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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: FlintWalker on June 14, 2009, 11:34:36 pm

Title: Some field finds ( new pictures)
Post by: FlintWalker on June 14, 2009, 11:34:36 pm

I picked these up today in a tobacco patch.  Nothing fancy, but fun and good excercise.  That Hardin got me a little excited.  It's got a bad impact fracture, but the base is a fine example of what the one I made the other day should  have looked like.  It's made out of Sonora flint.  That stuff just gets prettier as it ages.

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Title: Re: Some field finds (one heart breaker)
Post by: Woodland Roamer on June 14, 2009, 11:45:31 pm

Nice finds Shannon. I wish we still had the tobacco patches here that are now subdivisions.  >:(

Alan

Title: Re: Some field finds (one heart breaker)
Post by: Staver on June 15, 2009, 12:01:02 am

Wow!!  Looks like you had a real productive day in the field! 8)  Joe H

Title: Re: Some field finds (one heart breaker)
Post by: sailordad on June 15, 2009, 12:25:17 am

dude thats is just way cool :o 8)

i have never found anything like that,always wanted to but i must be in the wrong part of the country or something

Title: Re: Some field finds (one heart breaker)
Post by: cowboy on June 15, 2009, 08:03:26 am

Nice finds Shannon! I looked that Hardin up and yup, they look exactly like that ;D. Think I'm going to make some to add to the collection.

Title: Re: Some field finds (one heart breaker)
Post by: Bone pile on June 15, 2009, 08:26:21 am

Looks like it was reworked alittle after it broke
Bone pile

Title: Re: Some field finds (one heart breaker)
Post by: billy on June 15, 2009, 11:43:14 am

Hey Shannon, what part of the country do you live??

Title: Re: Some field finds (one heart breaker)
Post by: FlintWalker on June 15, 2009, 09:23:45 pm

Billy, I live in Monroe Co. Kentucky.

Title: Re: Some field finds ( new pictures)
Post by: FlintWalker on June 24, 2009, 11:22:10 pm

I hit that same field the first pictures came from again this evening.  The farmer had just plowed and it hadn't had enough rain on it to really expose a lot of points.  I found a few pieces, but nothing really exciting.
  The first picture is the field.  It sits on a bench above a creek bottom (good spot for a camp) ;D  The other pics are some points as I found them.

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Title: Re: Some field finds ( new pictures)
Post by: FlintWalker on June 24, 2009, 11:25:07 pm

These last pictures are everything I found today and a few I picked up monday in a different field.

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Title: Re: Some field finds ( new pictures)
Post by: mullet on June 25, 2009, 12:02:47 am

 It's a shame ya'll have to deal with plows to find points. Nice finds.

Title: Re: Some field finds ( new pictures)
Post by: FlintWalker on June 25, 2009, 12:53:14 am

I forgot the picture of the field.
  Eddie, believe it or not...most all the broken points I find are ancient breaks.  Unless it was a pretty big point to begin with, the plows and discs don't break as many as you would think. ???

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Title: Re: Some field finds ( new pictures)
Post by: Timo on June 25, 2009, 08:21:19 am

Cool lil snyders in that last pic. I also notice that there is alot of the same material? Have you looked for the source? Got to be around there somewhere. Looks alot like ther Reed Springs mat we have south of here.

Title: Re: Some field finds ( new pictures)
Post by: GregB on June 25, 2009, 08:30:48 am

Great pic's Shannon! I hadn't been looking for points in a long time, will have to go give it a try again one of these days.

Title: Re: Some field finds ( new pictures)
Post by: cowboy on June 25, 2009, 09:02:25 am

Some more nice finds Shannon! I need some of that good therapy and excercise :). That was an interesting conversation yesterday. Every time you said, oop - here's another one. The phone got quiet and the suspence was killin me :D. Some good points in that bunch - hope ya find that six inch clovis in there after the rains ;D.