Name:

Chocolate' flint

Type of object:

Geological sample

Archaelogical site:

Polany kolonie I

Location- administrative unit (present):

Polany Kolonie, 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:

blade technique

Characteristics of the object- raw material:

Upper Jurassic flint

Characteristics of the object- colour:

10 YR 3/2; 10 YR 5/1, 10 YR 4/1 ; 10 YR 4/2

Characteristics of the object- transparency:

2 - translucent by the edges and 3 – translucent

Characteristics of the object- fracture:

waxy

Characteristics of the object- texture/facture:

scarce gray-brown lenses, gray and brown zone (10 YR 5/2) under the bark, in the central part of oval concretion visible delicate stratification (thickness of 1 mm layers (slightly grayish in the plane of pancakes; concretion up to a dozen cm in diameter)

Characteristics of the object- luster:

dull

Characteristics of the object- cortex:

thin upto 0,5 mm

Characteristics of the object- transition:

under cortex light brown band (10 YR 5/2)

Characteristics of the object- patina:

non

Characteristics of the object- colour of patine:

non

Characteristics of the object- width:

51 mm

Characteristics of the object- thickness:

19 mm

Characteristics of the object- length:

13 mm

Characteristics of the object- diameter:

51 mm

Characteristics of the object- weight:

16,3 g

Object description:

group Ve according Schild 1971; occurrence: Polany kolonie I

Research Manager/ Creator of Collection:

Schild, Romuald

Accession number:

0065/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