Upper Mercer Chert (Grey Variety)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 25 Oct 1997
name: label: Collector
content: Jack Holland
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-1474 (Upper Mercer Chert): Direct collection from outcrop. Provenience includes bedrock. Not a collection from archaeological context. Known collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, surrounding matrix, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-1474 (Upper Mercer Chert): Collected from the hillside 1st terrace south of Orlinger Barn. Large chuncks. Atop the hill are weathered, exposed blocks of Vanport Limestone & Chert. Collected samples from both sources.
label: Notes
content: Upper Mercer chert is also known as Coshocton, Coshocton Black, Coshocton Blue-Black, Coshocton Gray, Mercer, Upper Mercer, Nellie, Nellie Blue, Nellie Blue Flint, Nellie Black, Nellie Grey, Warsaw, Nellie Flint, Ohio Blue, and Sky Hill. It ranges in colors of blue, blue-black, shades of gray, mottled gray, and combinations of black and gray. It is medium to very fine, glossy in texture, with cryptocrystalline quartz, chalcedonic quartz filled cavities and fissures, and sponge spicules.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Pennsylvanian, Group- Pottsville, Form- Allegheny, Member- Upper Mercer
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Coshocton, Lawrence, Hocking, Holmes, Jackson, Licking, Mahoning, Muskingum, Perry, Portage, Sciota, Stark, Summit, Trumbell, Tuscarawas, Vinton, Wayne counties, Ohio. Clark farm near the town of Nellie, Coshocton Co., OH.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Used throughout all cultural periods; Paleo Crossing site, Medina Co., OH; Meadowcroft
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 4
place: label: Place
content: White Eyes Township, Coshocton 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: A599074-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone