Pipe Creek Chert (AKA Plum Creek)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 9 Jul 1989
name: label: Collector
content: J. D. Holland
label: Collector
content: Stefana Paskoff
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-510 (Pipe Creek Chert): Not a direct collection from outcrop. Provenience includes gravel deposits. Collection from archaeological collection. Unknown collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, surrounding matrix, archaeological specimens, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-510 (Pipe Creek Chert)
label: Notes
content: Pipe Creek Chert is also known as NASA, Perkins, Plum Brook, or Prout. It is light blue with cloudy, darker blue coloration, light blue, light gray, milky white, maroon, red, or reddish wavy banding. One sample was a lustrous blue-black found in situ on Schaffer farm. When heat-treated it becomes red or brown. When weathered it becomes tan or light brown. It has inclusions of quartz lined vugs, brachiopods, and echinoderms. It has a very smooth, fine grained porcellaneous to nearly vitreous texture. Deposits include residuum - most available in cultivated fields.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Devonian, Series- Middle Devonian, Form- Prout
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Along Pipe Creek, farm of John Schaffer, Erie Co., OH; immediately south of NASA Plum Brook facility, Perkins Township, Erie Co., OH; Leona Warner farm, northwest of Rt. 269 & 547 intersection, Sect. 19, Thompson Township, Seneca Co., OH
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Lithic workshop and possibly quarry pits on the Warner farm (James Payne 1987); Crowfield, late Paleoindian period, from the Johnson Site, NYAC 662-S, Cassadaga, NY, identified by JDH at the Univ. of Buffalo, 12/88; Nettling Site, Early Archaic period in Ontario, Canada (Ellis et al. 1990:77)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 18
place: label: Place
content: Perkin Township, Erie County, Ohio, 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: A599079-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone