Table 2. Recorded physical properties of Rose Cottage Cave ochre and their identifying features.

Ochre attributes	Identifying features
Geological type	Shale, mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, snuffbox shale, iron oxide, other
Brilliance	Mica inclusions present or absent
Grain size	Texture: clayey, clayey/silty, silty, silty/sandy or sandy
Hardness	Soft (Mohs Scale 1 and 2), medium (Mohs 3 and 4) and hard (Mohs 5 and above)
Colour	Munsell colour readings on streaks. Colour groupings are made with a polythetic divisive classificatory program [81]