✅ SOLVED I thought I better ask about this piece of agate

[EricTheCat]

Guys I don't know if I am crazy or just overthink everything. I think I might have found another artifact in my agate collection. I found it last year in my yard and so much of my concentration when I looked at it went in to making out the very fine banding as it is an agate that I missed some details that make me think this wasn't natural and probably wasn't incidental. There is quite a bit of natural surface on one side so this could be another trick on me by nature. Any thoughts on this one? Leave it up to me to find the oddities.

 

[TheTh3rd]

Guys I don't know if I am crazy or just overthink everything. I think I might have found another artifact in my agate collection. I found it last year in my yard and so much of my concentration when I looked at it went in to making out the very fine banding as it is an agate that I missed some details that make me think this wasn't natural and probably wasn't incidental. There is quite a bit of natural surface on one side so this could be another trick on me by nature. Any thoughts on this one? Leave it up to me to find the oddities.

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I'm far from an expert....

But I've been finding stuff VERY similar to your pics. I would go back where you found your agate because along with the pieces like yours I also found these in the same area I'm at.



My first thought was a form of flaking/knapping tool I don't think mine are agate though.
Now I'm thinking a broken piece or some disregarded debitage. Nonetheless I still keep them��

 

[eastTNJoe]

Could it be a remnant of a core since it still has that rind on it with some flaking?

 

[kcm]

Looks natural to me.

 

[EricTheCat]

I'm far from an expert....

But I've been finding stuff VERY similar to your pics. I would go back where you found your agate because along with the pieces like yours I also found these in the same area I'm at.

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My first thought was a form of flaking/knapping tool I don't think mine are agate though.
Now I'm thinking a broken piece or some disregarded debitage. Nonetheless I still keep them��

TheTh3rd,
Yes I've noticed you have been on to some great finds, always nice to see them. You are on to a great spot. I have yet to find my first point, but I have found 2 definite broken artifacts in my yard around a drainage that had been dug up recently, about 15 feet from where I found this agate. The agate was actually at the top of the hill but then it does get washed out there and is a very steep spot. I scour my yard, ever since I first started stumbling across agates. I've found well over 100 agates and dozens of fossils and a piece of petrified wood in my yard. That said, I'm heading to the fields on my next opportunity maybe tomorrow.

 

[EricTheCat]

Looks natural to me.

We are in the land of glaciers. They trick me all too often.

 

[smokeythecat]

It's gorgeous.

 

[EricTheCat]

It's gorgeous.

Thanks. I once knew a cat named smokey. My cat Luna says "hi". (or at least that's my best translation)

 

[kcm]

Did some reading - still looks natural to me - probably Chert. (Flint is a Chert)

 

[EricTheCat]

Did some reading - still looks natural to me - probably Chert. (Flint is a Chert)

Thanks for helping me look in to this! The material is definitely agate. With these pics I angled the camera to show the surface texture more than the material detail. It has extremely fine banding that would be hard to make show up in a picture. Another form of micro-crystalline quartz.

This one will stay with my other yard agates. Thanks everyone.

 

[unclemac]

I have thousands of those, very common find on parts of the left coast. I always pick them up and many of them look like what you have. Yours is not an artifact but it was a common material to use.

 

[gunsil]

Not only is your pretty rock agate, the color would qualify it as carnelian, and of cut and polishable grade.

 

[EricTheCat]

Spent over 4 hours walking the fields today. No artifacts. I did find two gorgeous agates though. Of course I will appropriately post those in the rock/gems area once I'm done treating them.

Edited to add, also found 2 golf balls. Hey Rock if you chance by this, we should start a company.

 

[willjo]

You always find some nice agate in your area.