Name:

Chocolate' flint : 2D documentation

Type of object:

Geological sample

Archaelogical site:

Wierzbica Krzemienica

Location- administrative unit (present):

Wierzbica, Radom distr., Mazovian voivodeship, Poland

Topographic location:

North-East margin of the Holy Cross Mountain

Object type:

siliceous rocks ; flint

Characteristics of the object- technique:

flake technique

Characteristics of the object- raw material:

Upper Jurassic flint

Characteristics of the object- colour:

10 YR 3/2

Characteristics of the object- transparency:

3 – translucent and 4 - transparent

Characteristics of the object- fracture:

waxy

Characteristics of the object- texture/facture:

slurry evenly distributed, no traces of banding, only under the thin cortex (1 mm) of the ore band and after it another gray (10 YR 6 / 1-5 / 1) with a width of 2 mm - dissolving in the mass of flint; this mass may resemble very "clean" of a variety 'a' acc. Schild 1971; this flint appears to occur in a nodules with a diameter of up to several cm

Characteristics of the object- luster:

dull

Characteristics of the object- cortex:

rough up to 3 mm

Characteristics of the object- transition:

clear transition

Characteristics of the object- patina:

non

Characteristics of the object- colour of patine:

non

Characteristics of the object- width:

75 mm

Characteristics of the object- thickness:

52 mm

Characteristics of the object- length:

28 mm

Characteristics of the object- diameter:

78 mm

Characteristics of the object- weight:

72,4 g

Object description:

group IIId according Schild 1971; occurrence: Wierzbica 'Krzemienica'

Research Manager/ Creator of Collection:

Schild, Romuald

Accession number:

0038/FLI/PL

Chronology:

Upper Jurassic

Relation:

Atlas skał

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY-SA 3.0 PL license

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY-SA 3.0 PL] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY-SA 3.0 PL license, full text available at: ; -

Digitizing institution:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Projects co-financed by:

Operational Program Digital Poland, 2014-2020, Measure 2.3: Digital accessibility and usefulness of public sector information; funds from the European Regional Development Fund and national co-financing from the state budget. ; European Union. European Regional Development Fund

Access:

Open