Snake Hill Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 9 Sep 1998
name: label: Collector
content: Ian Petherick
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-1489 (Snake Hill Chert): Collection includes raw material, outer surface, archaeological specimens, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-1489 (Snake Hill Chert): Silicified shale; Quarry/workshop; 3 reduction flakes (artifacts); *see map in notes/comments section of inventory sheet*
label: Notes
content: Snake Hill is a chert or silicified hale. It is gray black to black, darker than esopus chert, more resembling Hathaway chert from Kill Kare State, St. Albans, Vermont. There is insignificant color change when heat-treated. When weathered it becomes tan to brown. May have oxidized iron stains, thin white quartz lines, or small quartz speck inclusions. Texture is smooth and opaque. Deposits include blocky, tabular layers in fissile shale, chunky pieces weathering out of hillside. Also, the shale matrix is fissile and ferruginous at above location.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Ordovician, Series- Middle Ordovician, Form- Snake Hill Shale
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Hillside outcropping east side of Fitch Road across from Hill's dairy farm east side, north end of Saratoga Lake, Saratoga Township, Saratoga County, NY; Made futile attempts to locate quarry outcrop and workshop in the ravine immediately south of the field source with Stefana Paskoff, 1992. The site was described to me by Roger Ashton, Cambridge, NY, who has photographs of the source. Heavy underbrush, mosquitos, and poison ivy too contentious; Occurs as glacial pebbles and bobbles in Schoharie Creek, Schoharie County, NY; Also near Bayis Creek Reservoir, Delorme map 52-A1 Westerlo Township.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Fluted point found on the Putnam farm, Saratoga County, NY of Snake Hill Chert; Prehistoric quarry pits at the hillside location given above.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Saratoga Township, Saratoga County, New York, 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: A598944-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone