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Object

Chocolate' flint

Name:

Chocolate' flint

Type of object:

Geological sample

Archaelogical site:

Orońsko

Location- administrative unit (present):

Orońsko, 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 4/3 10 YR 4/2

Characteristics of the object- transparency:

4 - transparent

Characteristics of the object- fracture:

waxy

Characteristics of the object- texture/facture:

slurry petite with frequent occurrence of dark (gray) dots, which causes the deluding resemblance of this flint to Jurassic flint from the Kraków-Wieluń Jura; shape of concretions unknown

Characteristics of the object- luster:

dull

Characteristics of the object- cortex:

rough, thick 1-2 mm

Characteristics of the object- transition:

under cortex white-gray band up to 2 mm

Characteristics of the object- patina:

non

Characteristics of the object- colour of patine:

non

Characteristics of the object- width:

43 mm

Characteristics of the object- thickness:

31 mm

Characteristics of the object- length:

5 mm

Characteristics of the object- diameter:

43 mm

Characteristics of the object- weight:

3,6 g

Object description:

group IX according Schild 1971; occurrence: Orońsko (Orońsk II)

Research Manager/ Creator of Collection:

Schild, Romuald

Accession number:

0070/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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