Hamden Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 1998
name: label: Collector
content: Michael Kagelmacher
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-1635 (Hamden Chert): Provenience includes float/residuum. Not a collection from archaeological context. Known collection procedure.
label: Notes
content: L-1635 (Hamden Chert)
label: Notes
content: Hamden Chert is a light gray, gray, yellow, brown, or reddish brown flint. When weathered it becomes yellowish brown (10YR 5/6). It have black flecks and white chalcedony-filled vugs. It has a hard, dense and somewhat vitreous texture. It can be smooth or lumpy porcellaneous or may grade to coarse. Deposits are one to one and one-half foot thick between Middle Kittanning coal and Lower Kittanning coal.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Geoloogy: Epoch- Pennsylvanian, Form- Allegheny, Member- Hamden
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: On the tributary of the East Branch of Raccoon Creek, one and one-half miles north of Starr in south-centeral Starr Township, Hocking County, Ohio; Stratigraphic record taken in a ravine in the west of the railroad; large cobbles from streambed west of Rt. 328, 1 mile north of Rt. 56 junction in Starr, Starr Township, Hocking County, OH.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Stout and Schoenlaub state that Hamden chert was not attractive for the manufacture of implements bty primitive man because of its quality.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Starr Township, Hocking 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: A599095-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone