Potnik Chert (AKA Ft. Payne)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 25 Apr 1987
name: label: Collector
content: Martha Gettinger
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-672 (Potnik Chert): Direct collection from outcrop. Provenience includes float/residuum. Not a collection from archaeological context. Known collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-672 (Potnik Chert)
label: Notes
content: (Information obtained from Dover Type Sheet): 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, detrial 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. SEE ALSO: FT. PAYNE
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: (Information obtained from Dover Type Sheet): Geology: Epoch- Mississippian, Group- Sanders, Form- In or between Ft. Payne & St. Louis / Lower St. Louis
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: (Information obtained from Dover Type Sheet): Southwestern Kentucky and northwestern Tennessee
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content: Archaeology remarks: (Information obtained from Dover Type Sheet): 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. Paleoindian 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: 13
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: A599611-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone