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.