Limestone (IT.24.0001)
- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Biochemical > Carbonate rock > Limestone > Fossiliferous limestone
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Cenozoic; Paleogene; Oligocene
- Lithostratigraphy
- Rock name
- Rock synonyms
- Porto Badisco calcarenite
- Additional information
- large benthic foraminifers are lepidocyclinids
Find location
- Site type
- Consumption site
- Location
- Belgium; West-Vlaanderen; Damme
- Site name
- Hoeke
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Prof. Dr. W. De Clercq, Department of Archaeology, Ghent University
- Additional contextual information
- excavation campaign 2018, Projectcode: 2018C213 (OE), HOEKE 2018 (UGent)
Provenance
- Location
- Italy
- Supposed site(s) of provenance
- Additional information
- Contains numerous larger benthic foraminifera indicative of an Oligocene agea. Possible provenance area located along the eastern coast of the Salento peninsula in southern Italy.
- Natural color
- white to cream-colored
- Aged color
- Components
- bioclasts (large benthic foraminifera, echinoderms, bryozoans); porous
- Texture
- coarse bioclastic;
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- large benthic foraminifera
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Tool
- Artefact information
- ballast stone, sample number Hoeke 2018.5
- Inventory number
- IT.24.0001
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Host collection
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Archaeological Excavation
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.
De Clercq et al. 2019
- Full reference
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De Clercq W., Trachet J., Poulain M. & de Ruijsscher D. 2019. Een archeologische evaluatie, waardering en afbakening van de verdwenen Zwinhavens Hoeke en Monnikerede (gemeente Damme, provincie West-Vlaanderen). Studie in opdracht van de Vlaamse overheid, agentschap Onroerend Erfgoed. Gent: 163.
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.