Rockhouse today?s finds

[kentucky Quinn]

Found four little flakes today of worked chert, the black piece with the orange specks is kind of neat, looks like it was a corner of something. Pretty stuff.

Then I found first one of these I?ve found. It?s large, not sure if it?s a core piece or and actual big chopper, but it is chert. Was just mixed in with other rock rubble along back wall. I knew it was something when my little rake hit it. Made the sound. Info on this piece is appreciated by you guys that have been doing this much longer than me. I was happy to pull it out of there

Thanks for the look

 

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[Tdog]

2, 3 & 8 has the porphyritic looking piece which I luuuuuv! Nice finds.

 

[Garscale]

Love the core

 

[kentucky Quinn]

2, 3 & 8 has the porphyritic looking piece which I luuuuuv! Nice finds.

So I didn?t know that word, looked it up. That piece looks like it was a squared corner of something maybe not. But it has a flat edge

 

[kentucky Quinn]

Love the core

So a core means that it is the center of the rock, did it serve a purpose or they were just harvesting the nice chert out of the center of a large nodule ? Just trying to learn. Thought it may have been a tool as I found it hidden in back of large sitting stone

Thanks

 

[smokeythecat]

I agree the bigger pieces look like cores. The Hopewell peoples (where I go in Ohio), would knock off sharp "flake knives" from the cores and use them for precision cutting. The cores are what was left over. Here are a couple Flint Ridge, Ohio cores in place before I picked them up from this past weekend.

 

[Garscale]

The last pic is a classic core. They struck bladelets from it as cutting tools. Many of the flakes you find were actually struck just for a cutting edge and then discarded.

 

[H.P.]

Nice..Good size pieces.

 

[antmike915]

Nice, I also agree with the core comments.

 

[scruggs]

Nice finds!

 

[kentucky Quinn]

Went back same spot today for about 2 hrs with bro...He got on board first , pretty flake knife scraper piece


He grabbed it up and was happy guy then I had my find. Another chunk of banded chert Think we might be in or near source

That was it today. Couple little flakes. This place is proving to be a little less giving so far.

 

[antmike915]

Went back same spot today for about 2 hrs with bro...He got on board first , pretty flake knife scraper piece
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He grabbed it up and was happy guy then I had my find. Another chunk of banded chert Think we might be in or near source View attachment 1935858View attachment 1935859View attachment 1935860View attachment 1935861View attachment 1935862

That was it today. Couple little flakes. This place is proving to be a little less giving so far.

That's some awesome material (I'm sure you don't need me to tell you that ). If you find something complete there it's going to be good.