Chipping Debris? Please let me know.

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Hello,

Being new to this, I have an awful lot to learn. Can anyone look at these pictures and tell me whether or not these are some sort of debitage? I have photos showing both sides of the pieces. I'm most interested in the piece that I believe to be obsidian. Does it look like flakes may have been taken off of it? Please put in your two pennies everyone, thanks in advance.

 

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[redbeardrelics]

From what I can see, most of them look like debitage, and #12 might be a point with some damage. What part of the country did you find them in? HH

 

[rock]

Chips and brokes is what I see. This is my pile I have gotten so far. I have to go through it all to make sure there are no tools but most of it is going in a hole in my backyard in the winter.

 

[monsterrack]

You are doing good, you find more broken stuff than whole stuff

 

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You are doing good, you find more broken stuff than whole stuff

lol I know, but I'm trying. This isn't the easiest thing to learn on your own, I only have three whole points to show for over a year of looking. I'll get there eventually.

 

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From what I can see, most of them look like debitage, and #12 might be a point with some damage. What part of the country did you find them in? HH

Found in the north east, thanks for posting

 

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Chips and brokes is what I see. This is my pile I have gotten so far. I have to go through it all to make sure there are no tools but most of it is going in a hole in my backyard in the winter.

Do you think flakes to make points might have been taken off the obsidian?

 

[NC field hunter]

Do you think flakes to make points might have been taken off the obsidian?

I'm pretty sure what you think is obsidian is actually slag glass. It's a byproduct of blacksmith work. It tends to have a yellowish tent when held to the light. #12 on your chart looks like an arrowhead with a broken tip. Nice stuff!!

 

[redbeardrelics]

I'm pretty sure what you think is obsidian is actually slag glass. It's a byproduct of blacksmith work. It tends to have a yellowish tent when held to the light. #12 on your chart looks like an arrowhead with a broken tip. Nice stuff!!

I agree completely with NC Field Hunter. There was a lot of iron ore slag like that around site of the old Harford Furnace, where I grew up at in Harford County, Maryland. I wish I had kept some of it, as it occurred in a lot of interesting variations, depending upon the impurities in the ore they were cooking down.

 

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I had no clue that 12 was a broken point, I'm shocked, thanks guys.