Marble (IT.31.0001)
- Rock determination
- Metamorphic rock > Non foliated > Marble
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Mesozoic; Jurassic; Lower Jurassic; Hettangian
- Lithostratigraphy
- Rock name
- Carrara marble
- Rock synonyms
- Additional information
Find location
- Site type
- Consumption site
- Location
- Belgium; West-Vlaanderen; Damme
- Site name
- Monnikerede
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Prof. Dr. W. De Clercq, Department of Archaeology, Ghent University
- Additional contextual information
- Projectcode: 2018J196 (OE), OOSTKERKE-MONNIKEREDE 1 (OOS-MON1) (UGent), "Woonzone Kerkstraat"
Provenance
- Location
- Italy; Toscana
- Supposed site(s) of provenance
- Additional information
- region of Carrara (province of Massa-Carrara) situated in the Apuane Alps, along the Adriatic coast in Northern Italy (demonstrated by a combination of petrographical analysis and geochemical analysis, collaboration with Dr. Devi Taelman, Department of Archaeology, Ghent University and Dr. Antonelli, Laboratory of Analysis of Ancient materials, University of Venice, Italy).
- Natural color
- white
- Aged color
- Components
- calcite; fine to medium-grained
- Texture
- saccharoid texture
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- saccharoid white calcite crystals
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Tool
- Artefact information
- ballast stone, sample number OOSMON1.26
- Inventory number
- IT.31.0001
- 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.