Hathaway Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: Aug 1989
name: label: Collector
content: Jack Holland
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: S-1816 (Hathaway Chert): Provenience includes a modern quarry. Collection includes raw material.
label: Notes
content: S-1816 (Hathaway Chert)
label: Notes
content: Hathaway Chert is also known as Brooks Quarry Flint, Clarendon Hills, and St. Albans. It is a light blue, mottled blue-black, or black chert. When weathered it becomes whitish gray or light tan with iron encrustations. Radiolarians comprise approx. 15% of the rock. May have pyrite inclusions. Very smooth to rough texture. Deposits include tabular, platy, and bedded in shale deposits.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Ordovician, Series- Middle Ordovician, Group- Trenton/Beekmantown, Form- Iberville Shale
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: East side of Hathaway Point, Kamp Killkare State Park, and Rock Island, St. Albans Bay, Franklin County, VT; Northwestern Vermont; Brooks farm, east side of Rt. 36, St. Albans Township, Franklin County, VT.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Michaud Paleoindian site, Lewiston, ME; Brooks farm prehistoric quarry/workshop; much debitage and broken bifaces litter the area, no culturally identifieable artifacts.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 37
place: label: Place
content: St. Albans, Franklin County, Vermont, 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: A599729-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone