Fort Hood Chert (AKA CowPlop)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 11 Mar 1990
name: label: Collector
content: J. D. Holland
label: Collector
content: C. D. Cox
label: Collector
content: Dave Crawford
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-714 (Fort Hood Chert): Direct collection from outcrop. Not a collection from archaeological context. Known collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, modern flint-knappers' work, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-714 (Fort Hood Chert)
label: Notes
content: Fort Hood Chert is also known as Edwards, Cowplop, Heiner Lake, Niggerhead, Scarborough, Fort Hood Yellow, Fort Hood Gray, Heiner Lake Tan, Owl Creek Black, or Gray-Brown-Green. Colors range from 5Y to 2.5Y or are light tan to yellow with some white speckles. When weathered brown or dark patinas become weathering rinds or chalky white. Medium to very fine, glossy texture. Edwards Limestone is the overwhelming source of chert on the base (Ft. Hood), occurring as tabular and nodular forms in the bedrock, as a residual lag on the surface and in soils on chert-bearing strata, and as alluvial and colluvial gravels.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Cretaceous, Series- Lower Cretaceous, Group- Trinity/Edwards, Form- Edwards/Edwards Limestone
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Fort Hood Military Reservation, Texas, and surrounding area; Coryell County, Texas
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Projectile points of the following cultural periods were made of Fort Hood chert: Paleo-Indian-Plainview, Angostura, Golondrina; Archais-Pedernales; and Late Prehistoric-Scallorn
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Ft. Hood, Bell / Coryell County, Texas, 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: A599637-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone