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Object

Chocolate' flint

Name:

Chocolate' flint

Type of object:

Geological sample

Archaelogical site:

Tomaszów

Location- administrative unit (present):

Tomaszów, 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:

non

Characteristics of the object- raw material:

Upper Jurassic flint

Characteristics of the object- colour:

10 YR 4/2

Characteristics of the object- transparency:

0 - non – transparent

Characteristics of the object- fracture:

matte with very light cloudies (not always)

Characteristics of the object- texture/facture:

dark gray-brown (10 YR 4/2) non-uniformly spread, more or less distinct system of colored banding with regular concentric layers with a width up to 1 mm, less often 2 mm dark gray (10 YR 4/1), to gray ( 10 YR 5/1) and dark gray-brown (10 YR 5/1) with a thickness of up to 5 mm, the divisions between the bands are blurred - large tablular concretions (?)

Characteristics of the object- luster:

dull

Characteristics of the object- cortex:

thin upto 1 mm

Characteristics of the object- transition:

under cortex white-gray band up to 1 mm

Characteristics of the object- patina:

non

Characteristics of the object- colour of patine:

non

Characteristics of the object- width:

45 mm

Characteristics of the object- thickness:

37 mm

Characteristics of the object- length:

31 mm

Characteristics of the object- diameter:

54 mm

Characteristics of the object- weight:

67,5 g

Object description:

group XIa according Schild 1971; occurrence: Tomaszów

Research Manager/ Creator of Collection:

Schild, Romuald

Accession number:

0084/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

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Open

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