Post Medieval - Ceramic building material (7.CBM.BE.0008)
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- Category
- Ceramic building material (Post Medieval)
- Fabric name
- biscuit
- Chronology
- Post Medieval > Modern > 1556-1561/1562
- Dating method(-s)
- historical sources, typology, iconography
- Potters' mark
- No
- Additional information
- biscuit (waster) tile fragment; semi-finished tile; referred to as "rough fired ware"
Find location
- Site type
- Pottery production
- Location
- Belgium; Antwerpen; Antwerpen
- Site name
- Antwerpen, Steenhouwersvest
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Afdeling Opgravingen, Stad Antwerpen
- Additional contextual information
- site code: A117; context information: A117/7/T8; excavation 1993 (kiln + production waste); attributed to the workshop/pottery company of Lucas Andries (atelier De Goudbloem)
- Surface color
- beige white
- Surface texture
- Rough
- Fracture color
- beige white
- Inclusions (non-plastics/tempering)
- quartz; iron oxides (?); amorphous red inclusion (clay pellets ? grog ?); rare black inclusions (?)
- Matrix and voids
- very thin vughs and small vesicles; thin layered irregular lenses of red clay
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- sample ANTW_SV_ST3
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- ARCH1.L1.C10
- Original inventory nr.
- A0051
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Matrix
-
Oxidised white-yellow fabric; dark brown (PPL), dark brown (XP).
Homogenous matrix, non-calcerous with no optical activity: matrix partly near sintering/vitrification due to overfiring.
- ca. 55-70% - Inclusions
-
Quartz (++; mono+, poly-), sedimentary rock detritus (--; quartz arenite), metamorphic rock detritus (--, low grade), feldspars (--; plagioclase, orthoclase), muscovite mica (--; el), O/Fe (+-), clay pellets (-; iron-rich), clay pellets/semiplastics (--; large).
The coarse fraction consists of medium sand, the fine fraction consists of very fine to fine sand, bimodal (natural). Coarse grains are generally rounded to subrounded, fine grains subrounded to subangular. Overall the fabric is poorly sorted and poorly orientated, single to double spaced.
- ca. 25-35% - Voids
-
Planar/channel voids and vughs, well aligned, calcite infill.
- ca. 5-10% - Diagnostic features
- The fabric is characterized by a homogenous oxidised matrix with no optical activity (overfired: partly vitrified) and moderately low porosity. Dominant quartz inclusions with common opaques/iron oxides, few iron-rich clay pellets, and rare sedimentary and metamorphic rock detritus, feldspars, muscovite mica and large clay pellets/semi-plastics. Overall poorly sorted fabric.
- Additional information
- Matrix partly vitrified/sintered, ca. half of the sample.
- Sample type
- Building material (decorative, construction)
- Inventory number
- 7.CBM.BE.0008
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Onroerenderfgoeddepot, Stad Antwerpen
- Host collection
- Onroerenderfgoeddepot, Stad Antwerpen
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Archaeological Excavation
Dumortier & Veeckman 1994
- Full reference
-
Dumortier C. & Veeckman J. 1994. Un four de majoliques en activité à Anvers vers 1560. Bulletin van de Koninkljke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis. Jubelpark Brussel 65: 163-217.
Veeckman 1994
- Full reference
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Veeckman J. 1994. Een majolica-oven aan de Steenhouwersstraat te Antwerpen (Antw.). Archaeologia Mediaevalis 17: 5-7.
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