Flint Ridge Chert (AKA Vanport)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: Not given
name: label: Collector
content: Not Given
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-526 (Flint Ridge Chert): Not a collection from archaeological context. Unknown collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-526 (Flint Ridge Chert)
label: Notes
content: Flint Ridge, also known as Vanport, Flint Ridge Chalcedony, Nethers, Flint Ridge Flint, Ferriferous, or Ribbon Flint, is a chert or flint. It is pink, yellow, gold, orange, rose, red, peach, mauve, blue-gray, rust, brown, beige, ivory, cream, black, white, or green. When heat-treated it becomes reds, green, or blue. When weathered it becomes faded colors of the raw material. It has quartz crystals, chalcedony, and barite inclusions. It has a fine to very fine texture. Deposits are lenticular and nodular, in thick sheets, or breccia.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Pennsylvanian, Group- Allegheny, Form- Vanport Limestone/Allegheny, Member- Vanport
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Flint Ridge, Muskingum and Licking counties, Ohio
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Used throughout all cultural periods; Paleo, Archaic, Woodland, Late Prehistoric; Paleo Crossing site, Medina Co., OH; Lukens Cache, Robbins complex of Late Adena
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: 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: A599083-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone