Sample: SLO5

Monument: Slocene settlement
Location: Tukums Municipality, Lapmežciems parish, shore of River Slocene
Chronology: Middle Neolithic (3900-3000 BC)
Kind: Pottery sherd
Type: Sārnate type
Publication: Haferberga (Visocka) et al. 2024
Description:
* Clay paste – medium coarse with coarse and medium coarse sand and silt. Few grains of ferric concretions (largest – 0,6 mm). Mica (biotite) and clay pellets (largest – 0,7 mm) was also distinguished.
* Pores – oval and oval elongated, large (in some remains preserved), few – thin and elongated (possibly, from plant matter).
* Temper – crushed mussel shells (?, large, elongated pores) + plant matter (thin elongated pores with dark casing) + unknown organic matter (oval pores):
- Largest size of mussel shell (?) pore: 3,2 mm, max. avg. – 1,36 mm;
- Size of the largest plant matter pore – 0,9 mm, max. avg. size – 0,34 mm;
- Largest oval elongated pore – 0,25 mm;
- Amount of temper in the clay paste – 11,21 %.
! Values are recalculated using more precise methodology and differs from ones in the publication.

Overview of the sample thin section. Total magnification in the microscope multiply 40: in eyepiece lens multiply 10, in objective lens multiply 4, crossed polarizers.

Overview of the sample thin section (created with smartphone on the panorama setting); Magnification – x40 (eye pieces x10, objective lens x4), crossed polarizers. Photo: V. Haferberga.

Overview of the sample thin section. Total magnification in the microscope multiply 40. Plane polarized light.

Overview of the sample thin section in plain polarized light. Photo: V. Haferberga.

Pore from the plant matter in the clay paste. Figure on the left in crossed polarized, on the right in plane polarized light. Magnification - multiply 100.

Pore from plant remain in the clay paste. Crossed (A) and plain (B) polarized light. Magnification – x100 (eye pieces x10, objective lens x10). Photo: V. Haferberga.

Oval pore in the clay paste. Figure on the left in crossed polarized, on the right in plane polarized light. Magnification - multiply 100.

Oval pore in the clay paste. Crossed (A) and plain (B) polarized light. Magnification – x100 (eye pieces x10, objective lens x10). Photo: V. Haferberga.