Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: FlintWalker on January 14, 2010, 08:58:48 pm
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A friend of mine brought over a bucket full of old broken points last night for me to dig around in and maybe find some study pieces. I found this little piece in there. He said he picked it up because it looked "worked". I think it's a gun flint ??? It doesn't look like any kind of artifact I've ever seen, but it has been pressure flaked around all sides.
Looks like Carter cave, Flint river or some kind of chalcedony.
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Yes, it is, nice find.
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Here's some more, the two on the right are Trade Flints found in Maryland the white one on the left is what I shoot. The big ones are Musket Flints. Shannon, feel free to copy the small one with that Sonora, and I'll try them out. ;D
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Well I'll be danged! Dead ringer ain't it. 'Ol Dan'l Boone might have dropped that one ahuntin fer them thar bars ;D
Is the edge around the bottom or raised a little?
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The striking edge meets in the bottom quarter. I have a modern flint somewhere made from that same yellow rock.
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The French used a blond flint very similar to that. You can find some in Mobile Bay where they dumped ballast. Bill
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Very cool fine. :)
Pappy
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Makes one wonder what the history of it is...who last used it?
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Maybe Robert Butler, last year during hunting season. ;) It is hard to tell with all of us flinging rock in the woods, now. I know I have left some pretty points stuck in some critters I didn't find. And lost a few arrows ,too. 8)