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Dressel 14 fabric |
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Visual characteristicsA hard, rough, sandy fabric with limestone and schist inclusions, dark buff (7.5YR 7/4 to 6/4) in colour. |
PetrologyMaterial from the kilns at Porto dos Cacos show a coarse fabric containing frequent grains of quartz, long strands of mica and a scatter of discrete grains of felspar (plagioclase, microcline and potash). Material from the kilns at Manta Rota show a groundmass of silt-sized quartz grains with a scatter of larger quartz grains and a little limestone. |