STRANGE FOR AN ARTIFACT?

[picnic42]

I found this last night in the landscapers dirt pile we been digging now for several weeks.
This may be normal... but I have not seen a pic or heard mention of it anywhere.

It seems as if there are "geode" type crystals in this artifact. on one side... it has two tiny little shiny "occlusions" (I wonder if that is the right word to use) And on the other side... it has a larger little slit of shiny crystal type material.
I tried to photograph this in as great a detail as possible with the camera we have. I hope you can see it clearly enough to help me identify this phenomenon as something... and maybe help identify the artifact material itself.
this is in an area of a large dirt pile scrapped up for landscaping use... this is also where we have been finding chips and flakes and broke pieces and points.

Can you all help me on this?

 

[artorius]

In my neck of the woods (PA), the cherts often have crystal inclusions, pits, and occasionally recognizable fossils. I have a small chert triangle found upstate which has an impression of a fossil brachiopod - the knapper followed the fossil impression for the shaping of one edge of the point.

artorius

 

[uniface]

The silica content of chert is not always uniform.

 

[picnic42]

Can anyone tell me what kind of material this is? Peggy thinks it may be kentucky limestone?
I have no clue! We are soooo new to this!

 

[The Grim Reaper]

It's not limestone. It is definitely a type of flint and may be Boyle Chert. It's hard to tell sometimes from pictures just exactly what the colors are. Quartz crystals are very common in flint and chert and finding an artifact that isn't broken through one of the crystal is rare since that would be a weak spot in the stone.

Here's a nice Lost Lake I found years ago that has a quartz inclusion in it.

 

[larson1951]

hey picnic
even if you don't find out the material type (which i don't know either) you have a better thing goin'
your woman likes to go hunting with you
lars

 

[geo4472]

could be Depalite

 

[picnic42]

hey picnic
even if you don't find out the material type (which i don't know either) you have a better thing goin'
your woman likes to go hunting with you
lars

Yes INDEED!

 

[Twitch]

Crystals, small geodes essentially, in the knapped material is fairly common in KY. As other posters have pointed out they often time add character to a point. They also made the material harder to work and are very commonly found, along with certain fossils, at break points in an artifact. Some of the coolest points I have are from a brown flint that have very nicely formed white spiral fossils in them. Crinoid fossils in points are common as well.

 

[Tnmountains]

I agree with the experts. It looks like you guys are digging up the whole farm and having a blast doing it
TnMtns