Israel/Northern Coastal Plain ferruginous/quartz sand
Israel/Northern Coastal Plain
Hamra and quartz sand south of Akko
Hamra
The matrix is ferruginous and little silty, the silt may include rare plagioclase, zircon and other heavy minerals. The possible source of clay is in the lenses of Hamra soil that occur within the shell-stone (kurkar) ridges. The non plastics are well sorted and mostly rounded grains of quartz - sand picked to the south of Akko. Another possible source of clay may be the terra Rosa soils of the coastal area carefully washed by potters. The materials were used by several pottery workshops (kilns surveyed and excavated by the IAA). Dated to the Roman period - two settled at the coast (Hirbet Masref and Akhziv) and the third about 7 km inland (Horbat Uza). Dated to Crusader period - great quantities of pottery were produced for the Hospitallers Compuond (excavations of the IAA), pottery kilns yet found.
The matrix is ferruginous and little silty, the silt may include rare plagioclase, zircon and other heavy minerals. The possible source of clay is in the lenses of Hamra soil that occur within the shell-stone (kurkar) ridges. The non plastics are well sorted and mostly rounded grains of quartz - sand picked to the south of Akko. Another possible source of clay may be the terra Rosa soils of the coastal area carefully washed by potters. The materials were used by several pottery workshops (kilns surveyed and excavated by the IAA). Dated to the Roman period - two settled at the coast (Hirbet Masref and Akhziv) and the third about 7 km inland (Horbat Uza). Dated to Crusader period - great quantities of pottery were produced for the Hospitallers Compuond (excavations of the IAA), pottery kilns yet found.
c. 1800 - 500 BCE
Middle Bronze Age II, Middle Bronze Age III, Late Bronze Age, Iron Age
