Paramoudra
Sign in to saveParamoudras, paramoudra flints, pot stones or potstones are flint nodules found mainly in parts of north-west Europe: Norfolk (United Kingdom), Ireland, Denmark, Southern Basque Country (Spain) and Germany. In Norfolk they are known as pot stones and can be found on the beach below Beeston Bump just outside Beeston Regis. In Ireland they are known as paramoudras. The term paramoudras was first used by Buckland in 1817 and is a corruption of a Gaelic name, probably padhramoudras "ugly Paddies" or peura muireach "sea pears".
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- Subclass of
- stone
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Image
- Paramoudra on chalk outcrop - geograph.org.uk - 792764.jpg
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- Paramoudra
- shape
- solid torus
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Unter dem Begriff Paramoudra wird in der Literatur eine besondere morphologische Erscheinungsform von Feuersteinknollen kontrovers diskutiert (im englischen Sprachraum unter der Bezeichnung Potstone, in Dänemark als Flintkrukke bekannt).
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