Boggs Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 25 Oct 1997
name: label: Collector
content: Jack Holland
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-1457 (Boggs Chert):
label: Notes
content: L-1457 (Boggs Chert)
label: Notes
content: Boggs Chert is a black, nearly white, or gray chert. It may be colored with carbon oxide and carbon in Muskingum County. When weathered it becomes gray. It has an arenaceous, gritty texture. It may be fossiliferous. Deposits are found in nodules.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Pennsylvanian, Group- Pottsville, Form- Pottsville, Member- Boggs
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Route 93 roadcut on thr north side of the highway, about half way up the steep hill, 0.5 miles north of Mt. Pleasant, Washington Township, Hocking County, Ohio; Boggs Chert also found in Coshocton, Licking, Muskingum, Perry, and Tuscarawas counties of Ohio; Exposures in Licking River Valley in vicinity of Dillon Falls, NW Falls Township, Zanesville West; East of Glenford, in Section 10, Hopewell Township, Perry Co., Ohio; Dela Wise property, Section 10, Hopewell Township, Muskingum County, Ohio; Outcrop along road and in a west w. trib. of Bartlett run near Falls-Muskingum Township line, NW Muskingum Co., OH
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: n.d.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 4
place: label: Place
content: Reading, Perry 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: A599128-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone