Thompson Township, Seneca County, Ohio, United States, North America
Accession Date:
29 Dec 2016
Collection Date:
Not given
Notes:
L-523 (Pipe Creek Chert): Unknown collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, archaeological specimens (?), and naturally-weathered specimens.
L-523 (Pipe Creek Chert)
Pipe Creek Chert is also known as NASA, Perkins, Plum Brook, or Prout. It is light blue with cloudy, darker blue coloration, light blue, light gray, milky white, maroon, red, or reddish wavy banding. One sample was a lustrous blue-black found in situ on Schaffer farm. When heat-treated it becomes red or brown. When weathered it becomes tan or light brown. It has inclusions of quartz lined vugs, brachiopods, and echinoderms. It has a very smooth, fine grained porcellaneous to nearly vitreous texture. Deposits include residuum - most available in cultivated fields.
Location remarks: Along Pipe Creek, farm of John Schaffer, Erie Co., OH; immediately south of NASA Plum Brook facility, Perkins Township, Erie Co., OH; Leona Warner farm, northwest of Rt. 269 & 547 intersection, Sect. 19, Thompson Township, Seneca Co., OH
Archaeology remarks: Lithic workshop and possibly quarry pits on the Warner farm (James Payne 1987); Crowfield, late Paleoindian period, from the Johnson Site, NYAC 662-S, Cassadaga, NY, identified by JDH at the Univ. of Buffalo, 12/88; Nettling Site, Early Archaic period in Ontario, Canada (Ellis et al. 1990:77)