Sandstone (FR.22.0015)
Hand specimen picture (macro & binocular)
Thin section picture
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- 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
- Consumption site
- Location
- Belgium; Oost-Vlaanderen; Zele
- Site name
- Zele Kouterbosstraat
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Gwendy Wyns, Maarten Bracke & Bert Mestdagh
- Additional contextual information
- ditch (feature 917)
Provenance
- Location
- France; Ardennes / Aisne
- Supposed site(s) of provenance
- Hirson; Mondrepuis; Macquenoise
- Additional information
- Natural color
- light grey to beige colors
- Aged color
- yellow and orange shades
- 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; sub-angular to rounded quartz grains
- Structure
- Weathering
- yellowish to orange shades
- Diagnostic features
- black tourmaline crystals and mica flakes are easy recognizable with the naked eye in hand specimen
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Tool
- Artefact information
- Quern meta fragment. Roman period. It has been studied in the framework of a PhD research project (Reniere 2018; see object code 009-021, rock group: MACQ_SS)
- Inventory number
- FR.22.0015
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Monument Vandekerckhove nv
- Host collection
- unknown (Solva ?)
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Archaeological Excavation
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.
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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.
Wyns et al. 2017
- Full reference
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Wyns G., Bracke M. & Mestdagh B. 2017. Archeologische opgraving Zele-Kouterbosstraat (prov. Oost-Vlaanderen). Monument Vandekerckhove Rapport 2017/32, Ingelmunster.
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