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| Name: Coarse Creamware 3 | Code: CC3 |
| Distinguishing features: Colour and white crystalline inclusions |
| Colour: Pinkish buff-orange 2.5YR 6/8 | Texture: Rough | Strength: Medium |
| Hardness: Medium | Resistance: Medium | Fracture: finely irregular |
| Manufacture: Wheel | Firing temperature: Medium | Firing atmosphere: Oxidizing |
| Surface treatment: none, self-same slip |
| Clay matrix: Medium elutriated |
| Inclusions: |
| Type | Size mm. | Colour | Mineral % | Shape | Sorting | Note |
| Crystals | <1 | Transparent | Quartz / Sanidine 5 | Angular | Poor | |
| Grit | <1.5 | Dark red-brown | Grog 2-5 | Angular | Poor | |
| Crystals | <1 | Dark red-black | Augite 2-5 | Angular | Poor | |
| Particles | <0.5 | White | Lime 1-3 | Sub-angular | Poor | |
| Crystals | <1 | White | Quartz 2 | Angular | Poor | |
| Platelets | <0.5 | Golden | Biotite mica <1 | Platelet | Poor |
| Notes: The fabric is very similar to amphora fabric 2 |