| fabric type |
CdE-A-2
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Circulo del Estrecho |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour pale brown and pale red, texture middle fine, frequent small and few large inclusions: grey, black, red, white, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
very pale brown 10 YR 8/3, core pink 5 YR 8/4 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
7.5%; void form: vughy, chambers, channel; void length: 0.04-1.1 |
| inclusions |
17.5%, length: <0.04-1.0 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
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Inclusions
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|
quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, grey, clear, reddish, white, 0.04-1.0 |
|
mica |
singular, spherical, white, <0.04-0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, yellowish white, white, 0.04-0.5 |
|
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.28 |
|
black inclusions |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, very elongate, black, <0.04-0.7 |
|
foraminifera |
infrequent, subspherical, subelongate, white, 0.28-0.4 |
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