Medieval - Red oxidized ware (6.RO.BE.0009)
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- Category
- Red oxidized ware (Medieval)
- Fabric name
- Chronology
- Medieval > Late Medieval > 1250-1300
- Dating method(-s)
- typology
- Potters' mark
- No
- Additional information
Find location
- Site type
- Pottery production
- Location
- Belgium; Oost-Vlaanderen; Stekene
- Site name
- Kemzeke, Verkeerswisselaar
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Archeologische Dienst Waasland (ADW)
- Additional contextual information
- KE.VW99/10A; pit with potters waste (?)
- Surface color
- orange
- Surface texture
- Rough
- Fracture color
- orange
- Inclusions (non-plastics/tempering)
- abundancy of quartz (rounded and subangular), several up to 1-2 mm; oval orange-red inclusions (1-2 mm) (clay pellets ?)
- Matrix and voids
- small vughs and vesicles
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- sample KE_VW_ST1
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- ARCH1.L1.B4a
- Original inventory nr.
- A0020
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Matrix
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Oxidized red fabric; redbrown (PPL), brown (XP).
Semi-homogenous matrix, non-calcareous with low to medium optical activity.
- ca. 45-60% - Inclusions
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Quartz (++; mono, poly, r-sr, weathering, alteration, cf: medium sand, ff: fine to very fine sand; bimodal), sedimentary rock detritus (+-; possible quartz arenite, possibly some low metamorphic), chert (+-), muscovite mica (+-; ff, el), feldspars (+; plagioclase, orthoclase: r, cf & ff), O/Fe (+), clay pellets (+-, iron-rich).
The coarse fraction consists of medium sand, the fine fraction varies from fine to very fine sand. Grains are generally rounded to subrounded. Bimodal, most likely natural. Overall the fabric is moderately to poorly sorted and orientated, single spaced.
- ca. 30-40% - Voids
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Small planar voids and larger vughs, well aligned parallel to the edge, some infill.
- ca. 10-15% - Diagnostic features
- The fabric is characterized by a semi-homgenous oxidized matrix with low to medium optical activity and moderate porosity. Dominant quartz inclusions with frequent feldspars and opaques/iron oxides, common sedimentary rock detritus, chert/flint, muscovite mica, iron-rich clay pellets. Bimodal (natural). Overall moderately poorly sorted fabric.
- Additional information
- Possible red glauconite, difficult to distinguish from red iron oxides. Unidentified mineral: blue interference color in XP, no visible internal structure. Probably same fabric as A0020.2, but different firing.
- Sample type
- Pottery
- Inventory number
- 6.RO.BE.0009
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Onroerenderfgoeddepot Waasland, Erfpunt
- Host collection
- Onroerenderfgoeddepot Waasland, Erfpunt
- Other samples available
- Yes
- Sample collection method
- Archaeological Excavation
Dewulf 1975
- Full reference
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Dewulf M. 1975. De 14de eeuwse ceramiek van Kemzeke. Annalen van de Koninklijke Oudheidkundige Kring van het Land van Waas 78: 217-221.
Van Roeyen & Van Hove 1992
- Full reference
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Van Roeyen J.P. & Van Hove R. 1992. Kemzeke-Verkeerswisselaar. Jaarverslag 1991. Archeologische Dienst Waasland : 23-29.
Van Roeyen 2000
- Full reference
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Van Roeyen J.P. 2000. Een middeleeuwse pottenbakkerij aan de verkeerswisselaar te Kemzeke. d'Euzie. Tijdschrift van de Heemkundige Kring voor Groot-Stekene 19: 9-10.
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