BCSW - Bury Coarse Sandy Ware

Coarse sandy fabric with sparse purple or white flint (2–3mm), sparse chalk (2-4mm) and sparse burnt-out organic material. Range of colours in the sand - white, clear, pink and brown. Generally buff with grey core. Similar to Fenland products such as Ely Ware and Mildenhall-type ware, but much coarser. May be the same as Spoerry's SEFEN (Spoerry 2016).

TS sample description (Patrick Quinn): Poorly-sorted, sub-rounded to sub-angular very coarse to fine sand-sized inclusions of quartz with less abundant polycrystalline quartz, iron-stained chert, limestone and rare siltstone. The limestone inclusions are composed of micritic calcite and/or fine fine sparry calcite and can exhibit relic fossil structure. Silt-sized inclusions are less common, but include quartz and rare foraminifera microfossils. Several iron-rich soil pisoliths are present. Calcareous, non-vitrified clay matrix that indicates the use of marine marl or sediment eroded from it. Sparse macro-elongate voids.

Example from Bury St Edmunds.