Delaware Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 9 Jul 1989
name: label: Collector
content: J. D. Holland
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-537 (Delaware Chert): Direct collection from outcrop. Provenience includes bedrock. 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-537 (Delaware Chert)
label: Notes
content: Delaware Chert is also known as Bloomfield, Hayden Run, Honey Creek, Marble Cliff, Ten Mile Creek, Tenmile Creek, or Traverse. It is a white chert. When weathered it becomes chalky. It has fossil fragment inclusions. It has a medium texture. Deposits include tabular in limestone matrix.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Devonian, Series- Middle Devonian, Stage- Onesquethaw, Form- Delaware
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Upper Scioto River drainage of Ohio; Collected samples of the Hayden Run variety with Stefena Paskoff and Gene Edwards of Sandusky, OH, from outcrops along Honey Creek, Bloom Township, Seneca Co.; Franklin Co., to Sandusky Co., OH
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Early Archaic component, ca. 9000, at Caps Sun site, OH (Holzapfel 1995:4-5); Knief multicomponent site, Logan Co., OH (Britt 1994: 17); PaleoCrossing site, Medina Co., OH (Tankersley and Holland 1994)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 7
place: label: Place
content: Bloom Township, Seneca County, Ohio, 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: A599134-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone