Corriganville Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: Jun 1992
name: label: Collector
content: Cris Bergman
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-792 (Corriganville Chert): Direct collection from outcrop. Not a collectino from aracheological context. Unknown collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-792 (Corriganville Chert)
label: Notes
content: Corriganville Chert is also known as Bedford, Bedford County, Corginsville, Hollidaysburg Flint, Huntingdon Cream, or New Scotland. It is faded light gray, dappled, mottled, or white and black. When weathered it become light gray, brown, has iron oxide staining or is white. It has fossiliferous inclusions. It has a very smooth, opaque texture. Deposits include tabular with scoriaceous limestone matrix surface.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Devonian, Series- Lower Devonian, Stage- Lochkovian, Group- Helderberg, Form- Old Port( (PA), Member- Corriganville
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Type section, a railroad cut 0.3 miles southeast of Corriganville, Alleghany Co., MD; PA, WV, VA; Exposed by U.S. 220 road cut on Altoona By-pass, PA; Hampshire Co., WV
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Late Prehistoric Susquehannock, site 46HM73, Hampshire County, WV; Early Archaic, Dove Site
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 10
place: label: Place
content: 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: A599814-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone