archaeological survey of potteries in the site of nachir khanloq of the ray

with at least 11 hectares site locating on fashafooyeh from rey town, the archaic area of nachir khanloq is one of the important regions from islamic period that has been less noticed yet. unfortunately, some parts of this region have been leveled by farming equipments. in addition to its large area, great and massive distribution of cultural artifacts throughout this area, particularly several pottery fragments of both enameled and without enasmel types signify cultural and historic importance of this zone. for this purpose in summer 2010 and within an archaeological researching plan, surface of this area was exploered for study. these explorations demonstrated that the given area enjoyed an appropriate settlement and growth during islamic mid- and late period. this paper is resulted from study on data of the aforesaid potteries. the potteries in this case of study are placed within a very large and various spectrums with/ without enamel and each of them is divided into frequency subgroups. one of the interesting points in this regard is that among enameled pottery fragments, some of them were identified from both groups called as koobacheh and until now no such type of pottery has been yet discovered and reported with the same quantity from this area. similarly, relative and comparaticve chronologies of potteries data indicate that nachir kanlog region had such settlents at least within 4-11th hegira centuries (11-18th ad centuries) and this settlement has got to the peak point within 9-11th hegira centuries (16-18th ad centuries).