West Waterville Township, Lucas County, Ohio, United States, North America
Accession Date:
29 Dec 2016
Collection Date:
Not given
Notes:
L-519 (Dundee Chert): May be a direct collection from outcrop. Not a collection from archaeological context. Unknown collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and naturally-weathered specimens.
L-519 (Dundee Chert)
Dundee Chert, also known as Selkirk, is a dirty white, light gray or black chert. Very fine grained bituminous limestone that weathers into gray fissile material. It has silicified brachiopods, solitary and colonial corals, crinoids, echinoderms, tentaculitids, and black stylolite inclusions. It has a grainy to smooth, crystalline, very crystalline, sub lithographic texture. Deposits include nodules and bands.
Location remarks: W. Waterville Township, Lucas Co., Ohio; Campbell Quarry, NE 1/4 Sec. 36, T35N R2W, Cheboygan Co., Michigan; Quarry 1.5 km north of Nanticoke, Ontario; Norfolk Quarry 3 km north of Port Dover, Ontario; Vola Beach, Lake Erie, Ontario; outcrop above Dry Creek, 1.3 km north of Cheapside, Ontario; In and along Sandusk Creek, a short distance upstream from Lake Erie confluence, Walpole Township, Haldimand County, Ontario.
Archaeology remarks: Saint Marie Among the Hurons site complex; Paleo period, northwestern Ohio; Heron Site, Late Woodland
