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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: Jaeger on July 26, 2009, 10:06:01 am

Title: rock I.D. please
Post by: Jaeger on July 26, 2009, 10:06:01 am

I.D. these rocks please, one is belize flint one is Engish and one is Texas ,I really like the way one flakes and need to know what it is, the other 2 are a little tougher than I like.

Title: Re: rock I.D. please
Post by: aaron on July 26, 2009, 11:49:13 am

the center one is english, i'd say.

Title: Re: rock I.D. please
Post by: El Destructo on July 26, 2009, 12:45:25 pm

This is a good one for either Cowboy...or Hillbilly....I would say that the left one is Belize...and the right side one is Georgetown Chert....or maybe Perdeles too....I am not a pro at this Rock Stuff........ ::)

Title: Re: rock I.D. please
Post by: Hardawaypoints on July 27, 2009, 04:15:03 pm

I'd say the one on the left is from Texas. If it flaked easily, it was probably heated.  That stuff can be a bear to pressure flake when it is raw.   I have some English flint that looks exactly like the center one, it is pretty tough too.  I have no experience with working chert from Belize, though I saw similar colored flakes as the point to the right when I was at some Mayan ruins in Belize a few years ago.  Hope this helps.

Jim

Title: Re: rock I.D. please
Post by: svaldrin on July 27, 2009, 07:07:23 pm

I am pretty sure that the left is Texas and the middle is English and that leaves the other to be Belize.

Title: Re: rock I.D. please
Post by: sailordad on July 27, 2009, 09:36:31 pm

i dont know about the toe on  the ends,but the one in the middle is english flint.
i have a few slabs of it and man oh man i that stuff tough.

Title: Re: rock I.D. please
Post by: PW on July 27, 2009, 10:29:18 pm

 I caint tell, but they look really sharp!!!