Medieval - Red oxidized ware: lead glazed (6.ROLG.BE.0005)
Find location
- Category
- Red oxidized ware: lead glazed (Medieval)
- Fabric name
- Chronology
- Medieval > Late Medieval > 1250-1300
- Dating method(-s)
- typology
- Potters' mark
- No
- Additional information
- misfire; note the presence of glaze on the fracture
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 (?)
- Slip
- No
- Slip color
- Glaze
- Yes
- Glaze type
- lead glaze
- Glaze color
- orange
- Glaze additives
- Additional information
- splashed glaze
- Slip
- No
- Slip color
- Glaze
- Yes
- Glaze type
- lead glaze
- Glaze color
- orange
- Glaze additives
- Additional information
- splashed glaze
- Surface color
- orange
- Surface texture
- Rough
- Fracture color
- orange
- Inclusions (non-plastics/tempering)
- abundancy of quartz (rounded and subangular); rare black grains (?)
- Matrix and voids
- small vughs and vesicles
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- sample KE_VW_ST3
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- ARCH1.L1.B5a
- Original inventory nr.
- A0021
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Matrix
-
Oxidised red fabric; dark brown core and brown edge (PPL), black (XP).
Semi-heterogeneous matrix, non-calcareous with low optical activity.
- ca. 55-70% - Inclusions
-
Quartz (++; mono, poly, cf: r, medium to coarse sand, some weathering, ff: sr-sa, very fine sand, weathering, alteration, eq & el; bimodal), sedimentary rock detritus (+; possible quartz arenite, some slightly metamorf), chert/flint (+), muscovite mica (+-; cf & ff, eq & el), feldspars (+-; plagioclase, orthoclase, microcline: r, cf), amphibole/pyroxene (-; r, cf, weathered), O/Fe (+-), semiplastics/clay pellets (+-, iron-rich, one pebble size).
The coarse fraction consists of medium to coarse sand, the fine fraction consists of very fine sand. Grains are generally rounded to subangular. Bimodal, possible sand temper. Overall the fabric is very poorly sorted and poorly orientated, single to double spaced.
- ca. 20-30% - Voids
-
Small planar voids and larger vughs, well aligned parallel to the edge, no infill.
- ca. 10-15% - Diagnostic features
- The fabric is characterized by a semi-heterogeneous oxidized matrix with low optical activity and moderate porosity. Dominant quartz inclusions with frequent sedimentary rock detritus and chert/flint, common feldspars, muscovite mica, opaques/iron oxides and iron-rich semi-plastics/clay pellets, and few amphibole/pyroxene. Bimodal, possible sand temper. Overall very poorly sorted fabric.
- Additional information
- Zone of densily packed cf quartz minerals, feldspar and mica with Fe-staining and Fe-rich matrix in between (close space). Possible relic of poorly mixed sand? Similar fabric as A0020.1, but higher firing temperature and coarser Fe content.
- Sample type
- Pottery
- Inventory number
- 6.ROLG.BE.0005
- 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
-
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
-
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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