Medieval - Red oxidized ware (6.RO.BE.0002)
Find location
- Category
- Red oxidized ware (Medieval)
- Fabric name
- Badorf-type ware
- Chronology
- Medieval > Early Medieval > Carolingian (8-9th century)
- Dating method(-s)
- morphological characteristics, radiocarbon dating
- Potters' mark
- No
- Additional information
- radiocarbon dates based on charcoal fragments from layers inside the kiln (7-8th century) are in contrast with the morphological aspects
Find location
- Site type
- Pottery production
- Location
- Belgium; Antwerpen; Beerse
- Site name
- Beerse, Asterstraat
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Excavations: ArcheoService (M. Vroomans); post-excavation: Erfgoedhuis Eindhoven, Archeologische Vereniging Kempen- en Peelland in collaboration with Nico Arts (gemeente Eindhoven) and Stephan Delaruelle (Archeologische Dienst Antwerpse Kempen).
- Additional contextual information
- excavation permit code: 2014/379; site-code: BE-AS-14; kiln feature numbers (wp3/S86, S206)
- 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
- orange
- Surface texture
- Rough
- Fracture color
- orange-grey-orange
- Inclusions (non-plastics/tempering)
- quartz, oval red inclusions (up to several mm's) (=iron oxides ? clay pellets ?), a rare grog fragment
- Matrix and voids
- /
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- BEERS-AST ST2
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- ARCH1.L1.A12b
- Original inventory nr.
- A0002
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Matrix
-
Reduced core and oxidized edges: Orange-red and grey fabric; darkgrey/black and brown (PPL), black and brown (XP).
Homogenous matrix, non-calcerous with medium optical activity.
- ca. 55-70% - Inclusions
-
Quartz (++; mono, poly, r-sr, silt-medium/coarse sand, weathering, intergrowth, stress), sedimentary rock detritus, feldspars (--; plagioclase; r, cf), muscovite mica (--; el, ff), O/Fe (+; 1 very coarse sand grain), semi-plastics (--; slightly different composition).
The coarse fraction varies from coarse to fine sand, the fine fraction from very fine sand to silt. Possibly bimodal. Grains are generally sub-rounded to rounded. Overall the fabric is poorly sorted.
- ca. 20-30% - Voids
-
Small to large vughs and channels, mainly located in the reduced core of the fabric, well aligned parallel to edge, some secondary calcite observed as infill.
- ca. 5-15% - Diagnostic features
- The fabric is characterized by a reduced core and oxidized edges. The matrix is homogenous with medium optical activity and moderate porosity. Dominant quartz inclusions with common sedimentary rock inclusions and opaques/iron oxides, few muscovite mica flakes, feldspars and semi-plastics. The coarse fraction very likely represents a sand temper. Observations have been made of a singular iron oxide of very coarse sand grain size. Overall poorly sorted.
- Additional information
- Very likely sand temper (coarse fraction). Section of reduced core can be observed to 'bulge' into the oxidized edge.
- Sample type
- Pottery
- Inventory number
- 6.RO.BE.0002
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Nico Arts (gemeente Eindhoven)
- Host collection
- Archeologische Dienst Antwerpse Kempen/Erfgoedhuis Eindhoven
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Archaeological Excavation
Arts et al. 2019
- Full reference
-
Arts N., Deforce K. & Heirbaut E. 2019. A Carolingian settlement with two kilns of Badorf-type pottery at Beerse (Campine Region, Belgium). Unpublished article draft: 1-22.
Vroomans, 2014
- Full reference
-
Vroomans J.-M. 2014. Beerse - Asterstraat. Evaluatierapport van het definitief archeologisch onderzoek. Archeologisch rapport ArcheoService.
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Last modified: 2024-04-26.