Hardyston Jasper
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: May 1992 to 1998
name: label: Collector
content: Jack Holland
label: Collector
content: Dan Long
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-1517 (Hardyston Jasper): Provenience includes prehistoric quarry. Collection from archaeological context. Known collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, archaeological specimens, and modern flint-knappers' work.
label: Notes
content: L-1517 (Hardyston Jasper)
label: Notes
content: Hardyston Jasper is also known as Bowers, Berks County, Durham, Eagle Jasper, Eastern Pennsylvania Jasper, Hardyston Quartzite, Macungie, Pennsylvania Jasper, Reading Prong Jasper, or Vera Cruz. It is a brown, yellow, red, orange, blue, black, or white jasper quartzite. When heat-treated it becomes red, maroon, or orange. When weathered it becomes brown. Presolved orthoquartzite, well-rounded and well-compacted quartz grains with little quartz cement inclusions. Texture is coarse to very fine. Deposits include bedded and residuum.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Early Cambrian, Series- Lower Cambrian, Form- Hardyston
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Lehigh, Bucks, and Berks counties, PA
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Used in all cultural periods
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Macungie, Lehigh 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: A599469-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone