Ignimbrite (SE.13.0003)
- Rock determination
- Igneous rock > Pyroclastic > Ignimbrite
- Chronostratigraphy
- Precambrian
- Lithostratigraphy
- Rock name
- Dala/Dalarna ignimbrite
- Rock synonyms
- Älvdalen ignimbrite
- Additional information
Find location
- Site type
- Consumption site
- Location
- Belgium; West-Vlaanderen; Damme
- Site name
- Monnikerede
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Prof. Dr. Wim De Clercq
- Additional contextual information
- Projectcode: 2018J196 (OE), OOSTKERKE-MONNIKEREDE 1 (OOS-MON1) (UGent), context: "Woonzone Kerkstraat"
Provenance
- Location
- Sweden; Dalarnas län
- Supposed site(s) of provenance
- Additional information
- interpreted as a glacial erratic collected from cobble beaches in the Baltoscandian area; geologically the rock originates from a large volcanic field near the village of Älvdalen (in the middle of Sweden, 350 km to the north-west of Stockholm)
- Natural color
- purple brown with red to orange flames
- Aged color
- brown
- Components
- phenocrysts in purple brown fine-grained groundmass
- Texture
- layered/banded texture (eutaxitic texture) - "fiamme"
- Structure
- Weathering
- brown patina
- Diagnostic features
- fiamme; dark colour
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Tool
- Artefact information
- ballast stone, sample number OOSMON1.21
- Inventory number
- SE.13.0003
- 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.
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.
Wikström et al. 2015
- Full reference
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Wikström A., Pereira D., Lundqvist T. & Cooper B. 2015. The Dala (Älvdalen) porphyries from Sweden. EPISODES: Journal of International Geoscience 39, 2: 79-84.
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