Washington Beach Wood

[scepter1]

Petrified (agatized/opalized) Wood

Side A is "polished" so smooth that I dropped it twice trying to take a photo without covering up the overshot(?) knapping.




Side B

 

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[quito]

Good looking material, that petrified wood is hard to beat!

 

[sandchip]

Beautiful material. Petrified wood in my area never seems to be agatized like that.

 

[rock]

I hope you find some finished out of that material what a smoker it would be.

 

[scepter1]

I hope you find some finished out of that material what a smoker it would be.

agatized wood I found on the same beach area



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[dognose]

I have been collecting since 1967, I have seen few petrified wood relics. Fewer high grade.
In the region I actively search, I would theorize I have a close to zero chance of finding any relic made of petrified wood. Could happen, but I would be shocked.

If they were using petrified wood for relics, there would be petrified wood flakes found around the sites, in addition to that relic you found. petrified wood makes a very nice looking relic.

Here is a fine 2 13/16" Petrified Wood Clovis. Rogers COA. Northern Sold For: $800.00
See Tony Putty Auction held Oct 21 2017

 

[scepter1]

I have been collecting since 1967, I have seen few petrified wood relics. Fewer high grade.
In the region I actively search, I would theorize I have a close to zero chance of finding any relic made of petrified wood. Could happen, but I would be shocked.

If they were using petrified wood for relics, there would be petrified wood flakes found around the sites, in addition to that relic you found. petrified wood makes a very nice looking relic.

Here is a fine 2 13/16" Petrified Wood Clovis. Rogers COA. Northern Sold For: $800.00
See Tony Putty Auction held Oct 21 2017

This petrified (agatized/opalized) wood point was brought here, so no quality wood flakes available. It was found in Western Washington on a Puget sound beach, but was knapped in Eastern Washington on the other side of the Cascade Mouintains, or perhaps Eastern Oregon. I have also found knapped wood pieces of local wood, but the wood here is not high quality and the knapping shows rather poor results.

High quality wood that I dug on Saddle Mountains in Eastern Washington:

 

[unclemac]

hard to beat the variety in Washington State for lithics...we are spoiled that way.

 

[unclemac]

whenever you post it makes me want to hit the beach...jonesing in a big way right now....