just a musket flint (English)

[GatorBoy]

I've found several musket Flint to this point but for some reason I have found nothing but French and Spanish today I finally found what I thought would have been the most numerous in the area a nice little English one

 

[rock]

I added some other pics on the flints if you would have a look.....please GB.

 

[GatorBoy]

Yep looks like you definitely have some musket flint there.

 

[Cosmo]

Glad I caught this post. I also thought these were little scrapers.

 

[GatorBoy]

Where are you located Cosmo? that material looks like Knife River Flint or root beer flint... and those do look like little scrapers to me.

 

[Cosmo]

Gator I got them in a small collection I bought at a yard sale a few months back. Guy said they were from Arizona.

 

[GatorBoy]

Oh ok they sure do look like material I would expect to see from North or South Dakota.
I just checked out your other thread it looked like there was pieces from several states I'm pretty sure I saw at least two that look like they were from Georgia one of them a stemmed point called and Abby other material also look like Texas material

 

[GatorBoy]

I'll bet you a dollar these are from Georgia southwest Georgia actually by the patina.
The one with the thickest white patina probably a Hardy

 

[Cosmo]

You could definitely be right a lot gets lost in translation as arrowheads are passed down through family's.

 

[Cosmo]

Thanks for I D that's your backyard u would know

 

[GatorBoy]

It's no problem at all I'm not sure I'm correct but I think I am.
If nothing else I gave you a couple leads to check into cool find for a yard sale man

 

[Tnmountains]

Found the gun parts but never the flint

 

[GatorBoy]

Ha... I've got the opposite problem.

 

[GatorBoy]

Speak of the devil this might be interesting although in very very bad shape

 

[Charl]

I've found several musket Flint to this point but for some reason I have found nothing but French and Spanish today I finally found what I thought would have been the most numerous in the area a nice little English one

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Definitely not an English gunflint.

Even though I am stating that as if it were an undisputed fact, if pressed, I would admit it's just an opinion. Nice find.

 

[GatorBoy]

I imagine you've seen lots of used up English Flint from saltwater environments and the patina that goes with them from salt right

 

[GatorBoy]

Where it was found is in direct association with the US military from the years 1836 to 1842
There was trade going on with the French.. Almost everything else was English and it's not local material







So to humor your opposition here would you do everyone the favor of explaining what you are basing it on?
Thank you by the way.
This isn't even a Native American artifact other than the conflict was to remove Seminoles.
.... Absolutely nothing pressing around here for me......

 

[NC field hunter]

I have to back Gator here. I've always been told French is honey colored and English is smoke colored.

 

[rock]

Man after looking at all of the flints I guess I will have to go back through my broken flint bucket to make sure there aren't any in it. Might take a while cause its deep.

 

[rock]

I have to back Gator here. I've always been told French is honey colored and English is smoke colored.

Smoke color being black included?

 

[GatorBoy]

If I backlight the one I found...and others I've seen they are opaque smokey brownish gray that appear black otherwise.