Boyle Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: Not given
name: label: Collector
content: Jeff Stallard
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-1619 (Boyle Chert): Not a collection from archaeological context. Collection includes raw material.
label: Notes
content: L-1619 (Boyle Chert):
label: Notes
content: Boyle Chert is also known as Airport, Camden, Cedar Valley, Cochrane, Coffee Creek, Falls, Fredonia, Hopkinsville, Jeffersonville, Kentucky Blue, Mammoth Cave, Marble Hill, Munfordville, Root Beer, Root River, Scipio, Solon, Sonora, or Ste. Genevieve. It is white with very light purplish, gray, or brown splotches, whites, tans, reds, pink, blue-grays, grays, or blacks. When heat-treated it becomes purple, red, or maroon. It may have inclusions of brachiopods, crinoids, corals, or drusy, crystal vugs. It has a texture that is smooth to glossy, translucent, opaque, or both. Deposits include elongated nodules and nodules outcrop in dolomite bedded between shales. SEE ALSO: CEDAR VALLEY CHERT; STE. GENEVIEVE
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Devonian, Form- Boyle Dolomite
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Boyle, Garrard, Lincoln, Cumberland, Madison counties, KY; Powell, Montgomery, Bath counties, KY
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Paleo-Indian to Ft. Ancient
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Owingsville, Bath County, Kentucky, 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: A598454-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone