big ol hunk of flint

[naturegirl]

big ol' hunk of flint

You can see from the insitu I thought I had an axe or something. No, but I guess it's a core, and the biggest chunk of flint I've ever found. someone correct me if I'm wrong, please. The broken ones really are heartbreakers for me, it is my first square knife, and the knapping on the scraper is really nice. and it's thin, I wish the base was there. I think it would be a good candidate to sketch because the flaking seems kinda different, and I can't get the camera to catch it. Last pic is my best hunting buddy, buckshot and his rescued dog rufus. couldn't ask for better company. rufus even loaded up into the truck like he's supposed to, everytime. It was a good start to the weekend, thanks for looking,

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[Felinepeachy]

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That IS a huge chunk isn't it. They are all over the field I hunt too. Oh those brokes are so nice, I know they are heart breakers but still good finds.

You have a couple of nice hunting buddies too. Don't you wish we could teach a dog to sniff out points? LOL

Peachy

 

[rginn]

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Cool, nice material. That first pic would have had me jumpin up and down, until I popped it up I guess.

 

[naturegirl]

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Yes peachy, I kept showing rufus the flakes so he could go find some more, he just wanted to eat them. so you find chunks this large?

rginn, I was happy with it even if it wasn't 'something'. It's the 'from whence they came' piece. besides, I'm easily entertained.

 

[Charmin]

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Those big chunks of flint are so much fun to find---it sure looked like you had an axe before you popped it up out of the ground.
And you have some great hunting buddies, too, Lisa. Rufus looks like a perfect artifact hound.

 

[1320]

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The patterns on that piece take me back in time...LOL

 

[naturegirl]

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The patterns on that piece take me back in time...LOL

it's pretty stuff, huh? kinda hypnotising

 

[1320]

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Just groovy baby

 

[trevmma]

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i will have to video tape my dog and how i trained him to do it, it took all of the fun out of it. after your 30th peice you will be sorry you taught your dog , i am. now i have lost a hobby i onced loved because of finding to many,

 

[trevmma]

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JUST KIDDING

 

[naturegirl]

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i will have to video tape my dog and how i trained him to do it, it took all of the fun out of it. after your 30th peice you will be sorry you taught your dog , i am. now i have lost a hobby i onced loved because of finding to many,

Dang! you had me going for a minute

 

[SEMO Rocker]

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i have my own opinion on those i think they broke big chonks off of that then shaped the chonks into arrowheads. thats what i think that is.

 

[naturegirl]

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Hi SEMO rocker, welcome to tnet I think that's what it was used for too, it looks like some big pieces were driven off of it.

 

[Neanderthal]

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Believe it or not, that's a large spall (flake) taken from an even larger core. The material is one of the favored in your area, Florence (Kaye Co).

Click on the link that says "Anatomy of a flake". http://www.arrowheads1.com/flaking/primer.htm

 

[uniface]

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You can see, looking at it, that they were removing relatively long, thin, flat flakes. Probably to make things like arrowheads from.

Look closer, and you can see two things :

1) that there was a void left by an eroded out fossil right in the middle of what would have been the next flake taken off, and

2) that they tried, a couple of times (notice the steps the attempts left), to take it off anyway.

These didn't pan out. So they backed up further and took the whole problem area off. Leaving what you found.

 

[naturegirl]

Re: big ol' hunk of flint

Believe it or not, that's a large spall (flake) taken from an even larger core. The material is one of the favored in your area, Florence (Kaye Co).

Click on the link that says "Anatomy of a flake". http://www.arrowheads1.com/flaking/primer.htm

Neanderthal.
my title should have been "big 'ol flake"! It looks so close to the illustration, thanks! Broadens my view of a flake, size Doesn't matter once again, illustrations demonstrate better.

thanks!

uniface, wow, thanks for the descriptive steps of what happend to my big 'ol hunk! I really appreciate it. I saw the fossil, it's part of this material almost always. I thought the void was neat on this one, but knew you don't find it on points.

 

[Tnmountains]

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Now that is a serious reduction flake! Cool looking piece an ancient man thought so too!!