THETL - Thetford-type ware (local fabrics)
Miscellaneous non-standard fabrics - to be described in detail when reporting.
TS samples (Patrick Quinn): Sample 2 (Lowestoft) is coarser, containing occasional very coarse sand-sized inclusions of quartz and polycrystalline quartz, in addition to the finer sand inclusions of these and chert. It features a large iron-rich nodule containing quartz and polycrystalline quartz clasts, plus a soil pisolith. Two charred plant fragments may also be naturally occurring. Non-calcareous, vitrified, weakly oxidised clay matrix. Elongate meso- and macro-drying voids.
Example from Lowestoft.
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