Mt. Independence Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 29 May 1989
name: label: Collector
content: J. D. Holland
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-1240 (Mt. Independence Chert): Not a direct collection from outcrop. Provenience includes prehistoric quarry. Collection from archaeological context. Known collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, surrounding matrix, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-1240 (Mt. Independence Chert)
label: Notes
content: Mt. Independence Chert, also known as Clarendon Springs, is a blue, blue-black banded, or light to dark blue chert. When weathered iron staining is present. It has white linear quartz lines and iron pyrite crystals. It has a coarse to very fine texture. Deposits include tabular, bedded outcrops, and talus.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Ordovician, Group- Beekmantown, Form- Clarendon Springs
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Outcrops on the Mt. Independence massif and on small bedrock exposures on the adjacent Vermont and New York shores; Collected samples on the southeast side of Mt. Independence, Orwell Township, Addison Co., VT 1989; Northwestern Vermont.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Swanton Site, VtFr-1; East Creek Site, VtAd-12; cultivated fields at the slope base are littered with workshop debitage.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 42
place: label: Place
content: Orwell Township, Addison County, Vermont, 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: A599713-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone