Foto: Elburg/van der Kroft, 2000 |
| Locality: | Mehrstetten, Ulm district, Suabian Alb, Baden-Württemberg, Germany |
| Synonyms: | Mehrstetten-"Sansenhau". Mining site D 24, according to the catalogue of the museum in Bochum (Weisgerber et al. (eds.) 1980). |
| Geographical co-ordinates: |
Lat. 48° 34' 41" N Long. 010° 04' 30" E (Mapdatum WGS 84)  click here for a detailed topografical map (46 KBytes) or here for a map with further sites in the Ulm region. |
| Additional information: | 
Foto: Rengert Elburg, 2000 |
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 Foto: Elburg/van der Kroft, 2000 |
 Foto: Elburg/van der Kroft, 2000 |
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| Material and colour: | Not very distinct material, very similar to the chert from nearby Ballendorf. The slightly transparent brown and grey, lightly banded material seems to occur mostly in form of roundish nodules of modest dimensions. The intact cortex we saw is quite thick and not too hard. The silicious material was weathered out of its parent rock and lies now in the loamy soil. |
| Archaeological description: | Apart from the very few lines dedicated to Mehrstetten by Moser in Weisgerber et al. (eds.) 1980, nothing seems to be known, or at least published, about this site. Not counting a few flakes of doubtful status, we didn't see any artefacts, only large amounts of naturally broken pieces and some more or less intact nodules. It can very well be a source of (locally used) raw material, but we doubt very much if its status as a mining-site is justified. No further information available on prehistoric use or distribution. |
| Last modified on: January 14, 2001 |
Contents primarily by: Rengert Elburg |
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