Sandstone (FR.22.0013)
- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Siliciclastic > Sandstone
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Paleozoic; Devonian; Lower Devonian; Lochkovian
- Lithostratigraphy
- Fépin Formation
- Rock name
- Macquenoise sandstone
- Rock synonyms
- Arkose d’Haybes; arkose du Gedinnien
- Additional information
- coarse-grained sandstone or (micro-)conglomerate; it should be noted that this rock is not a real arkose (cf. containing at least 25% of feldspars)
Find location
- Site type
- Quarry
- Location
- France; Aisne; Hirson
- Site name
- Pas-Bayard
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Dr. Sibrecht Reniere & Dr. Paul Picavet
- Additional contextual information
- Sample found on the east bank of the Oise river. A succession of excavations surrounded by high dumps of stone debris provide good evidence for Roman extraction activities (Picavet et al. 2018); prospection find in the context of PhD Research Reniere & Picavet. It is part of a Roman quarry district that has been identified in the region of Mondrepuis, Hirson and Macquenoise (Department of the Aisne, Province of Hainaut, France/Belgium)
- Natural color
- light grey
- Aged color
- Components
- quartz; limited amount of dark green to black tourmaline crystals (of a few millimeters large); many mica flakes are easy recognizable with the naked eye in hand specimen; white- colored inter-granular matrix
- Texture
- coarse-grained sandstone or (micro-) conglomerate; poorly sorted
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- black tourmaline crystals and mica flakes are easy recognizable with the naked eye in hand specimen
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- FR.22.0013
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Dr. Sibrecht Reniere
- Host collection
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Field Sampling (clay/rock)
Picavet 2019
- Full reference
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Picavet P. 2019. Les meules rotatives de la fin de l'Âge du Fer au haut Moyen Âge entre la Seine et le Rhin. Thèse présentée pour l'obtention du titre de Docteur en Histoire, Civilisation et Archéologie, Université de Lille, Lille.
Picavet et al. 2018
- Full reference
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Picavet P., Reniere S., Cnudde V., De Clercq W., Dreesen R., Fronteau G., Goemaere E. & Hartoch E. 2018. The Macquenoise sandstone (Devonian – Lochkovian), a suitable raw material for ancient millstones: quarries, properties, manufacture and distribution in France and Belgium. Geologica Belgica 21, 1-2: 27-40.
- 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.