Hudson Bay Lowland Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: Feb 1995
name: label: Collector
content: Pat Julig
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-898 (Hudson Bay Lowland Chert): Not a direct collection from outcrop. Provenience includes gravel deposits. Not a collection from archaeological context. Known collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, modern flint-knappers' work, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-898 (Hudson Bay Lowland Chert)
label: Notes
content: Hudson Bay Lowland Chert, also known as Coxsackie, Deepkill, Mt. Merino, Normanskill, or Pleasantdale, is a gravel chert. It is light gray concentric banding, thin bands are nearly white, small, light gray circular splotches, medium gray, white splotches, streaks of iron staining. When weathered light tan to brown with some iron stains. It has druzy quartz crystal vugs, iron pyrite both oxidized and non oxidized. Also fossil fragments. It has a smooth texture. Deposits include gravel nodules.
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content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Paleozoic, Form- Ekwan/Severn/Stooping River
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content: Location remarks: Abundant chert pebbles collected by Bill Fox from the river bank in front of York Factory in northern Manitoba.
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content: Archaeology remarks: Fitzsimmons site (AfGw-82), Haldimand Township, Ontario, Canada (Parker 1993); Saint Marie Among the Hurons site complex (Tomenchuk 1995:105-159)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 10
place: label: Place
content: Long Lac (near) / Hearst (near), Ontario, Canada, 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: A599262-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone