| 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 yellowish brown, texture very coarse, numerous large inclusions: white, yellowish, reddish, grey, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | pink 7.5 YR 7/4 |
| texture of freshly broken surface | granular |
| hardness | soft |
| porosity | 15%; void form: vughy (0.06-4.0), channel (0.08-3.6); void length: 0.04-4.0 |
| inclusions | 25%, length: <0.04-5.0 |
| sorting | unsorted |
Inclusions |
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| quartz | infrequent, well rounded, angular, spherical - subspherical, white, grey, 0.04-0.16 |
| mica | infrequent, angular, elongate, white, dark, <0.04-0.04 |
| calciumcarbonate | frequent, rounded - subrounded, subspherical, subelongate, white, yellowish, 0.04-1.6 |
| carbonate pseudomorphoses | singular, rounded, subspherical, white, 0.2-2.0 |
| reddish inclusions | frequent, rounded, spherical, elongate, subelongate, very elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.7 |
| black inclusions | frequent, spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.08 |
| foraminifera | frequent, well rounded, rounded, very spherical, subspherical, very elongate, grey, 0.08-0.6 |
| more inclusions2 | infrequent, rounded - subrounded, subangular - very angular, spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellowish, yellowish grey, 0.08-5.0 |
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