Eversole Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 22 Oct 1997
name: label: Collector
content: Michael Kagelmacher
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: S-1825 (Eversole Chert): Provenience includes bedrock. Collection includes raw material and outer surface.
label: Notes
content: S-1825 (Eversole Chert): Also: Columbus chert - Eversole variety?; From bedrock outcrop below O'Shaghnessy Dam (within 40 or 50 yrds from the dam itself and perhaps 40 or 50 feet above the water level in the lower portion of the Scioto River).
label: Notes
content: Eversole Chert is a chert that is light in color. It contains some fossils. It is impure in nature. Deposits include nodules and layers in brown dolomite.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Devonian, Form- Columbus, Member- Eversole
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Well exposed at the O'Shaughnessy Dam located on the Scio River, one mile north of the Delaware-Franklin County line in the southwestern corner of Delaware County, Ohio.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Such material (Eversole chert) was unfit for fashioning implements and probably not used by primitive man
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 9
place: label: Place
content: Concord Township, Delaware 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: A599076-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone