Medieval - Red oxidized ware (6.RO.BE.0008)
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- Category
- Red oxidized ware (Medieval)
- Fabric name
- Chronology
- Medieval > Late Medieval > 1250-1350 ?
- Dating method(-s)
- Potters' mark
- No
- Additional information
- date based on preliminary determination by F.Verhaeghe
Find location
- Site type
- Pottery production
- Location
- Belgium; West-Vlaanderen; Ichtegem
- Site name
- Ichtegem, spoorwegbedding
- Excavation or Survey Team
- M. Pyck, P. Verdonck, E. Cools
- Additional contextual information
- CAI code 305160; no contextual information; archaeological field survey in combination with limited trial trench evaluation (1983-1984-1985-1986); thick layer(-s) with potters waste; inventory number MTA: Ichtegem MTA, 9, TA-1987-13
- Surface color
- orange brown
- Surface texture
- Rough
- Fracture color
- orange
- Inclusions (non-plastics/tempering)
- quartz; orange and brown grog fragments; oval clay pellets (?)
- Matrix and voids
- small vesicles and vughs
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- ARCH1.L1.B21
- Original inventory nr.
- A0037
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Matrix
-
Oxidised brown fabric; brown (PPL), black with darkbrown edge (XP).
Semi-homogenous matrix, non-calcerous with no to low optical activity.
- ca. 40-55% - Inclusions
-
Quartz (++; mono+, poly-), sedimentary rock detritus (+; quartz arenite), chert/flint (+), metamorphic rock detritus (?; low grade), feldspars (+-; plagioclase, microcline), muscovite mica (--; eq, cf), glauconite (++; red body color), O/Fe (+), clay pellets/semi-plastics (+), organic matter (-).
The coarse fraction consists of fine to medium sand, the fine fraction consists of very fine to fine sand. Grains are generally rounded to subangular. Overall the fabric is moderately to poorly sorted and moderately to poorly orientated, close to single spaced.
- ca. 30-40% - Voids
-
Many vughs in various sizes, moderately aligned, no infill.
- ca. 15-20% - Diagnostic features
- The fabric is characterized by a semi-homogeneous oxidised matrix with no to low optical activity and high porosity. Dominant quartz and glauconite inclusions with frequent sedimentary and possibly metamorphic rock detritus, chert/flint, opaques/iron oxides and clay pellets/semi-plastics, common feldspars, few organic matter and rare muscovite mica. Overall moderately poor sorted fabric.
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Pottery
- Inventory number
- 6.RO.BE.0008
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Museum Torhouts Aardewerk (M. Logghe)
- Host collection
- Museum Torhouts Aardewerk
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Loose Find
Cools & Pyck 1987
- Full reference
-
Cools E. & Pyck M. 1987. Sporen van middeleeuwse aardewerkproductie te Ichtegem. West-Vlaamse Archaeologica 3, 3: 101-103.
Verhaeghe 1985
- Full reference
-
Verhaeghe F. 1985. Middeleeuws pottenbakkersafval te Ichtegem. Archeologie 1985, 2: 116-117.
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Last modified: 2024-04-27.