EMWSF - Early Medieval Ware sparse flint
Fine-medium sandy (white, grey, clear, cream, brown), sparse coarser quartz, sparse coarse flint, sparse ferrous oxide, sparse mica. see also FRANCW and NNSOW.
TS description (H. Page): Moderately sorted, sub-angular to sub-rounded, coarse to fine sand sized quartz and polycrystalline quartz. Common elongate biotite mica, few fine inclusions of muscovite mica, small, rounded chert and iron-stained chert, ferruginous opaque minerals, and rare microcline and plagioclase feldspar. Homogeneous, non-calcareous deep red to dark brown-black matrix, with rare iron rich discordant textual features with a high optical density. Highly optically active matrix at the outer section edge and inactive unoxidised at the inner part of the vessel. Frequent elongate meso- and macro- channels and vughs.
Example from Great Ellingham, Norfolk.
EMWSF - Early Medieval Ware sparse flint
Microscope view. Fine-medium sandy (white, grey, clear, cream, brown), sparse coarser quartz, sparse coarse flint, sparse ferrous oxide, sparse mica.
Example from Ellough, near Bungay, Suffolk.
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