Briar Creek Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 1997
name: label: Collector
content: Mark Bracken
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-1555 (Briar Creek Chert): Provenience includes float/residuum. Not a collection from archaeological context. Known collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, modern flint-knappers' work, and (3) heat-treated specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-1555 (Briar Creek Chert): These pieces were thermally altered. Brown is not and the green color is not natural. See L-103.
label: Notes
content: Briar Creek Chert, also known as Flint River, Brier Creek, Savannah River Agate, Savannah Creek Agate, Allendale, Coastal Plains, is a black, tan to red, yellow, cream or white chert. It has a dull luster and is grainy. It becomes pink, dark red, or orange when heat-treated. It becomes white to skimmed milk bluish white patination when weathered. It may have coral and sponge inclusions and nodular deposits. SEE ALSO: FLINT RIVER CHERT
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Eocene, Group- Jackson; Clairborne, Form- Ocala Limestone in western Georgia; Barnwell in east and central Georgia
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Prehistoric quarries of Rts. 23 and 301, along Briar Creek, between Girard and Hiltonia, Screven/Jenkins Counties, Georgia. Also in Dougherty, Macon County, Georgia. Collected residuum nodules samples alone County Rd. 5132 and at abandoned Stony Bluff Park, Savannah River, Burke County.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Paleo-Indian usage; Middle Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 4
place: label: Place
content: Adrian Burke County, Georgia, 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: A598190-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone