Payson Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 16 Jul 1988
name: label: Collector
content: H. R. Moore
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-111 (Payson Chert): Provenience includes samples collected from a roadcut. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, modern flint-knappers work, heat-treated specimens, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-111 (Payson Chert): Lithic type not confirmed.
label: Notes
content: Payson, also known as Hardin, Adams County Flint, Frederick, Illinois Agates, Sunglow Agates or Brown County, is a type of chert that is cryptocrystalline in texture. It is light brown with streaks, swirls, and dots, ranging from red to orange in color. Sometimes with bands of light gray or pale reddish brown. When weathered, it is light tan to grayish brown with a cortex and dark blue to grayish black without a cortex. SEE ALSO: ILLINOIS AGATES, SUNGLOW AGATES
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch-Mississippian, Form- St. Louis Limestone
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Limited to a 1.6 km stretch of a small intermitted stream in southeastern Adams County, Illinois.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Paleoindian and Early Archaic periods: Clovis, Dalton, Hardin Barbed, St. Charles, Thebes, and Neuberger points.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 19
place: label: Place
content: Pike / Adams County, Illinois, 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: A598275-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone