Name:

Jurassic flint : 2D documentation

Type of object:

Geological sample

Archaelogical site:

Sąspów

Location- administrative unit (present):

Sąspów, Kraków district, Małopolskie province

Topographic location:

upper part of the Sąspowska Valley; Kraków-Częstochowa Upland

Hydrographic network:

Sąspówka river

Object type:

siliceous rocks ; flint

Characteristics of the object- technique:

non

Characteristics of the object- raw material:

Upper Jurassic

Characteristics of the object- colour:

10 YR 4/1 4/2 5/1

Characteristics of the object- transparency:

4 - transparent

Characteristics of the object- fracture:

conchoidal

Characteristics of the object- texture/facture:

flint structure is crypto- or micro-crystalline, sometimes patchy, spherulitic relict-organogenic; fauna remains visible in the matrix are most often sponge needles (spiculae), rarerly foraminifera tests and radiolaria shells; coloured in different shades of brown; visible cloudiness; on their surface also small spots of differet shapes

Characteristics of the object- luster:

greasy-matt

Characteristics of the object- cortex:

rough, porous, irregular; up to 5 mm thick; white with ferruginous and manganic tarnish

Characteristics of the object- transition:

blurred; under cortex a white band with blurred transition

Characteristics of the object- patina:

non

Characteristics of the object- colour of patine:

non

Characteristics of the object- width:

88 mm

Characteristics of the object- thickness:

59 mm

Characteristics of the object- length:

41 mm

Characteristics of the object- diameter:

88 mm

Characteristics of the object- weight:

336,4 g

Object description:

Neolithic mine of Jurrasic flint in Sąsów near Cracow. Expoited by the communities of Linear pottery culture and Lyengel-Polgar culture. Site 1 in Sąspów, Olkusz district, was discovered in May 1960 by Waldemar Chmielewski, in a scarp developed during a motorway construction from Sąspów to Wymysłów

Research Manager/ Creator of Collection:

Lech, Jacek

Accession number:

0270/FLI/PL

Chronology:

Upper Jurassic

Relation:

Atlas skał

Resource type:

Image

Detailed Resource Type:

Research data

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