piece of jade

[unclemac]

now I am not claiming this is anything, could be worked on one edge a bit, could be a scrap of something. Not a broke anything and way too valuable a stone to just discard or use as a quick expedient tool. But it surely is BC looking nephrite...about 2 inches square, found smack dab in the right place. Opinions?

 

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[joshuaream]

It kind of looks like a tool to me, but Jade (Nephrite, Jadeite, Serpentine, etc.) doesn't break in clean chips like chert, jasper or flint. Nephrite, especially, simply doesn't have natural cleavage (in the rock sense, not the curvy sense.) It doesn't break easily or cleanly, which is precisely why ancients made adzes and celts out of it.

The undulations in the material, the bulb of percussion and force cone, the eraillure scars, the hinge flake termination and edge flaking eliminate the possibility of jade in my opinion. Probably a nice piece of jasper.

 

[unclemac]

It kind of looks like a tool to me, but Jade (Nephrite, Jadeite, Serpentine, etc.) doesn't break in clean chips like chert, jasper or flint. Nephrite, especially, simply doesn't have natural cleavage (in the rock sense, not the curvy sense.) It doesn't break easily or cleanly, which is precisely why ancients made adzes and celts out of it.

The undulations in the material, the bulb of percussion and force cone, the eraillure scars, the hinge flake termination and edge flaking eliminate the possibility of jade in my opinion. Probably a nice piece of jasper.

now that makes a lot of sense to me...i just couldn't see such a valuable trade lithic being used as a quick made and tossed aside tool.

 

[scepter1]

I found this on a Puget Sound beach. Maybe jadeite?

 

[IAMZIM]

It kind of looks like a tool to me, but Jade (Nephrite, Jadeite, Serpentine, etc.) doesn't break in clean chips like chert, jasper or flint. Nephrite, especially, simply doesn't have natural cleavage (in the rock sense, not the curvy sense.) It doesn't break easily or cleanly, which is precisely why ancients made adzes and celts out of it.

The undulations in the material, the bulb of percussion and force cone, the eraillure scars, the hinge flake termination and edge flaking eliminate the possibility of jade in my opinion. Probably a nice piece of jasper.

I tried to knapp a piece of jade I had once, didn't go well at all, now I know why hahaha!