Post by Sabre52 on Dec 12, 2008 14:55:49 GMT -5
Howdy folks,
A couple of days ago one of our members, Wildshack, asked for some flint strikers for using in a flint and steel fire starting demonstration for his school class. The flint here in the yard is a little impure and fossiliferous and was hard to spark so I went down to an old Amerind village site here on the ranch and picked up some knapping spalls from the area. The Amerinds used only the purest flint for their artifacts so that stuff sparked real well. While I was there, I noticed the stream deposit where the natives obviously collected their flint so I went out for a hike down there this morning. Man, what a deposit! Some of the prettiest flint nodules and maybe chert ( more of a vein deposit) that I've ever seen and very translucent too. Also some really odd shaped nodules in the area. Anyway, I know you're probably sick of flint but here are a few more pics. Thanks for looking....Mel
OK get this, "rainbow banded carnelian colored flint" if this were slabbed, it would almost look like Brazilian Agate and it's just as glassy too:
The chert/flint vein deposit. Again, lots of yellow and orange and very translucent:
And this one has areas of "pigeon blood" flint. Near the center is translucent with red blood spots:
Some of the weird shaped nodules. High quality flint inside too:
And finally, a couple of leavings by the Amerinds. A razor sharp discoidal scraper and a huge core or sharpened flint hunk probably used as a chopper or maybe just the left over hunk after smaller preforms were knocked off it.
A couple of days ago one of our members, Wildshack, asked for some flint strikers for using in a flint and steel fire starting demonstration for his school class. The flint here in the yard is a little impure and fossiliferous and was hard to spark so I went down to an old Amerind village site here on the ranch and picked up some knapping spalls from the area. The Amerinds used only the purest flint for their artifacts so that stuff sparked real well. While I was there, I noticed the stream deposit where the natives obviously collected their flint so I went out for a hike down there this morning. Man, what a deposit! Some of the prettiest flint nodules and maybe chert ( more of a vein deposit) that I've ever seen and very translucent too. Also some really odd shaped nodules in the area. Anyway, I know you're probably sick of flint but here are a few more pics. Thanks for looking....Mel
OK get this, "rainbow banded carnelian colored flint" if this were slabbed, it would almost look like Brazilian Agate and it's just as glassy too:
The chert/flint vein deposit. Again, lots of yellow and orange and very translucent:
And this one has areas of "pigeon blood" flint. Near the center is translucent with red blood spots:
Some of the weird shaped nodules. High quality flint inside too:
And finally, a couple of leavings by the Amerinds. A razor sharp discoidal scraper and a huge core or sharpened flint hunk probably used as a chopper or maybe just the left over hunk after smaller preforms were knocked off it.