found a chunk of black flint, do you think its been worked?

kygirl1227

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found a chunk of black flint, do you think it's been worked?

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jamey

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a flake was taken off the black one,you should take pics of the edge with a macro setting,its all about the edge on rocks.
 

choo

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The piece of black flint looks to be worked to me! Cool fossil!
 

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When enlarge I your photo I see no clear sign of knapping, but the end toward your thumb could be but it hard to tell from your photo.
 

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To me the black flint looks to be a mid section of what would of been a nice oval knife or something like that. I find a lot of broken ones in the creek that at one time was larger. If it was just a piece of broken flint there would be cortex on it which I see none. jmo
 

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