CHIL - Chillesford Ware

Very fine sandy micaceous greyware, often very pale grey with darker grey surfaces, although a uniform colour throughout is also common. Forms similar to Hollesley ware.

TS sample description (Patrick Quinn): Moderately well-sorted sub-angular to sub-rounded fine sand to silt-sized inclusions of quartz with less common chert, silt-sized muscovite mica, microcline and amphibole. Frequent ferruginous inclusions of various sizes and shapes throughout sample. Possible relic coils picked out by orientation of inclusions. Non-vitrified, non-calcareous, poorly oxidised clay matrix. Frequent meso- and macro-elongate drying voids.

Example from putative production site at Chillesford.