Old Pueblo
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Found this in the desert near my home several ago when I lived just to the south of Tucson, Arizona. I always thought it might be an old gun flint, and Tucson is one of the oldest towns in Arizona, founded back in 1775 or so by the Spanish, and there was lots of fighting with Indians here back in colonial times. Anyway, my old house is along the Santa Cruz River, which runs north through Tucson and then some. Upriver, to the South, are other old Spanish towns and so forth, such as Tubac and Tumacacori. All that said, this thing was found where there used to be old trails and later a wagon road, running in between the Spanish settlements along the river, and as I said above, not far south of Tucson. And if you look at the top right corner of the stone, in the first photo, it was more squared when I originally found it, but at some point I dropped it on my tile floor and a little chunk came off there. The bottom is nice and flat and you can see near the supposed striking end, those rounded cracks that appear when the stone has been struck by something else, and I think they would be consistent with a strike in a downward motion, like from a gun flint hammer, or whatever that thing is called.
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