| fabric type |
CdE-A-5
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| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Circulo del Estrecho |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour light red to light brown, texture middle fine and compact, numerous small tp large inclusions: white, grey, black, brownish, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
light reddish brown 2.5 YR 6/4, core and interior area reddish brown 5 YR 5/3 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.05 (channel)-0.8 (vughy) 0.6 (channel) |
| inclusions |
20%, length: <0.04-1.0 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
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Inclusions
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quartz |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, grey, clear, white, 0.06-0.8 |
|
mica |
infrequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
riddled with, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-1.0 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
riddled with, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-0.4 |
|
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, <0.04-0.7 |
|
black inclusions |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, grey, <0.04-1.0 |
|
foraminifera |
infrequent, well rounded, rounded, very spherical subspherical, elongate, white, 0.04-0.3 |
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