Mt. Merino Chert (AKA Pleasantdale)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 29 May 1992
name: label: Collector
content: J. D. Holland
label: Collector
content: Bob Welsh
label: Collector
content: Stefana Paskoff
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-457 (Mt. Merino Chert): Provenience includes bedrock and modern quarry. Not a collection from archaeological context. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-457 (Mt. Merino Chert)
label: Notes
content: Mount Merino Chert is also known as Coxsackie, Deepkill, Hudson River, Normanskill, or Pleasantdale. It is gray, grayish-blue, grayish-green, dark gray, black in alternating bands and mottling of these colors. When heat-treated it has rosy hues. When weathered it becomes white to gray-green. It may have iron inclusions. It has a coarse to very fine, glossy texture. Deposits include tabular layers and veins and shale matrix.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Ordovician, Series- Middle Ordovician, Group- Normanskill, Form- Mount Merino
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Quarry/workshops at Pleasantdale, Schaghticoke Township, Rensselaer Co., NY., USGS Troy North Quadrangle, 7.5 min. series; Outcrops at Mt. Merino south of Hudson, NY; Flint Mine Hill
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Lamoka and possibly Brewerton Side- notched and Snook. Kill projectile points found on the site. Hill is covered with chert debitage, broken bifaces in all stages of reduction, and hammerstones of sandstone and metamorphic rock.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 11
place: label: Place
content: Pleasantdale, Rensselaer 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: A598941-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone