| fabric type |
IAIT-C-1
|
| ware |
Coarse Wares |
| supposed site of production |
Monte Iato / Iaitas |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour light red, texture fine and compact, numerous small and few large inclusions: white, red |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
light red 10 R 6/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy, channel)-0.5 (vughy), 0.8 (channel) |
| inclusions |
20%, length: <0.04-1.2 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
| |
Inclusions
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|
quartz |
infrequent, well rounded - rounded, angular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, clear, grey, 0.04-0.48 |
|
mica |
infrequent, subelongate, elongate, white, <0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
riddled with, rounded, very sperical - subspherical, elongate, white, yellowish-white, <0.04-0.56 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, yellowish white, 0.04-0.4 |
|
reddish inclusions |
frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, reddish brown, red, <0.04-1.2 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.6 |
|
more inclusions2 |
singular, rounded, subspherical, pale brown, grog, 0.6 |
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