Limestone (GB.24.0004)
- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Biochemical > Carbonate rock > Limestone > Bioclastic limestone (coral rich)
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Paleozoic; Carboniferous; Middle Missisipian; Visean
- Lithostratigraphy
- Yoredale Group; Tyne Limestone Formation
- Rock name
- Asbian limestone
- Rock synonyms
- Dun limestone
- Additional information
- Late Asbian to Brigantian Substages. This limestone is part of so-called cyclothems, cyclic successions of shale, sandstone, coal and limestone.
Find location
- Site type
- Consumption site
- Location
- Netherlands; Zeeland; Sluis
- Site name
- Sint Anna ter Muiden
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Prof. Dr. W. De Clercq and Dr. Roland Dreesen
- Additional contextual information
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Provenance
- Location
- the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Northumberland
- Supposed site(s) of provenance
- Berwick-upon-Tweed (beach)
- Additional information
- probably originate from the northeastern coast of England (Northumberland), where cliffs expose Lower Carboniferous (Asbian-Brigantian) limestones, the erosion of which has produced numerous cobbles and pebbles along the beach
- Natural color
- brownish grey
- Aged color
- yellowish; beige
- Components
- bioclasts: colonial rugose corals such as the index fossils Siphonodendron pauciradiale and S. junceum, partially or totally recrystallized or dolomitized and occasionally hematite-stained
- Texture
- Structure
- Weathering
- limestone affected by subrecent bioerosion showing tubular burrows that can be assigned to pholads (Pholas dactylus, common piddocks or angelwings), pointing to seashore environments, more particularly intertidal habitats
- Diagnostic features
- colonies of corals
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Tool
- Artefact information
- ballast stone, sample number SAM.3
- Inventory number
- GB.24.0004
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Host collection
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- 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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Last modified: 2024-04-28.