Byram, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States, North America
Accession Date:
29 Dec 2016
Collection Date:
25 Apr 1997
Notes:
L-1346 (Lockatong Argillite): Direct collection from outcrop. Provenience includes talus. Not a collection from archaeological context. Known collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and naturally-weathered specimens.
L-1346 (Lockatong Argillite): Boulders of black argillite at base of vertical cliffs, east side of RT. 29, 1 mile north of Byram, NJ.
Lockatong Argillite is gray to black argillite. It is shades of brown, red-brown, gray, black, black and maroon, or white. It becomes gray or bleached light tan when weathered. It has a smooth to medium texture. May have inclusions of pyrite cubes, common small pits filled with authigenic, generated on the spot minerals. May also have small, irregular, clear, glassy analcime anhedra inclusions. Deposits include large blocks of regional contact metamorphic shale, tabular or platy.
Location remarks: Operating quarry, Point Pleasant, Bucks County, PA; Walnut Creek, Hunterdon Co., NJ; Extensive exposures along Mill, Neshaminy, and Dyers Creeks, Bucks Co., PA; Outcrops in Gaddis Run Valley, Bucks Co., PA; Southeastern PA; Delaware River Valley; Ralph Stover State Park and by traveling Rt. 32; Byram, NJ; Point Pleasant , PA.
Archaeology remarks: 28GL111, 28GL205, 28GL206, 28GL209, 28GL210; Pidcock sites (36BU154 and 155) located 2 miles south of New Hope, PA, within Washington Crossing State Park produced Lackawaxen, Vasburg-like, Fox Creek-like, Madison projectile points; Koens-Crispin site in Burlington Co.,NJ
