| 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, yellowish, red, grey, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | 7.5 YR 6/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface | granular |
| hardness | soft |
| porosity | 15%; void form: vughy (0.06-9.6), channel (0.08-1.6); void length: 0,06-9.6 |
| inclusions | 22.5%, length: <0.04-5.0 |
| sorting | unsorted |
Inclusions |
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| quartz | infrequent, well rounded, very spherical, elongate, grey, white, clear, 0.04-0.2 |
| mica | infrequent, angular, spherical, white, dark, <0.04-0.04 |
| calciumcarbonate | riddled with, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, yellowish, white, 0.04-0.4 |
| carbonate pseudomorphoses | singular, rounded, spherical, white, 0.27-1.6 |
| reddish inclusions | very frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, <0.04-5.0 |
| black inclusions | infrequent, rounded, spherical, elongate, black, 0.04-0.2 |
| foraminifera | infrequent, rounded, very spherical, subspherical, yellowish grey, 0.12-0.28 |
| more inclusions2 | very frequent, subangular - very angular, subspherical - subelongate, elongate, yellowish brown, yellowish, reddish, 0.08-2.0 |
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