Kettle Point Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: Not given
name: label: Collector
content: James Payne
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-900 (Kettle Point Chert): Direct collection from outcrop. Not a collection from archaeological context. Unknown collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-900 (Kettle Point Chert)
label: Notes
content: Kettle Point Chert is also known as Ausable, Kettle Point Chert, Port Franks Chalcedony, Port Franks Chert, or Port Franks Flint. It is dark blue-grey with occasional darker banding to a mottled medium gray. When heat-treated or weathered it turns pink to mauve. It has inclusions of conodonts, radiolaria, sponge spicules, erinaceous, foraminifera, and scolecodents. It has a very smooth texture. Deposits include nodular and bedded.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Devonian, Series- Middle Devonian, Group- Hamilton, Form- Ipperwash
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Ipperwash State Park, Lambton County, Ontario; submerged outcrops extend from the tip of Cape Ipperwash approximately 1350 meters north into Lake Huron ranging in width from less than 50 to 100 meters; Canadian Pacific Rail cut at Thedford, Ontario; Twin Maples Marina, Kettle Point, Lake Huron, Ontario.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Used by certain Middle Woodland groups along the Nottawasaga River and among the historic Petun in the Collingwood area of Ontario; Saint Marie Among the Hurons site complex.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Ontario, Canada, 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: A599215-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone