Medieval - Red oxidized ware: lead glazed (6.ROLG.BE.0007)
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- Category
- Red oxidized ware: lead glazed (Medieval)
- Fabric name
- Chronology
- Medieval > Late Medieval > 1300-1350
- Dating method(-s)
- typology
- Potters' mark
- No
- Additional information
- rim fragment
Find location
- Site type
- Pottery production
- Location
- Belgium; Antwerpen; Mechelen
- Site name
- Mechelen, Jodenstraat
- Excavation or Survey Team
- W. De Jonge, D. De Preter (v.z.w. Archeologisch Erfgoed Mechelen)
- Additional contextual information
- feature 2; categorized as loose finds; potters waste assemblage found during construction works in the Jodenstraat (1991-1997); ground plans and other scientific documentation are lacking; the ceramic assemblage has been studied in the framework of the doctoral research of A. De Poorter (De Poorter 2005)
- 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-red
- Surface texture
- Rough
- Fracture color
- orange
- Inclusions (non-plastics/tempering)
- quartz (rare grains up to 1 mm); small red (ferrous?) inclusions
- Matrix and voids
- small vesicles and vughs
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- sample MECH_JS_ST3
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- ARCH1.L1.B12a
- Original inventory nr.
- A0028
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Matrix
-
Oxidised red fabric; brown (PPL), dark brown (XP).
Semi-heterogeneous matrix, non-calcareous with no to low optical activity.
- ca. 60-70% - Inclusions
-
Quartz (++; mono+, poly-, weathered and altered, cf: r-sr, fine to medium sand, ff: sr-sa, very fine to fine sand, naturally bimodal), sedimentary rock detritus (+-; quartz arenite), chert/flint (+-), feldspars (+-; plagioclase, microcline, orthoclase, r-sr, cf & ff), muscovite mica (+-; eq & el, cf & ff), glauconite (+: r, cf, red body color), amphibole/pyroxene (-; r, ff), O/Fe (+), clay pellets (-), organic matter (-; plant and possible single bone inclusion).
The coarse fraction consists of fine to medium sand, the fine fraction consists of fine to very fine sand. Grains are generally rounded to subangular. Overall the fabric is moderately sorted and moderately orientated, single to double spaced.
- ca. 20-25% - Voids
-
Many small planar voids and few larger vughs, well aligned, some infill.
- ca. 10-15% - Diagnostic features
- The fabric is characterized by a semi-heterogeneous oxidised matrix with no to low optical activity and moderate porosity. Dominant quartz inclusions with frequent glauconite and opaques/iron oxides, common sedimentary rock detritus, chert/flint, feldspars and muscovite mica, few amphibole/pyroxene, clay pellets and organic matter. Overall moderately sorted fabric.
- Additional information
- Possible addition of glauconitic sand, unclear.
- Sample type
- Pottery
- Inventory number
- 6.ROLG.BE.0007
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Museum Kunst & Geschiedenis (Jubelparkmuseum/Le Musée du Cinquantenaire)
- Host collection
- Museum Kunst & Geschiedenis (Jubelparkmuseum/Le Musée du Cinquantenaire)
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Loose Find
De Poorter 2001
- Full reference
-
De Poorter A. 2001. Pottenbakkersafval van laatmiddeleeuws hoogversierd aardewerk uit Mechelen. Vormen uit het vuur. Mededelingsblad Nederlandse vereniging van vrienden van ceramiek
en glas 174: 8-25.
De Poorter 2005
- Full reference
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De Poorter A. 2005. Gebruiksaardewerk in het zuidelijk gedeelte van het voormalig Hertogdom Brabant (1200-1800). Doctoraal proefschrift ingediend tot het bekomen van de graad van doctor in de Kunstwetesnchappen en Archeologie, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Brussel.
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