TRMCW - Trunch medieval coarseware
Silty with moderate fine sand (cream, grey, rounded), sparse mica. Sand visible in surfaces.
TS description (H. Page): Poorly-sorted, dominant, sub-rounded to sub-angular coarse to very fine quartz and rare polycrystalline quartz. Common elongate muscovite and biotite mica, rare microcline feldspar, ferruginous opaque minerals. Heterogeneous, dark brown-black, reduced, noncalcareous matrix with some iron rich streaks and coarse discordant iron rich textual features of a high optical density. Mega- and meso- vughs and channel voids.
Sample from putative production site in Trunch.
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