SWSSM - SW Suffolk Sandy Micaceous Ware

Fine to medium sandy (white, brown) micaceous with fine to coarse burnt-out or carbonised organic matter, may contain ferrous oxide, chalk etc. Usually fired to pale buff/light grey and typically has a grey core.

TS sample description (Patrick Quinn): Relatively sparse sand-sized sub-angular inclusions of quartz, polycrystalline quartz, chert, bone and pottery fragments. The latter are rare, but positively identified and may represent temper. Non-vitrified, non-calcareous mottled, oxidised clay matrix. Rare large vugh-shaped voids. Mica is not present except in trace amounts in the silt-sized fraction.

Example from Clare.

Microscope examples from Elmswell.