Kanawha Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: Not given
name: label: Collector
content: Not Given
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-1731 (Kanawha Chert): Collection includes naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-1731 (Kanawha Chert)
label: Notes
content: Kanawha Chert, also known as Kanawha Black Flint, has 3 types. Type 1: Dark gray or very black in color. It has a vitreous to very vitreous, glossy, translucent texture. Type 2: Gray/brown to dark gray. Dull, cherty, and very brittle in texture. Type 3: Gray/mottled dark gray, tan, cream, brown, orangish/reddish. It has a cherty to very vitreous, translucent texture. All types become dirty white or ivory when weathered. All types may have quartz veins inclusions. Deposits of all types include tabular layers in outcrops, stream gravel, or alluvial pebbles and cobbles.
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content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Pennsylvanian, Form- Kanawha, Member- Kanawha (correlated in Kentucky with Kilgore Flint Member of Morse)
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content: Location remarks: Near the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Depot in Charleston, WV; Outcrops in and along the Eight Mile Creek, Eight Mile Hallow, Kanawha County, WV; "near the top of mountain 2 miles north of Anstead is a spring known as Indian Spring flowing off of shale underlying the flint" (Fowke, 1979:3); Occurs in Boone, Kanawha, Clay, Nichols, Webster, and Fayette counties in West Virginia; Marinbe chert names by White (1891), exposed along Kanawha River bluffs between Charleston and Kanawha Falls, Kanawha County, WV.
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content: Archaeology remarks: JDH and CD Cox were guided to a lithic workshop by John Blouts in his garden across the road from his house, up Eight Mile Creek a few yards in Eight Mile Hallow, Kanawha Co., WV - numerous cores and flake debitage. He insisted that he found many stemmed points on the site but displayed none; Abundant chert in the creek opposite the site; Glascow site (46KA229); Early to Archaic; St. Albans site; For Paleoindian use see Prufer & Babay, 1963: 47-48; Meadowcroft Rockshelter, 36WH297.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 5
place: label: Place
content: Nicholas County, West Virginia, 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: A599803-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone