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Virginiaguy

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Found this today in a feeder creek bed close to where I found a few points last week. Looks like a scraper to me but I don't know much. Any thoughts? Thanks very much.
 

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Looks like a naturally fractured piece of quartzite with cortex present IMO.
 
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It is a waste flake taken off a quartzite cobble. A short flake with a large bulb of percussion (a wedge shaped flake) is typical of a hammer stone flake. They were likely finding cobbles in the creek and doing some rough flaking there.
 
Natural flake- bulb of percussion is absent. No evidence of intentional workmanship.
 

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