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Menelite hornstone

Material name: Menelite hornstone
Synonyms: Ropa Hornstone
Material (geologic): Tertiary (Upper Palaeogene, Eocene/Oligocene) menelite hornstone

Detail of black hornstone
Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2001
    Sampled sites:
  • Ropa
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General characteristics

(In part adapted from Valde-Novak 1991 and 1995a) 
 

Geographical setting: N/A
Material and colour: Bank of menilite hornstone
Foto: Rengert Elburg, 2001
  WhatYouSeeAbove
Other information: N/A
Knapping notes: N/A
Archaeological description: View across the supposed mining site at Ropa
Foto: Rengert Elburg, 2001
  WhatYouSeeAbove

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Ropa
Locality: Ropa, Nowy Sącz province, Poland
Synonyms: Ropa site 2; Mining-site PL 21, according to the catalogue of the museum in Bochum (Weisgerber et al. (eds.) 1999; FlintSource sample 198.
Geographical description: WhereItIs
Geographical co-ordinates: Lat. 49° 34' 27" N
Long. 021° 03' 35" E
(Mapdatum WGS 84)
Co-ordinate precision: Precision
Other topographical information: HowToGetThere
Additional information: Small quarry near Ropa
Foto: Rengert Elburg, 2001
  WhatYouSeeAbove
Visitors information: PlacesToEatAndDrink
Sampling information: N/A
  Small flake of hornstone
Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2001
 
Small flake of hornstone
size 26 mm 		Piece of veined fine material
Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2001
 
Piece of veined fine material
length 39 mm
  Patinated piece of grey hornstone
Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2001
 
Patinated piece of grey hornstone
length 76 mm 		Flake of coarser material with cortex
Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2001
 
Flake of coarser material with natural surface
size 51 mm
Sample description: N/A

 
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