Sample: SLO7

Monument: Slocene settlement
Location: Tukums Municipality, Lapmežciems parish, shore of River Slocene
Chronology: Middle Neolithic (3900-3000 BC)
Kind: Pottery sherd
Type: Comb ware
Publication: Haferberga (Visocka) et al. 2024
Description:
* Clay paste – medium coarse with fine sand and silt, few medium and large sand grains. Rich in mica (biotite), small ferric concretions and dark unidentifiable patches (largest – 0,8 mm).
* Pores – oval and round elongated, some are uneven elongated (mussel shells), others are thin elongated (plant remains?).
* Temper: crushed granite + mussel shells + plant remains + unidentifiable organic matter:
- Largest size of the granite grain – 1,7 mm, max. avg. – 1,32 mm;
- Largest size of the plant remains – 1 mm, max. avg. – 0,36 mm;
- Largest size of the pores of mussel shells – 2,5 mm, max. avg. – 0,88 mm;
- Largest oval pore – 1,1 mm, max. avg. – 0,46 mm;
- Amount of the temper in the clay paste – 13,42 %.
! 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 crossed polarized light.

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. View in plain polarized light.

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

$Plant remains in the clay paste (marked as \"Pl\"). Figure on the left in crossed polarized light, on the right in plain polarized light. Magnification - multiply 100.$

Plant remains in the clay paste (“Pl”). Crossed (A) and plain (B) polarized light. Magnification – x100 (eye pieces x10, objective lens x10). Photo: V. Haferberga.