Nice Chert found at Surry Va Site.

[Nedhawks]

No artifacts lately but I did find this chunk of chert with attached concretions at a 60 acre site in Surry county. I'm assuming this piece of rock traveled here by human hand. This is from the lower Piedmont of the James River in Virginia.

 

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[Tdog]

To me, that looks like the outer flakes removed from a core. Good find!

 

[SD51]

Nice find, we were given some by a homeowner last year when we visited WV!

 

[ToddsPoint]

Looks like English ballast flint. Gary

 

[arrow86]

Looks like English ballast flint. Gary

I thought that too ..... I had a mystery item a few months ago that looks identical to these and it’s was identified as English Flint ... you may Have been the one that Identified it for me

 

[redbeardrelics]

You now have 3 votes for ballast flint. There may be a whole pile of it where it was originally offloaded, which is probably along a shoreline where the ship/boat could have been anchored, and I would suspect there to have been numerous early sites where this could have happened along the James River. If you can locate the site, it would probably be an interesting site to metal detect too.

 

[Thirdeyeartifactguy]

Looks like some high quality stuff

 

[smokeythecat]

I also think it's English. We have found some buried in old colonial sites this past year.

 

[Huzzah!]

Great looking material Ned.

 

[Nedhawks]

Unfortunately I no longer have access to the site. I'm stuck on a coastal job near the interstate now and all I'm finding is modern trash. Looking forward to some new topsoil soon.