ENMSGW - E Norfolk Medium Sandy greyware

Common fine/medium well-sorted sub-rounded quartz sand with sparse mica and fine to coarse sub-rounded ferrous oxide. Typically reduced to a mid-blue-grey with slightly darker surfaces. Some may be handmade, but both simple and developed forms occur. Probably more than one production site.

TS description (P. Quinn): Bimodal grain size distribution due to the presence of a well-sorted medium sand fraction of sub-rounded to subangular quartz and polycrystalline quartz, rare chert and significant opaques. The polycrystalline quartz can be foliated. The fine fraction is composed of medium-fine silt sized inclusions of quartz, muscovite, opaques and rare biotite. The sample has a non-calcareous clay matrix and low porosity composed of meso-elongate voids and some vughs. The sherd appears to be tempered with sand and the presence of some very fine dark clay-rich inclusions may represent remnants of the base clay. Firing was in a poorly oxidised to reduced atmosphere.

Sample from Beeston St Andrew (NDR MCW2).