Name:

Chocolate' flint

Type of object:

Geological sample

Archaelogical site:

Chronów Kolonia

Location- administrative unit (present):

Chronów Kolonia, Szydłowiec 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, but in the mass of flint sometimes visible outflowing out of focus, delicate, colored circles or streaks with a slightly brown color, large parts of concretion do not show the presence of these concentric vertebrae; large concretions in the form of tablets? or in the form of nodules?

Characteristics of the object- luster:

dull

Characteristics of the object- cortex:

thin smooth

Characteristics of the object- transition:

under cortex light brown band

Characteristics of the object- patina:

non

Characteristics of the object- colour of patine:

non

Characteristics of the object- width:

82 mm

Characteristics of the object- thickness:

37 mm

Characteristics of the object- length:

11 mm

Characteristics of the object- diameter:

82 mm

Characteristics of the object- weight:

32,1 g

Object description:

group IIIa according Schild 1971; occurrence: Wierzbica "Krzemienica"

Research Manager/ Creator of Collection:

Schild, Romuald

Accession number:

0033/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