Find location
- Site type
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Consumption site
- Location
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Belgium; West-Vlaanderen; Damme
- Site name
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Hoeke
- Excavation or Survey Team
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Prof. Dr. Wim De Clercq and Dr. Roland Dreesen
- Additional contextual information
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Provenance
- Location
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Finland
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Supposed site(s) of provenance
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- Additional information
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interpreted as a glacial erratic collected from cobble beaches in the Baltoscandian area; probably geologically originates from south(-western) Finland; more particular the Åland archipelago
- Natural color
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deep red coloured; grey and black minerals
- Aged color
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- Components
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large rounded and rimmed feldspar crystals (ovoid alkali feldspars surrounded by a rim of plagioclase); red alkali feldspar and grey plagioclase; black ferromagnesian minerals; quartz
- Texture
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characteristic graphic textures (exsolved quartz typically forming a distinctive repetitive pattern resembling cuneiform writing);
- Structure
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- Weathering
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- Diagnostic features
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- Additional information
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pictures of sawn sides show both dry and wet surfaces
- Sample type
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Tool
- Artefact information
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ballast stone, sample number Ho-9
- Inventory number
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FI.11.0001
- Collection
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Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
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- Host collection
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- Other samples available
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No
- Sample collection method
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Archaeological Field Survey
De Clercq et al. 2017
- Full reference
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De Clercq W., Dreesen R., Dumolyn J., Leloup W. & Tracht J. 2017. Ballasting the Hanse: Baltoscandian erratic cobbles in the Later Medieval port landscape of Bruges. European Journal of Archaeology 20, 4: 710-736.
Dreesen & De Clercq 2020
- Full reference
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Dreesen R. & De Clercq W. 2020. Ballaststenen en hun rol in het voormalige middeleeuwse Brugse havenlandschap. In: De Kock T., De Ceukelaire M. & Van der Star C. (Eds.). Pracht en Praal, 7e Vlaams-Nederlandse natuursteendagen, 12-13 maart 2020, Antwerpen. Professional Papers of the Geological Survey of Belgium, 318: 7-18.
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