First gravel bar find!

[Older The Better]

Found my first gravel bar point today. Can you see it buried among all the gravel haha?


I walked up and down the gravel for an hour or two looking for any buffalo or elk bones and I found nothing but some fossils. I was about to go home when I noticed this guy glowing like a beacon from the mud bank on the side of the gravel bar. I’ve never found so much as an obvious flake down there. It’s nearly perfect and almost perfectly white it’s not quartz it’s a flint but it really turned my day around.




It’s kind of amazing that it has been lost for thousands of years and a recent flood uncovered it and placed it on the side of a mud bank. I found it in the tiny window before the next time the river came up. Had I not been at the right place at the right time it would washed it into the river and possibly lost for another thousand years.

 

[smallfoot]

It's a beauty!

 

[CreakyDigger]

Yeah, it really is a gem!

 

[Tdog]

Beautiful piece. Looks like it may be novaculite.

 

[arrow86]

Nice find that’s a killer point I would be thrilled to find that

 

[sandchip]

Superb!

 

[Huzzah!]

Could it be white quartz? I've found a few pieces of it at a knapping site I've been messing with and to the touch it feels like flint

 

[Tdog]

Could it be white quartz?

I don't think so because of the look of those lighter colored hinges on the surface. The find location is also close to the source in western Arkansas and southeastern Oklahoma.

Check out this known piece of knapped novaculite...

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1...#imgdii=rlWTuNscK5DMYM:&imgrc=fVOMpJHngOLh8M:

 

[Older The Better]

Almost 0 quartz around here, found one quartz hammer stone in an Indian site, I do find a lot of white flint debitage, I was wondering novaculite too. Thought maybe an off chance it’s a really clean bit of Burlington with out the darker stripes or speckles. The only problem is Burlington is not translucent at all this point let’s just a touch of light through

 

[Six S]

That’s a dandy, congrats.

 

[GaRebel1861]

Pretty point!

 

[Tdog]

Getting late here so sun is low on the horizon. Still, I want to put up a piece I found here for material comparison. I believe this is a piece of novaculite very similar in color and texture to OTB's piece. A rare material in these parts.

 

[Older The Better]

Yours has a bit more clear to it but close I don’t know much about novaculite maybe a variance in material



Here’s compared to a piece that is Burlington...I’m 95% sure


They are close in color but even the thin tip of Burlington doesn’t let light through and it’s more grainy my little point is a bit more waxy

 

[Tdog]

They will not be identical but the material of your find is closer to chalcedony than to burlington IMO.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Great looking Point. Congrats on your first creek find.

 

[Older The Better]

They will not be identical but the material of your find is closer to chalcedony than to burlington IMO.

I’d agree I don’t think it’s Burlington I worked with plate chalcedony from the flint hills when I was in school it was more blue and even purplish as far as I remember so I don’t think it’s from there but maybe a different source. I think chalcedony or novaculite are front runners
Here’s another point from probably the same stuff, it does have a bit more clear to it

 

[arrow86]

Getting late here so sun is low on the horizon. Still, I want to put up a piece I found here for material comparison. I believe this is a piece of novaculite very similar in color and texture to OTB's piece. A rare material in these parts.

I’m pretty sure your piece is crystal quartz

 

[Tdog]

I’m pretty sure your piece is crystal quartz

With all due respect but no way.

 

[reuellis]

BeUtiful find!

 

[arrow86]

With all due respect but no way.

Maybe not crystal but sure looks like quartz