Long Lac (near) / Hearst (near), Ontario, Canada, North America
Accession Date:
29 Dec 2016
Collection Date:
Feb 1995
Notes:
L-898 (Hudson Bay Lowland Chert): Not a direct collection from outcrop. Provenience includes gravel deposits. Not a collection from archaeological context. Known collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, modern flint-knappers' work, and naturally-weathered specimens.
L-898 (Hudson Bay Lowland Chert)
Hudson Bay Lowland Chert, also known as Coxsackie, Deepkill, Mt. Merino, Normanskill, or Pleasantdale, is a gravel chert. It is light gray concentric banding, thin bands are nearly white, small, light gray circular splotches, medium gray, white splotches, streaks of iron staining. When weathered light tan to brown with some iron stains. It has druzy quartz crystal vugs, iron pyrite both oxidized and non oxidized. Also fossil fragments. It has a smooth texture. Deposits include gravel nodules.
Geology remarks: Epoch- Paleozoic, Form- Ekwan/Severn/Stooping River
Location remarks: Abundant chert pebbles collected by Bill Fox from the river bank in front of York Factory in northern Manitoba.
Archaeology remarks: Fitzsimmons site (AfGw-82), Haldimand Township, Ontario, Canada (Parker 1993); Saint Marie Among the Hurons site complex (Tomenchuk 1995:105-159)
