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It looks like muldraugh chert to me.TN formerly CT Visit our store http://stores.arrowheads.com/store.p...m-Trading-Post
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I’m in central Indiana too, and have found a little pieces of stuff that looks like that before around my property by a creek. If it’s the same stuff, I wondered if it was agate because it’s got a glossy, small crystal grain, and parts of it are transparent. I don’t know my cherts very well though.
Chert ID is tricky for me, since there are so many varieties that overlap and each one can come in a range of colors and patterns. But it seems there are a few varieties that dominate each area. Have you identified any of the other common cherts around here, Sparks?
There’s one type I see pretty commonly around waterways, often see pieces of something that at one point were worked into sort of a thick hoe, preform, or hand axe shape, and usually don’t seem to preserve well, but are brown, fine-grained, continuous boring color, but usually more chalky than super glossy. it must’ve been an important material, and seems fairly common, though I’ve never found a biface out of it so maybe it has limitations. Have you seen anything like that? Any idea what it is?Last edited by BoilerMike; 08-28-2023, 02:26 PM.Central Indiana
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Hay Sparks I found a piece of that last month in Bloomington. I posted it and this is what gregzybola said "The spotted piece is probably Harrodsburg". Mine looks just like what you found.
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