Sandstone (BE.22.0002)
- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Siliciclastic > Sandstone > Glauconite-rich sandstone
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Cenozoic; Paleogene; Eocene; Ypresian
- Lithostratigraphy
- Rock name
- Fieldstone
- Rock synonyms
- veldsteen; kiezelzandsteen van het Paniseliaan; grès lustré (du Panisélien); pierre de champs; pierre volante
- Additional information
-
Middle to Late Ypresian, various formations and members of the Ieper and Zenne Group
Find location
- Site type
- Consumption site
- Location
- Belgium; Oost-Vlaanderen; Maldegem
- Region
- Meetjesland
- Site name
- Maldegem Vake
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Prof. H. Thoen (UGent)
- Additional contextual information
- Found during an excavation campaign of the Roman castellum supervised by Prof. H. Thoen (1985). Feature number: MAV85/2/VII. For more information see: CAI ID 32406, https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/erfgoedobjecten/301461
Provenance
- Location
- Belgium; West-Vlaanderen / Oost-Vlaanderen
- Supposed site(s) of provenance
- Additional information
- Natural color
- greenish to bluish grey
- Aged color
- grey to light grey; fine- to medium-grained; poorly sorted; in general sub-angular to sub-rounded quart
- Components
- quartz, typical glauconite appears as dark-green to black round to oval grains, highly cemented facies; white shell fragments; hollow root casts
- Texture
- conchoidal fractures
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- glauconite
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Building material
- Artefact information
- Inventory number
- BE.22.0002
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Host collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Other samples available
- Yes
- Sample collection method
- Archaeological Excavation
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Last modified: 2024-04-24.