Un atelier gallo-romain de pierres à aiguiser découvert à Buizingen (Hal, Belgique) : reconstitution des étapes de fabrication et détermination des origines géologiques et géographiques du matériau

Thiebaux, Aurélie; Goemaere, Eric; Herbosch, Alain

doi:10.3917/rdn.398.0143

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“…Most of these rocks were mined in (or extracted from) Caledonian inliers such as the London‐Brabant Massif in Belgium (Thiébaux et al . ), the Stavelot‐Venn Massif in Belgium (Hanut et al . ) and the Rocroi Massif at the French‐Belgian border (Jäger et al .…”

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Cross‐channel Connectivity: Wealden Whetstone Imports From Roman Britain to the Continent

Reniere

Thiebaux

Dreesen

et al. 2018

Oxford J Archaeology

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Summary The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate cross‐Channel exchange of calcareous sandstone‐type whetstones derived from the Weald (Sussex, UK) in the Roman period. The presence of this particular type of whetstone at several Roman sites on the Continent – more specifically, in Belgium, France and the Netherlands – is reported for the first time. The morphology, geological provenance, petrographic characteristics and distribution patterns are discussed, based on a comparative analysis with archaeological and geological reference material. The geological analysis identifies a common geological source for the Continental finds: the very fine‐grained, thin‐bedded, flagstone‐like calcareous sandstone beds of the Lower Cretaceous Wealden Clay Formation. These sandstones were, most probably, extracted in the north‐western part of the Weald area. The distribution pattern of the archaeological material implies the importance of personal mobility, with potential military affinities.

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“…), Buizingen (Belgium, Province of Flemish Brabant; Thiébaux et al . ) and Le‐Châtelet‐sur‐Sormonne (France, Champagne‐Ardenne; Jäger et al . ; Thiébaux et al .…”

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Cross‐channel Connectivity: Wealden Whetstone Imports From Roman Britain to the Continent

Reniere

Thiebaux

Dreesen

et al. 2018

Oxford J Archaeology

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“…'A slab of stone having been procured and cut to the approximate width of a Roman foot, parallel grooves were cut about 1 inch apart on each side sufficiently deep to allow the bars to be successively snapped off by a sharp blow, and the rough broken surface was then rubbed smooth.' This way of making the bars may be contrasted with that described from the early Roman fort at Usk in South Wales (Manning 1995) and the Gallo-Roman workshop at Buizingen in North Gaul (Thiébaux et al 2012). The cutting at these places was done with a mason's point, yielding ragged, V-shaped grooves and sloping rebates.…”

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A whetstone from south-east England at Newstead, Melrose (Trimontium): the reach of a major Roman stone industry

Allen¹

2017

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James Curle found at Newstead near Melrose an unusual whetstone of bar-shaped design, with rebates on the long edges, that is now on public display at the National Museum of Scotland (Edinburgh). It is made from a greenish-grey, calcareous, very fine-grained sandstone, attributable to sandstones in the Weald Clay Formation (Lower Cretaceous) outcropping in the Weald of southeast England. Carefully manufactured whetstones produced by a large business in this area occur throughout most of Roman Britain and are also found on the coastal mainland of northwest Europe. The Newstead example is the northernmost of its products known on a spatially exponential distribution of sites.

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“…Descriptions of the litho-stratigraphical units in the Cambro-Silurian BrabantLondon inlier are advanced by Verniers et al (2001) and Herbosch et al (2013). For more cartographic details of the Rogissart Member and Tubize Formation, see Thiébaux et al (2012).…”

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“…Artefacts at the site included ceramic, tiles and millstone fragments. Yet the most interesting finds were the traces of a whetstone workshop including 102 rough-outs and other production waste currently stored in types: 1) parallelepiped with rectangular cross-section, 2) elliptic, and 3) circular cylinder (Thiébaux et al 2012). The geological portrait of the Buizingen whetstones is based on macroscopic observation, microscopic petrography on thin sections, comparisons with geological materials collected in the field from outcrops and riverbeds, as well as reference collections of the Belgian Geological Survey.…”

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Roman whetstone production in northern Gaul (Belgium and northern France)

Thiebaux

Goemaere²,

Feller

et al. 2016

JLS

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Abstract:This paper focuses on the latest research on the production of Roman whetstones in northern Gaul. To date, little has been written about this specialised industry. However, three workshops producing whetstones were discovered recently in the north of Gaul in Buizingen (Province of Flemish Brabant, Belgium), Nereth (Province of Liège, Belgium) and Le Châtelet-sur-Sormonne (Department of Ardennes, France). Production debris and rough-outs recovered at these sites allowed us to reconstruct the operational sequence of manufacture, from the choice of raw material to the finished product. Technological studies enabled us to determine the production stages and highlight the similarities and differences between the three study areas. Analyses of the materials reveal the use of fine-grained sedimentary and low-grade metamorphic rocks outcropping near the workshops. All these rocks are linked to the Caledonian inliers of Brabant-London, Stavelot-Venn, and Rocroi. The large amount of waste found at Le Châtelet-sur-Sormonne, far more than that recovered at Buizingen and Nereth, is indicative of the economic importance of this whetstone workshop. This importance is reflected in the fact that whetstones from Le Châtelet-sur-Sormonne are distributed over a large area throughout Belgium, France (Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Picardie and Champagne-Ardenne regions), Germany, and the Netherlands. This paper presents the waste and rough-outs from the three production sites. It also defines rock types and their origins and offers insights into whetstone manufacturing processes and techniques.

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Un atelier gallo-romain de pierres à aiguiser découvert à Buizingen (Hal, Belgique) : reconstitution des étapes de fabrication et détermination des origines géologiques et géographiques du matériau

Cited by 6 publications

References 4 publications

Cross‐channel Connectivity: Wealden Whetstone Imports From Roman Britain to the Continent

Cross‐channel Connectivity: Wealden Whetstone Imports From Roman Britain to the Continent

A whetstone from south-east England at Newstead, Melrose (Trimontium): the reach of a major Roman stone industry

Roman whetstone production in northern Gaul (Belgium and northern France)

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