A NOTE ON THE PETROLOGY OF SOME POTTERY FROM THE SAXON CEMETERY AT GREAT CHESTERFORD, ESSEX.
Author(s): D F Williams
Thirty-four nearly complete vessels and fifteen fragmentary ones were examined in thin section for an analysis of the fabric. On the basis of the range of non-plastic inclusions present in the sherds a number offabric divisions were made: (1) granitic, (2) oolitic, (3) quartz/ flint-chert, (4) quartz/ shelly limestone and (5) sandstone/ metaquartzite. Although a variety ofinclusions appear in this pottery, the probability is that most, if not all, was produced fairly locally, the majority of the raw material deriving from the local drift deposits.
- Report Number:
- 40/1988
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 6
- Keywords:
- Ceramic Petrology Pottery
