Pottery Summary

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The eastern cuts in T-26 produced relatively little pottery.  Three cuts: E-F/99-102, G-F/105-106, and E-F/110-111 produced less than 8 latte boxes of pottery.  Almost all of this came out of the first area: E-F/99-102.  The bulk of pottery was coarseware: impasto, rough orangeware, and Murlo terra-cotta.  These wares make up roughly 90% of the pottery found.  Finer wares, such as creamware and bucchero were negligible; perhaps 5% of the pottery was buccheroid.  A few pithos fragments were found.

The meters E-F(1/2 of G)/99-102 were excavated to a depth of roughly 70cm below the northern baulk.  This left our trench floor approximately 20 cm below the level of of the S.E. Building floor (As determined by M. Spenser in 1988).  Almost all of the pottery was found between 30-70 cm below surface.  Although a large proportion of the pottery came from the level immediately above the S.E. building floor, it is clear that the bulk of the pottery came from the level right below the floor, roughly 60 cm below surface.  It was at this level that 25% of all the pottery was found, (in meters E-F/101-102).  Also, the quality of the

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fragments of this level was higher.  For example only the orangeware ring bases found came from this cut.  Below 60 cm pottery is still present, but not i the quantities that it was right below floor level.  Interestingly, in the last cut 60-70 cm, pottery was more common than tile or plaster.

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Orange/Redware

Diagnostic pieces

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Bucchero/Buccheroid

Diagnostic pieces

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Coarseware/Impasto

Diagnostic pieces