Sandstone (BE.22.0010)
Hand specimen picture (macro & binocular)
Thin section picture
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- 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
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Middle to Late Ypresian, various formations and members of the Ieper and Zenne Group
Find location
- Site type
- Consumption site
- Location
- Belgium; Oost-Vlaanderen; Evergem
- Region
- Meetjesland
- Site name
- Evergem Koolstraat
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Adelheid de Logi, Jasper Deconynck, Nele Vanholme & Sibrecht Reniere
- Additional contextual information
- Roman posthole, feature 256.
Provenance
- Location
- Belgium; West-Vlaanderen / Oost-Vlaanderen
- Supposed site(s) of provenance
- Additional information
- Natural color
- greenish to bluish grey
- Aged color
- Components
- quartz, typical glauconite appears as dark-green to black round to oval grains, highly cemented facies
- Texture
- fine- to medium-grained; poorly sorted; in general sub-angular to sub-rounded quartz; some quartz is very angular (splinter-shaped grains)
- Structure
- Weathering
- Brownish shades are related to the presence of iron (hydr-)oxides resulting from the oxidation of the glauconite
- Diagnostic features
- glauconite
- Additional information
- The pictures show a polished sample
- Sample type
- Tool
- Artefact information
- Tabular shaped whetstone, Roman period. It has been studied in the framework of a PhD research project (Reniere 2018; see object code 001-012, rock group: VS)
- Inventory number
- BE.22.0010
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Archeodepot, Archeocentrum Velzeke; former Kale-Lei Archeologische dienst
- Host collection
- Archeodepot, Archeocentrum Velzeke
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Archaeological Excavation
De Logi et al. 2009
- Full reference
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De Logi A., Deconynck J., Vanholme N. & Reniere S. 2009. Archeologisch onderzoek. Evergem Koolstraat 1 oktober 2008 tot 10 juni 2009. KLAD-Rapport, 15.
- Link
Reniere 2018
- Full reference
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Reniere S. 2018. Sourcing the stone in Roman Northern Gaul : on the provenance, use, and socio-economics of stone tools in a stoneless landscape : the case of the northern civitas Menapiorum. Proefschrift voorgelegd tot het behalen van de graad van Doctor in de Archeologie, Ghent University. Ghent.
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Last modified: 2024-04-26.