Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2001
- Rijckholt-St. Geertruid
Sampled sites:
| Material name: | Rijckholt or Ryckholt flint |
| Synonyms: | Lanaye-Lixhe flint, Rijckholt Vuursteen |
| Material (geologic): | Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) flint |
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Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2001 |
Sampled sites:
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(In part adapted from Rademakers 1998a and Felder, Rademakers, & de Grooth 1998)
| Geographical setting: | The prehistoric flint mining district of Rijckholt (also spelled Ryckholt)-St. Geertruid lies approx. 6 kilometres SSW of Maastricht in Southern Dutch Limburg. It is located on the first high ground, formed by a ridge of Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) chalk, on the Eastern side of the valley of the river Meuse. In this ridge several members of the Gulpen Formation (for a lithostratigraphical scheme of the region, see the introduction to the ENCI quarry) come very near the surface, only covered by some Pleistocene terrace gravels and loams. A sketch of the local geological situation can be found under http://www.engelen.demon.nl/ryckholt/geologie.html. |
| Material and colour: | N/A |
| Other information: | N/A |
| Knapping notes: | N/A |
| Archaeological description: | N/A |
| Locality: | Rijckholt-St. Geertruid, Limburg, The Netherlands |
| Synonyms: | Savelsbos, Grand Atelier, Schone Grub, mining site NL 1 according to the catalogue of the museum in Bochum, 3rd edition (Weisgerber et al. (eds.) 1999), FlintSource sample 123 |
| Geographical description: | WhereItIs |
| Geographical co-ordinates: |
Lat. 50° 47' 44" N Long. 005° 44' 41" E (Mapdatum WGS 84) In cooperation with our technical partner I/O-graph, we offer a transformation-service for the coordinates of the sampled sites. Just click here to send a mail. |
| Co-ordinate precision: | Precision |
| Other topographical information: | HowToGetThere |
| Additional information: | No site picture yet |
| WhatYouSeeAbove | |
| Visitors information: | PlacesToEatAndDrink |
| Sampling information: | N/A |
 Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2001 Large flake of Rijckholt flint from the prehistoric mining site size: 100 mm |
 Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2001 Smaller flake of typical material with some thin cortex length: 55 mm |
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 Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2001 Piece with slight banding under the cortex size: 64 mm |
 Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2001 Large flake of coarser, lighter flint size: 106 mm |
| Sample description: | N/A |
 Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2001 Large, prehistoric patinated flake length: 97 mm |
 Foto: Matthias Rummer, 2001 Flake of typical opaque "axe-flint" length: 57 mm |
| Last modified on: Sometime, 2004 |
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