Esopus (Siliceous Shale) Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 1999
name: label: Collector
content: Joe Hewitt
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-1544 (Esopus Chert): Provenience includes streambed. Not a collection from archaeological context. Known collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, modern flint-knappers' work, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-1544 (Esopus Chert): These two Esopus samples have developed a heavy, snow-white patination.
label: Notes
content: Esopus Chert is also known as Bowmantown, Carbon County, Carbon County Black, Schoharie/Esopus, or Sharon Springs. It is a shale flint. It is dull black and gray or black in white. It shows no visible color change when heat-treated to 500 degrees F. When weathered it shows a near silver patina or light gray to light tan. May have pyrite crystal inclusions. Texture is very coarse to fine grained. Deposits include bedded, tabular outcrops and rounded chunks in stream beds.
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content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Devonian, Series- Lower Devonian, Stage- Ulsterian, Group- Tristates, Form- Esopus
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Rt. 20 road cut, southeast side of Cherry Valley exit, Rts. 20 and 166, Cherry Valley Township, Otsego County, NY; See DeLorme map no. 64,1988.
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content: Archaeology remarks: Fluted point of Esopus chert found on the western shore of Canadarago Lake, Otsego Co., NY, July 1, 1987, by Howard Arndt; Middle Woodland, Middle to Late Archaic; West Esopus chert quarry site.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Cobleskill, Scholtarie County, New York, 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: A598949-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone