Common inclusions/tempers:
Fiber | Limestone |
Quartz Sand | Shell |
Grit | Grog |
Sponge spicules | Charcoal |
- Orange Plain fiber-tempered sherd
- Spanish moss, Tillandsia usneoides (fiber-temper)
- Cross section of fiber-tempered sherd showing cross section of channel pores from burned out fibers
- Cross section of fiber-tempered sherd showing a few carbonized fibers
- Thin section view of fiber-tempered sherd showing carbonized fibers in some fiber temper voids (width of image 2.5mm; PPL, 4x)
- Sand-tempered plain pottery
- Quartz sand (sand-temper)
- Cross section of sand-tempered sherd
- Cross section of sand-tempered sherd
- Cross section of grit-tempered sherd
- Thin section view of sand-tempered sherd showing abundant quartz grains (width of image 2.5mm; XP,4x)
- Thin section view of grit-tempered sherd showing quartz and quartzite grit (width of image 2.5mm; XP,4x)
- St. Johns Plain sherds
- SEM photo of sponge spicules (St. Johns pottery); width of image ca. 3mm
- Cross section of St. Johns (spiculate paste) sherd
- Thin section view of sponge spicules (width of image 0.5mm; PPL, 25x)
- Pasco Plain (limestone-tempered) pottery
- Crushed limestone (Pasco and Perico series pottery)
- Cross section of limestone-tempered sherd
- Cross section of limestone-tempered sherd
- Cross section of limestone-tempered sherd
- Thin section of limestone-tempered sherd (width of image 2.5mm; XP, 4x)
- Pensacola Plain (shell-tempered) pottery
- Crushed shell (Pensacola series pottery)
- Cross section of sherd showing shell temper
- Cross section of sherd showing platy voids from dissolved shell temper
- Thin section of sherd showing shell temper (width of image 1.5mm XP, 10x)
- Thin section of sherd platy voids from dissolved shell temper (width of image 4mm; PPL, 4x)
- Jefferson-Lamar Complicated Stamped sherd with grog temper
- Colorinda Plain sherds with St. Johns grog temper
- Grog or crushed potsherd temper (variable pottery series)
- Cross section of grog-tempered sherd
- Cross section of grog-tempered sherd
- Cross section of grog-tempered sherd
- Thin section of grog-tempered sherd (width of image 2.5mm; PPL, 4x)
- Thin section of grog-tempered sherd (width of image 1mm; PPL, 10x) showing St. Johns grog temper
- NE Florida sherds tempered with charred wood (charcoal temper)
- Digital scan of cross section of thin section showing charcoal temper
- Thin section view of charcoal-tempered sherd showing common charred wood fragments (width of image 2.5mm; PPL,4x)
- Thin section view of charcoal temper showing preservation of wood cell structure (width of image 1.5mm; PPL,10x)