Normanskill Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: Feb 1994
name: label: Collector
content: Adrian Burke
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-436 (Normanskill Chert): Direct collection from bedrock (?). Not a collection from archaeological context. Unknown collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-436 (Normanskill Chert)
label: Notes
content: Normanskill Chert is also known as Coxsackie, Deepkill, Flately Brook Flint, Hudson, River, Mt. Merino, Pleasantdale, or Pleasantville. It is a greenish, shades of green to opaque black chert. When weathered it becomes white to light gray. It may have graptolite inclusions. It has a medium to very fine grain texture. Deposits include tabular and bedded.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Ordovician, Series- Late Ordovician, Group- Normanskill, Form- Normanskill Shale
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Flately Brook quarries, Easton Township, Washington, NY; Flint Mine Hill, Green Co., NY; West Athens Hill
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Fint Mine Hill quarried; West Athens Hill quarries; Pleasantville quarried; Flately Brook quaries; Fluted points, Kilmer Site, Steuben Co., NY
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 15
place: label: Place
content: Port of Albany, Rensselaer County, New York, 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: A598942-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone