Jurassic chert from Löwenburg

Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2003

Sampled sites: Pleigne, Löwenburg/Neumühlenfeld

General characteristics

(In part adapted from Schmid 1976 and Schmid 1980b) 
 

Geographical setting:	N/A
Material and colour:	N/A
Other information:	Foto: Rengert Elburg, 2002
	WhatYouSeeAbove
Knapping notes:	N/A
Archaeological description:	N/A

Locality:	Pleigne-Löwenburg, Kanton Jura, Switzerland
Synonyms:	"Neumühlenfeld III", Mining site CH 1 according to the catalogue of the museum in Bochum, 3rd edition (Weisgerber et al. (eds.) 1999). FlintSource samples 174 and 252.
Geographical description:	WhereItIs
Geographical co-ordinates:	Lat. 47° 26' 16" N Long. 007° 19' 37" E (Mapdatum WGS 84)
Co-ordinate precision:	The coordinates given are those of the former excavation. The material in our sample comes from a wider area, mostly on the slope above the prehistoric mining site, around 47° 26' 14" N, 007° 19' 34" E, approx. 100 metres to the southwest. As usual, the readings were taken with a handheld GPS-set and lie not more than ca. 10 metres from the actual position.
Other topographical information:	HowToGetThere
Additional information:	Foto: Rengert Elburg, 2002
	WhatYouSeeAbove
Visitors information:	PlacesToEatAndDrink
Sampling information:	N/A

	Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2003   Flake of typical light grey chert length: 50 mm	Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2003   Split small nodule from Pleigne size: 59 mm
	Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2003   Small elogated flake with enclosed fossil length: 23 mm

	Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2003   Very dense, striped variety of Jurassic chert from Löwenburg size: 58 mm	Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2003   Flake of opaque chert with numerous detritic (?) quartz crystals size: 52 mm
	Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2003   Striped variety with theck, hard cortex length: 49 mm