fabric description | object data | archaeometry |
fabric type | VEL-C-3 |
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ware |
Coarse Wares Banded Ware |
supposed site of production | Velia |
certainty of arguments | archaeometric: certain |
visual excamination of fresh break | reddish yellow, irregular; many fine to medium-sized white inclusions, some red inclusions |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | 5YR6/6 |
texture of freshly broken surface | irregular |
hardness | hard |
porosity | 5%; void form: channel; vughy; void length: 0.12-0.8 |
inclusions | 10%, length: 0.04-0.8 |
sorting | bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
Inclusions |
|
quartz | frequent, angular, spherical, white; clear, 0.08-0.8 |
mica | frequent, angular, spherical, white, 0.04 |
reddish inclusions | infrequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, reddish brown, 0.2-0.3 |
grey inclusions | infrequent, rounded, spherical - elongate, dark grey, 0.08-1.6 |
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