Burlington Chert (AKA Avon)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 11 Apr 1988
name: label: Collector
content: J. D. Holland
label: Collector
content: C. D. Cox
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-180 (Burlington Chert): Direct collection from outcrop; Provenience includes bedrock and prehistoric quarry; Known collection procedure; Not a collection from an archaeological context; Collection includes raw material, outer surface, surrounding matrix, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-180 (Burlington Chert)
label: Notes
content: Burlington Chert is also known as Avon, Bowling Green, Crescent, Crescent Hills, Crescent Quarry, Grimes Hill, High Ridge, Hinkson Creek, Noix Creek, Hominy Creek, Iowa Burlington, Kampsville, Marshall, Marshall Mediocrity, Republic, St. Augustine, or Whetstone Creek. It is red, blue, green, white, brown, gray, pink, purple, yellow, tan, tan with plain, mixed, mottled, or striped colors. It becomes white, light gray, red, or pink when heat-treated. It becomes white to brownish gray when weathered. I may have Grapolite fossil inclusions of the Dendroidea order. It has a calcareous, coarse to very fine grain, vitreous, chalcedony-like texture. Deposits include nodular and tabular. SEE ALSO: AVON CHERT
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Mississippian, Series- Middle Mississippian, Stage- Osagean; Valmeyeran in Illinois, Form- Burlington Limestone
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Outcrops in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and Arkansas; Hinkson Creek, Columbia, Boone Co., MO.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Used from Paleo to late Woodland
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 16
place: label: Place
content: Indian Point Township, Knox 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: A598252-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone