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Hesdin area

Material name: Hesdin flint
Synonyms: N/A
Material (geologic): Upper Cretaceous (senonian) flint

Detail of flint from Le Parq
Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2002
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General characteristics

(In part adapted from Delattre et al. 1973) 
 

Geographical setting: N/A
Material and colour: View of nodules in situ at Guigny
Foto: Rengert Elburg, 2002
  WhatYouSeeAbove
Other information: N/A
Knapping notes: N/A
Archaeological description: N/A

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Guigny
Locality: Guigny, département Pas-de-Calais, France
Synonyms: FlintSource sample 305.
Geographical description: WhereItIs
Geographical co-ordinates: Lat. 50° 19' 56" N
Long. 002° 00' 15" E
(Mapdatum WGS 84)
Co-ordinate precision: Precision
Other topographical information: HowToGetThere
Additional information: Small exposure in sombody's back garden
Foto: Rengert Elburg, 2002
  WhatYouSeeAbove
Visitors information: PlacesToEatAndDrink
Sampling information: N/A
  Split nodule
Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2003
 
Ventral view of freshly split nodule
length: 106 mm 		Nodule with cortex
Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2003
 
Dorsal view of the same nodule with typical cortex
  Grey flint
Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2003
 
Large flake of typical grey flint
size: 75 mm 		 
Sample description: N/A

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St. André-au-bois
Locality: St. André-au-bois, département Pas-de-Calais, France
Synonyms: FlintSource sample 306.
Geographical description: WhereItIs
Geographical co-ordinates: Lat. 50° 23' 21" N
Long. 001° 56' 00" E
(Mapdatum WGS 84)
Co-ordinate precision: Precision
Other topographical information: HowToGetThere
Additional information: Very nice disused quarry
Foto: Rengert Elburg, 2002
  WhatYouSeeAbove
Visitors information: PlacesToEatAndDrink
Sampling information: N/A
  Typical dark flint
Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2003
 
Freshly struck flake of typical dark grey flint
size: 66 mm 		Matte flint
Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2003
 
Piece of opaque, matte flint
size: 46 mm
  Example
Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2003
 
very fine, partly transparent material
with rusty spot
length: 62 mm 		Example
Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2003
 
Elongated flake with very thin, irregular cortex
length: 76 mm
Sample description: N/A

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Le Parq
Locality: Le Parq, département Pas-de-Calais, France
Synonyms: FlintSource sample 307.
Geographical description: WhereItIs
Geographical co-ordinates: Lat. 50° 22' 22" N
Long. 002° 06' 30" E
(Mapdatum WGS 84)
Co-ordinate precision: Precision
Other topographical information: HowToGetThere
Additional information: Documenting the site at Le Parq
Foto: Rengert Elburg, 2002
  WhatYouSeeAbove
Visitors information: PlacesToEatAndDrink
Sampling information: Soft white chalk with banks of flint
Foto: Rengert Elburg, 2002
  WhatYouSeeAbove
  Flake of grey flint
Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2002
 
Elongated flake of grey flint
length: 65 mm 		Flint nodule with thick cortex
Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2002
 
Flint nodule with typical thick cortex
length: 99 mm
  Flake blotchy flint
Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2002
 
Flake of blotchy, heterogenous flint
size: 62 mm 		 
Sample description: N/A

 
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