Fabric 4.8 - Malvernian shelly limestone tempered ware


Soft fabric with a soapy feel containing abundant angular fossilised shelly limestone (generally <5.0mm) and rare rounded quartz sand inclusions (0.25-0.5mm).
Pinkish red to dark brown outer surface and variably coloured inner surface with a grey core.

F004 8a
Fabric 4.8 		F004 8b
Fabric 4.8 internal surface 		F004 8c
Fabric 4.8 external surface

Manufacture
Hand-made
Decoration
Decoration can include smoothed surfaces, finger smearing, shallow finger grooving, diagonal incised lines on top of rim or on the outer edge of rim. Both surfaces are occasionally burnished.
May Hill area, HEREFORDSHIRE
Herefordshire-Cotswold region
Bronze Age (2350 BC to 800 BC)

Texture & Colour

Hardness
Soft
Feel
Soapy
Fracture
Hackly
Surface treatment
Occasionally burnished

Core colour
Grey
Int surface colour
Grey
Ext surface colour
Buff
Int margin colour
Grey
Ext margin colour
Orange

Inclusions (2)

DB ID Modified Description Frequency Size Sorting Rounding
329 0 Limestone Abundant Coarse Ill-sorted Angular
330 0 Quartz Rare Fine Well-sorted Rounded

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