Israel/Shephelah
Iron Age I
Dining/Drinking/Serving
Optically active matrix; compact with voids comprising only 5-15%. Relatively low quantities of quartz. Calcareous inclusions dominant; usually this component is 5-10% of the slide but in several cases rises to 20%. This includes moderately sorted limestone/calcareous concentrations fine sand and fine to medium sand chalk. Rounded-shaped inclusions are also common in the samples. In addition foraminifers are rounded with visible cells (possibly endothyracids or calcispheres). The calcareous inclusions are embedded in the clay matrix and are not intentionally added.
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The source for this clay are calcareous rendzina soils from calcareous Eocene formations with chalk and limestone, pleshet and Zor'a formations
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