A PETROLOGICAL NOTE ON POTTERY FROM SANCTON ANGLO-SAXON CEMETERY, HUMBERSIDE
Author(s): D F Williams
A small group of Anglo-Saxon sherds from the 1976-1980 excavations were thin sectioned. This produced six fabric groups: (1) sandstone, (2)organic, (3)quartz/flint, (4) igneous, (5) ironstone and (6) ?grog. With the exception of group (4), all of the pottery may possibly have been made from a range of clays found in the local Pleistocene Beds. The igneous inclusions found in group (4) were of a granite or grano-diorite nature. Igneous erratics in the local boulder clays might account for the latter, or alternatively a source in the Charnwood forest area to the north-west of Leicester is a possibility.
- Report Number:
- 15/1992
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 8
- Keywords:
- Ceramic Petrology Pottery
