Flying Saucer Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: Not given
name: label: Collector
content: Not Given
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-1397 (Flying Saucer Chert): Collection includes raw material, outer surface, modern flint-knappers' work, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-1397 (Flying Saucer Chert): Named "Flying Saucer" for its nodular shape.
label: Notes
content: Flying Saucer Chert is a gray chert. It has small vugs giving a pitted apprearance, tiny milk-white blue chalcedony-like inclusions, and tiny vugs with quartz crystals. It has a smooth texture except for minute pitting opaque, faint concentric banding. Deposits include nodular.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: n.d.
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Cadiz, Trigg County, KY
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: n.d.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Cadiz, Trigg County, Kentucky, 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: A598490-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone