Dover Chert (AKA Potnik/Ft. Payne)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 6 Apr 1988
name: label: Collector
content: J. D. Holland
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-670 (Dover Chert): Direct collection from outcrop. Provenience includes float/residuum. Not a collection from archaeological context. Known collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, surrounding matrix, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-670 (Dover Chert)
label: Notes
content: Dover Chert, also known as Elco, Ft. Payne, or Potnik, Is gray, gray banded, or black chert. It may also be highly variable and mottled medium bluish gray (5B 5/1), G 2/1, light brown (5YR 6/4), or dark gray (N3). Very little color change when heat-treated. It becomes chalky when weathered. It may have cryptocrystalline quartz, dolomite, limonite, hematite, pyrite, chalcedonic quartz-filled cavities, detrital quartz, and bryozoan colony inclusions. It has relict calcareous bedding and fossil worm hole burrows. A coarse to medium grained texture. Deposits include nodules up to three feet in length.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Mississippian, Group- Sanders, Form- In or between Ft. Payne & St. Louis / Lower St. Louis
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content: Location remarks: Southwestern Kentucky and northwestern Tennessee
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content: Archaeology remarks: Extensive quarries and workshops in Stewart Cp., TN, including the Revnik site; Numerous antler billets recovered. The duck River swards were possibly made from Dover chert. Paleo-Indian fluted points and knives, junction of Livingston Creek and the Cumberland River at Eddyville, KY
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Stewart County, Tennessee, 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: A599617-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone