A NOTE ON THE PETROLOGY OF THE POTTERY FROM THE SAXON CEMETERY AT GREAT CHESTERFORD, ESSEX.
Author(s): D F Williams
Nearly all of the Saxon pottery from Great Chesterford held at Birkbeck College and the British Museum was examined for an identification of the various fabrics involved. On the basis of the range of non-plastic inclusions present in selected thin-sectioning, a numberof fabric divisions were made: (1) granitic, (2) oolitic(3) quartz/flint-chert, (4) quartz/shelly limestone and (5) sandstone/metaquartzite. Although a variety of inclusions appear in this group of pottery, the probability is that most, if not all, was produced fairly locally, the majority of the raw materials used deriving from the local drift deposits.
- Report Number:
- 160/1988
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 9
- Keywords:
- Ceramic Petrology Pottery
