| fabric description | object data | archaeometry |
| fabric type | MALTA-HP-1 |
|---|---|
| ware |
Handmade Pottery Local Handmade |
| supposed site of production | Malta |
| certainty of arguments | archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break | colour light reddish brown, core dark grey, texture very coarse, numerous fine to large inclusions: yellowish, reddish, black, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | pink 7.5 YR 7/4, core grey 7.5 YR 5/0 |
| texture of freshly broken surface | granular |
| hardness | soft |
| porosity | 15%; void form: vughy (0.08-5.6), channel (0.08-2.4); void length: 0.08-5.6 |
| inclusions | 25%, length: <0.04-4.8 |
| sorting | unsorted |
Inclusions |
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| quartz | infrequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, grey, 0.12-0.28 |
| mica | infrequent, angular, elongate, white, <0.04-0.04 |
| calciumcarbonate | very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, subangular, spherical - subspherical, subelongate - very elongate, yellowish, white, grey, <0.04-2.4 |
| carbonate pseudomorphoses | infrequent, rounded, subspherical, white, 0.04-1.0 |
| reddish inclusions | frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-1.2 |
| black inclusions | frequent, subrounded, subangular - angular, elongate, black, 0.04-0.72 |
| foraminifera | frequent, well rounded, rounded, very spherical, subspherical, very elongate, grey, white, 0.16-0.8 |
| more inclusions2 | very frequent, subangular - very angular, spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, yellowish brown, greyish white, 0.08-4.8 |
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