Brownsville (North of), Licking County, Ohio, United States, North America
Accession Date:
29 Dec 2016
Collection Date:
26 Aug 1995
Notes:
L-1183 (Vanport Chert): Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and naturally-weathered specimens.
L-1183 (Vanport Chert)
Vanport Chert, also known as Flint Ridge (OH), is smooth chert. It is every natural color and countless combinations, but black in uncommon. Thermal alteration does not produce the color green. Heat-treated specimens are hard to identify, but usually become more glossy than raw material. When weathered the surfaces become more dull. It has numerous fossil inclusions. Deposits include limestone matrix.
Location remarks: Flint Ridge, Licking and Muskingum counties, Ohio; John Nethers property along County Hwy. 8, NW 1/4 sec. 6, Hopewell Twp., Muskingum Co., Oh.
Archaeology remarks: All cultural periods; Meadowcroft