RCSW - Rougham Coarse Sandy Ware
Coarse sandy yellowish fabric with grey core, superficially very similar to BCSW but no chalk seen in samples.
Ceramic petrography (Patrick Quinn): Relatively sparse rounded to sub-angular medium to fine sand-sized quartz, polycrystalline quartz, quartzite and chert, and more abundant, more angular silt-sized inclusions of quartz, chert, muscovite and sericite mica, ferruginous inclusions, possible glauconite and rare amphibole. The sand-sized inclusions could represent temper or could have been natural components in a sandy clay source. Contains several argillaceous inclusions that appear to be natural clay pellets. Non-vitrified, non-calcareous oxidised clay matrix. Frequent meso-elongate voids. Not compositionally related to Sample 33 (BCSW).
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