries, some close to grog).
The coarse fraction varies from coarse to medium sand, the fine fraction from fine to very fine sand. Coarse fraction grains are generally rounded to subrounded, fine fraction grains are generally subrounded to subangular. Bimodal, unclear if natural or added temper. Overall the fabric is very poorly sorted, poorly orientated and single to double spaced.
- ca. 20-30% - Voids
-
Planar voids, chanal and vughs with poor alignment, some infill (soil?). Drying cracks in and around semi-plastics/clay pellets.
- ca. 15-20% - Diagnostic features
- The fabric is characterized by a semi-heterogeneous reduced/oxidized matrix with low to medium optical activity and moderately high porosity. Dominant quartz inclusions with frequent opaques/iron oxides and semi-plastics/clay pellets, common sedimentary rock detritus, chert/flint, muscovite mica, and few feldspars. Bimodality possibly from sandy clay or sandy fraction added to the clay. Overall very poorly sorted fabric consisting of coarse inclusions in a fine matrix.
- Additional information
- Same fabric as A0015 and A0017, but different firing.
- Sample type
- Pottery
- Inventory number
- 6.HM.BE.0005
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Archeodepot, Archeocentrum Velzeke
- Host collection
- Archeodepot, Archeocentrum Velzeke
- Other samples available
- Yes
- Sample collection method
- Archaeological Excavation
De Groote et al. 2007
- Full reference
-
De Groote K., De Clercq W., Deforce K. & Moens J. 2007. Het aardewerk uit een 10de-/ vroeg 11 de-eeuwse pottenbakkersoven te Merelbeke (Oost-Vlaanderen, België). Corpus Middeleeuws Aardewerk (CMA), 18, 's Hertogenbosch.
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Last modified: 2024-04-27.