Vanport (AKA Flint Ridge) Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 1983
name: label: Collector
content: D. C. Waldorf
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-1736 (Vanport Chert): Direct collection from outcrop. Provenience includes prehistoric quarry. Not a collection from archaeological context. Known collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and modern flint-knappers' work.
label: Notes
content: L-1736 (Vanport Chert): Unusual chert black, glossy, and translucent with white inclusions.
label: Notes
content: Vanport Chert, also known as Flint Ridge (OH), is smooth chert. It is every natural color and countless combinations, but black in uncommon. Thermal alteration does not produce the color green. Heat-treated specimens are hard to identify, but usually become more glossy than raw material. When weathered the surfaces become more dull. It has numerous fossil inclusions. Deposits include limestone matrix.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Pennsylvanian, Form- Allegheny, Member- Vanport
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Flint Ridge, Licking and Muskingum counties, Ohio; John Nethers property along County Hwy. 8, NW 1/4 sec. 6, Hopewell Twp., Muskingum Co., Oh.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: All cultural periods; Meadowcroft
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 6
place: label: Place
content: Hopewell Township, Muskimgum 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: A599119-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone