| 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 reddish brown, texture coarse, numerous fine to large inclusions: white, red, grey, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | reddish yellow 5 YR 6/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface | granular |
| hardness | soft |
| porosity | 15%; void form: vughy (0.08-3.2), channel (0.08-1.2); void length: 0,08-3.2 |
| inclusions | 25%, length: <0.04-1.8 |
| sorting | unsorted |
Inclusions |
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| quartz | singular, rounded, subspherical, grey, 0.2 |
| mica | infrequent, angular, spherical, white, <0.04 |
| calciumcarbonate | riddled with, well rounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, yellowish, white, 0,04-1.0 |
| reddish inclusions | frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.8 |
| black inclusions | infrequent, subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.2 |
| foraminifera | infrequent, well rounded, very spherical, very elongate, white, 0.08-0.16 |
| more inclusions2 | very frequent, subangular - very angular, subspherical - subelongate, yellowish brown, yellowish white, reddish, 0.08-1.8 |
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