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Source Description
"Real European Flint (found in chalk keds) not found here. Picked up at Marblehead, Massachusetts where ships landed (used as a ballast in ships)."
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
8g84q446p
label
European flint
core
obj
dtoType
object
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
8g84q446p
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
European flint
description
"Real European Flint (found in chalk keds) not found here. Picked up at Marblehead, Massachusetts where ships landed (used as a ballast in ships)."
date
["[ca. 1500–1600]"]
year
1500
rights
No Copyright - United States.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
identifierLocal
029_02_00_002
institution
Cambridge Public Library
collections
Charles F. Walcott Archaeological Collection, circa 1960-1970
subjects
Archaeological assemblages
subjectsGeographic
Essex (county)
Marblehead Harbor
Massachusetts
North and Central America
United States
genreBasic
Objects
genreSpecific
artifacts (object genre)
arrowheads
Stone implements
typeOfResource
Artifact
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Essex
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
Source extras
institutionArkId
ft848v87w
collectionArkId
c534j7675
schema:latitude
42.5
schema:longitude
-70.8333
extent
1 item : flint ; 50 x 40 mm
notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Original object was digitized in 2016 as a TIFF image.
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no
dcId
8g84q446p
type
object
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
c73895599eaef54a