Flint or Non-flint

[Pull_tab_mike]

Found this in a field that gives out a lot of flint. Is it flint or something that looks like flint?

Thanks

HH

PTM

 

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[DCMatt]

Does it make sparks?

DCMatt

 

[Pull_tab_mike]

Does it make sparks?

Nope no sparks, but when I went to strike it slivers came off and they where sharp as hell and black.

DCMatt

 

[DirtDigler]

That's flint okay. Often oxidizes on the outside to a white color. Black flint is usually English in origin, as I recall.

 

[ohioaxeman]

has a flint nodule look to it, but i'm not gonna say yes yet! Post it in the Indian Artifacts section of TNET for a really quick answer!

 

[baspinall]

Also kinda looks like Jasper.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

As a former Geology Minor college student, and longtime "rockhound," I can assure you the object your found is one of the many varieties of chert nodules, and its specific variety is flint.

By the way... DirtDigler is correct... flint-nodules often weather to a light-grey-ish/white-ish color on the outside. I found dozens just like yours on many "rockhounding" trips to Paint Rock Valley (in Alabama). The streambeds there contained many chert, flint, and jasper nodules, which had eroded out of the surrounding limestone.