| fabric type |
IAIT-C-1
|
| ware |
Coarse Wares |
| supposed site of production |
Monte Iato / Iaitas |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour light red, edges light brown, texture fine and compact, numerous small and few large inclusions: white, grey, red, light brown |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
core light red 10 R 6/8, edges reddish yellow 5 YR 6/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
smooth |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-0.8 (vughy), 0.7 (channel) |
| inclusions |
20%, length: <0.04-2.0 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
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Inclusions
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quartz |
infrequent, well rounded - subrounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, clear, white, yellowish, grey, <0.04-0.4 |
|
mica |
infrequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
riddled with, rounded - subrounded - subangular, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, yellowish-white, <0.04-0.4 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
riddled with, very spherical - subspherical, white, yellowish-white, 0.04->0.6 |
|
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish-brown, red, <0.04-0.8 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, 0.04-0.8 |
|
grey inclusions |
singular, subspherical, dark grey, 0.9 |
|
more inclusions2 |
singular, subrounded, subspherical, pale brown, grog, 05-2.0 |
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