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Lägerdorf flint

Material name: Lägerdorf flint
Synonyms: Glassy nordic flint, Senonian flint
Material (geologic): Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) flint

Detail of Upper Cretaceous flint
Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2004

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General characteristics

(In part adapted from Ehrmann 1990a and Ernst & Schulz 1980
 

Geographical setting: N/A
Material and colour: Slightly reworked flint nodules
Foto: Rengert Elburg, 2003
 
Other information: N/A
Knapping notes: N/A
Archaeological description: N/A


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Lägerdorf
Locality: Grube Heidestrasse, Lägerdorf, Kreis Steinburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Synonyms: FlintSource samples 361, 362, 363 and 364.
Geographical description: WhereItIs
Geographical co-ordinates: Lat. 53° 52' 38.1" N
Long. 009° 33' 53.0" E
(Mapdatum WGS 84)
Co-ordinate precision: Precision
Other topographical information: HowToGetThere
Additional information: View of Quarry Heidestrasse
Foto: Rengert Elburg, 2003
  WhatYouSeeAbove
Visitors information: PlacesToEatAndDrink
Sampling information: N/A
  Flint from the lower layers
Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2004
 
Flake of opaque flint from the lower layers
length: 75 mm
Manganese stained flint
Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2004
 
Piece of material from the same stratigrafic position with manganese (?) staining
size: 71 mm
  Flint from the upper layers
Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2004
 
Split nodule from the upper layers at the southern end of the quarry
diameter: 68 mm
 
  Glassy flint
Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2004
 
Small flake of glassy flint from the northern part of the chalk pit
length: 49 mm
Manganese stained flint
Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2004
 
Flake of the typical "residual" material as seen in the picture in the introduction
length: 80 mm
Sample description: N/A
  Fine-grained light flint
Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2004
 
Example of fine-grined light gray flint
size: 49 mm
Translucent flint
Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2004
 
Flake of translucent material with extremely thin cortex
size: 65 mm
  Flint with belemnite
Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2004
 
Piece of spotted flint with fossilised rostrum of a belemnite attached
size: 60 mm
brownish flint
Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2004
 
Piece of seconary coloured material from the surface
length: 59 mm

 

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