Penns Creek Chert (AKA Shriver)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 2 Nov 1992
name: label: Collector
content: Brad Koldehoff
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-582 (Penns Creek Chert): Provenience includes bedrock and prehistoric quarry. Collection from archaeological context. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, surrounding matrix, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-582 (Penns Creek Chert)
label: Notes
content: (Information obtained from Old Port Type Sheet): Old Port Chert is also known as Corriganville, Eliberry, Herndon, Mahantango, New Creek, New Scotland, Penns Creek, Shriver, or Troxelvile. It is black or white light to dark gray. It becomes white or gray when weathered. It has a very fine to coarse texture. Deposits includes isolated nodules. Cherts are thin to medium bedded in the lower portion of the formation and as continuous beds in the middle portion. Also deposits in residuum.
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content: Geology remarks: (Information obtained from Old Port Type Sheet): Geology: Epoch- Devonian, Series- Lower Devonian, Form- Old Port, Member- Ridgeley/Shriver/Mandata/Corriganville/Falling Springs(?)
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content: Location remarks: (Information obtained from Old Port Type Sheet): Well exposed along Route 225 one-quarter mile (0.4 km) south of Mandata, Northumberland Co., PA; Exposed along West Branch Mahantango Creek where the creek makes a sharp bend to the west from its north-northwest course 1.25 miles (2 km) west of Mahantango, Snyder & Juniata counties, PA; Where present chert occurs as float along the Susquehanna River and in Deer Valley; West Perry Township, Snyder Co., PA.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: (Information obtained from Old Port Type Sheet) n.d.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 11
place: label: Place
content: Penn Township, Snyder County, Pennsylvania, 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: A599500-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone