Boppers and knapping tools

[theonlinefisherman]

Hey all.

This is a runoff of the conversation about loatstones. A site in White County in Tennessee produced these and about two hundred pieces in my personal collection. I have not papered any of them, but there are pieces from gorgeous agate basins - one about five inches long and a G10 to stone axes that could have been made by a cro-magnum. But these were in one cache. Of serious interest is the bopper. I knap, and this is a bopper or I am a young girl.





















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[rock]

The first one I believe is a handle for a fire starter JMO But what is a bopper used for?

 

[Tnmountains]

Could be. I have a flint spall with the cortex on that was used to pressure flake. I have seen a few whole knapping kits that were found in context. Most had the billet of antler and preforms.