Crescent Hills Chert (Burlington Variety)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: Aug 1990
name: label: Collector
content: J. D. Holland
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-351 (Crescent Hills Chert): Direct collection from outcrop. Provenience includes bedrock. Not a collection from archaeological context. Unknown collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, modern flint-knappers' work (?), and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-351 (Crescent Hills Chert)
label: Notes
content: Crescent Hills Chert is also known as Avon, Burlington, Crescent, High Ridge, Hinkson Creek, Kampsville, Marshall Mediocrity, Noix Creek, Republic, or St. Augustine. It is shades of white, gray, yellow, brown, tan, pink, red, purple, blue, or green. It becomes chalky white when weathered. It becomes white to all of the raw colors when heat-treated. It has a coarse grained to very fine grained, vitreous, chalcedonic texture. It may have fossiliferous graptolite (Dendroidea order) or crinoid inclusions. Deposits include nodular and tabular.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Mississippian, Form- Burlington
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Crescent Hills, Jefferson and St. Louis Cos., Missouri; West side of I-55, road cut, Ste. Genevieve Co., MO. (6/6/88 with R.M. Gramly). Material is identical to that at High Ridge, Jefferson Co., MO.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Paleo to Mississippian
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: High Ridge, Jefferson County, Missouri, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2071475
label: USNM Number
content: A598661-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone