| fabric type |
IAIT-C-2
|
| ware |
Coarse Wares |
| supposed site of production |
Monte Iato / Iaitas |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour light red, texture fine and compact, numerous small and few large inclusions |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
light red 2.5 YR 6/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
smooth |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-2.2 (vughy), 1.6, 1x 2.4 (channel) |
| inclusions |
15%, length: <0.04-0.8 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, grey, yellowish, reddish, clear, <0.04-0.8 |
|
mica |
infrequent, spherical - subspherical, white, dark, <0.04-0.08 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
riddled with?, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, yellowish-white, <0.04-0.4 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
singular, subspherical, white, yellowish-white, 2x 0.6 |
|
reddish inclusions |
frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish-brown, red, <0.04-0.8 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.28 |
|
foraminifera |
singular, very spherical, grey, 0.08-0.36 |
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