Lets see some quartz and rhyolite

[bsit1361]

Hoping to see some of the east coast points. Here in the mid atlantic we have a lot of quartz and rhyolite to find but not too much of anything else if your close to the coast. Here are some of my favs. Let's see yours.

 

[Snakeman]

Rhode Island finds

Some points from Rhode Island all personal finds

 

[birdpointgriswold]

Never looked in creek/river one time! Had planned on going last weekend got rained out

Johnathan Griswold

 

[NC field hunter]

Never looked in creek/river one time! Had planned on going last weekend got rained out

Johnathan Griswold

Any time , let me know. I'm serious!

 

[GatorBoy]

Real nice display of personal finds there Snakeman. I don't get to see Rhode Island stuff very often. Thanks for sharing. ....SNAKEMAN and GATORBOY. Sounds like we should be wearing spandex and capes. Ha.

 

[birdpointgriswold]

Real nice display of personal finds there Snakeman. I don't get to see Rhode Island stuff very often. Thanks for sharing. ....SNAKEMAN and GATORBOY. Sounds like we should be wearing spandex and capes. Ha.

The adventures of SNAKEMAN AND GATORBOY...COMING TO A SWAMP NEAR YOU

Johnathan Griswold

 

[GatorBoy]

Haha..

 

[Tnmountains]

Some Quartz points I found. Couple Morrow mountains some stemmers and one scraper. Though quartz is available here they did not use it very often due to the abundance of Fort Payne chert and horn stone.

 

[GatorBoy]

Nice! Its not that often I hear chert being referred to as superior.

 

[budsmith19]

Only two I have ever found here in Mississippi that are quartz

 

[Tnmountains]

Nice! Its not that often I hear chert being referred to as superior.

Than to quartz??Well I guess quartz is a chert to some degree. I always get goofed up on flints,cherts and quartz not studying geology. But it is true that Fort payne chert is superior and is hornstone which may fall more under flint are both more superior than quartz when is comes to artifacts.
A fun read on quartz v.s flint=chert versus real flint(gun flint)

The Quartz Page: Flint and Chert

 

[GatorBoy]

Oh I know its better. Its my states main material. It is a microcrystaline Quartzsite.

 

[NC field hunter]

Than to quartz??Well I guess quartz is a chert to some degree. I always get goofed up on flints,cherts and quartz not studying geology. But it is true that Fort payne chert is superior and is hornstone which may fall more under flint are both more superior than quartz when is comes to artifacts.
A fun read on quartz v.s flint=chert versus real flint(gun flint)

The Quartz Page: Flint and Chert

I would say that all lithic had their pros and cons chert is really similar to flint . Even some geologist will say they are one in the same. I know y'all have heard me say this, but geology.com is a great site, that will explain the two, and let you know their similarities. They even talk about artifacts made from the two. Artifacts rarely come up in geological discussion. This site explains stones of all types in a manner that the average man can comprehend! I suggest all artifact collectors check it out. For such a plain Jane name, this web site rocks. ( maybe a little pun intended) please do your self a favor, take 30 seconds and check the site out. It can't hurt at all!!

 

[NC field hunter]

You gotta get polorized. You can see fish and points under the water.

Better believe I'm not only polarized now, I've got medicated polarized. They just didn't invent them in time! It's crazy how cool polarized glasses are. It is like HD life.

 

[NC field hunter]

<img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=674348"/>Some points from Rhode Island all personal finds

I love your lay out bro. Great looking points

 

[NC field hunter]

Here are a few more of my flint pieces. Man, this is just what I could find in my room tonight.

 

[rock]

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Only two I have ever found here in Mississippi that are quartz

Those are nice but arent quartz. They look like chert.

 

[Snakeman]

...more from RI/New England

...did the happy dance that day!...Gatorboy and snake man...hummmmm LMAO
Here are some more RI/NE points note the broken clovis at the bottom center! very rear for this area

 

[Snakeman]

...more from RI

The large frame are points from Nantucket Island MA the green background frame and small white background frame are all RI

 

[GatorBoy]

Impressive! Thanks for the view. What's the material of that Clovis?

 

[Snakeman]

Looks like the black chert found in upstate New York it is the same material as the two black points in the green frame