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MALTA-C-2

fabric descriptionobject dataarchaeometry
fabric type MALTA-C-2
fabric previously published as F. 1
ware Coarse Wares
Local Plain
supposed site of production Malta
certainty of arguments archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break colour yellowish red, core grey, texture coarse and compact, numerous fine to large inclusions: white, yellow, black, voids
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) light red 2.5 YR 6/6, core grey 2.5 YR 5/0
texture of freshly broken surface irregular
hardness hard
porosity 7.5%; void form: vughy (0.04-4.4), channel (0.06-4.0); void length: 0.04-4.4
inclusions 12.5%, length: <0.04-1.8
sorting unsorted
 

Inclusions

mica very frequent, elongate, angular, spherical, white, <0.04-0.08
calciumcarbonate very frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, yellowish, white, <0.04-1.4
carbonate pseudomorphoses infrequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, yellowish, white, 0.12-0.4
reddish inclusions very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical subspherical, elongate - subelongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.8
black inclusions very frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, very elongate, black, <0.04-0.12
foraminifera frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, very elongate, white, 0.08-0.5
more inclusions2 very frequent, angular - very angular, subspherical - subelongate, grey, yellowish, reddish, white, 0.08-1.8
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