Ignimbrite (SE.13.0004)

Find location

Site type

Consumption site

Location

Belgium; West-Vlaanderen; Damme

Site name

Hoeke

Excavation or Survey Team

Prof. Dr. Wim De Clercq and Dr. Roland Dreesen

Additional contextual information

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

red brown with light brown flames: liver-colored

Aged color

Components

small feldspar phenocrysts

Texture

typical "fiamme": layered/banded texture (eutaxitic texture)

Structure

Weathering

Diagnostic features

fiamme; small phenocrysts

Additional information

Sample type

Tool

Artefact information

ballast stone, sample number Ho-62

Inventory number

SE.13.0004

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

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

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

Wikström A., Pereira D., Lundqvist T. & Cooper B. 2015. The Dala (Älvdalen) porphyries from Sweden. EPISODES: Journal of International Geoscience 39, 2: 79-84.

 

Link

• https://doi.org/10.18814/epiiugs/2015/v38i2/002