Post by Sabre52 on Oct 4, 2011 19:04:26 GMT -5
Howdy folks,
Was out this afternoon hunting fossil specimens for a case I have to set up for a function my wife is going to, so I took a hike up to the old Amerind flint quarry on the hill I call Root Beer Hill. I've given it that name because of the fine translucent brown flint found in abundance at that location. Knappers often call this root beer flint.. Lots of cool fossils and pseudomorphs but of course I had to drag home a few more nodules for my flint pile. Here are a couple of pics.....Mel
The little pile. Mostly bands and bulls eye patterns:
Close up of one that has some neat bands that remind me a bit of polish flint:
My favorite fossil from the hill, Gastropod is about 1 1/2" long and replaced by silica that has been etched away from the surrounding limestone. Broken shell on upper left is a sparkly geode.
Was out this afternoon hunting fossil specimens for a case I have to set up for a function my wife is going to, so I took a hike up to the old Amerind flint quarry on the hill I call Root Beer Hill. I've given it that name because of the fine translucent brown flint found in abundance at that location. Knappers often call this root beer flint.. Lots of cool fossils and pseudomorphs but of course I had to drag home a few more nodules for my flint pile. Here are a couple of pics.....Mel
The little pile. Mostly bands and bulls eye patterns:
Close up of one that has some neat bands that remind me a bit of polish flint:
My favorite fossil from the hill, Gastropod is about 1 1/2" long and replaced by silica that has been etched away from the surrounding limestone. Broken shell on upper left is a sparkly geode.
