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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: bjrogg on May 12, 2016, 04:09:36 pm

Title: Another farm fresh point
Post by: bjrogg on May 12, 2016, 04:09:36 pm
Pick up a stone from my field yesterday. I kind of like this stuff but it usually is to small or has to many inclusions. I managed to get a pretty nice point out of this one. There always a little more special to me when I find the stone on my farm. :)
Title: Re: Another farm fresh point
Post by: le0n on May 12, 2016, 05:48:03 pm
wow. i like that rock.

not that the point needed it, but those fossils are neat.
Title: Re: Another farm fresh point
Post by: bjrogg on May 12, 2016, 06:02:08 pm
They don't make it any easier to work, half the time I'd be better off getting rid of them but I do like when it works out to keep em. Don't know if you can see it but the one in the center has sparkly crystals in it. :o
Title: Re: Another farm fresh point
Post by: Tom W on May 12, 2016, 06:23:37 pm
Nice looking point and material. What is it?
Title: Re: Another farm fresh point
Post by: bjrogg on May 12, 2016, 06:28:11 pm
I really don't know name it's just knapable stone I find on my farm. Usually just pebble chert size pieces got lucky yesterday found a couple I might be able to do something with.
Title: Re: Another farm fresh point
Post by: Zuma on May 12, 2016, 09:15:55 pm
Ok, OK
Send all that nasty stuff to
Zuma po box xxxxxx.
Thank you BJ
Very  8)
Title: Re: Another farm fresh point
Post by: bjrogg on May 12, 2016, 10:44:43 pm
Funny thing Zuma I've been picking up rocks from our fields since I was a little kid. Wish they all were like that one but I'm sure I put more than a few on the stone piles over the years.
Title: Re: Another farm fresh point
Post by: Zuma on May 13, 2016, 06:40:05 am
Some of your rocks could be glacial till left there from
the last ice sheet. Stuff that came from further north of
your farm??
Zuma
Title: Re: Another farm fresh point
Post by: Parnell on May 13, 2016, 07:38:34 am
Very cool looking inclusion.
Title: Re: Another farm fresh point
Post by: bjrogg on May 13, 2016, 08:10:29 am
Yes Zuma I'm quite sure most of our rocks on or just below maybe several feet below surface are from the glaciers. There are limestone and shale layers as bedrock in some places but I agree most of our rock came from our northern neighbor Canada.
PS Indiana , Iowa got our top soil but we still have a good subsoil