Not really off the wall..but a nice find I wanted

[Jeffery Howle]

Its a french gun flint...I found it in same local as many of my points..I found out recently what it was for sure. Knew it was a gun flint but not sure when it was from. :cheer:


Hope you enjoy the share

[Jeffery Howle]

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Thanks Jack

[gregszybala]

Nice find, would love to stumble across one of those.

[SDhunter]

It is a nice find.  I might have found a couple of them,  but I'm never sure if its a gun flint or a scraper. 
Gary

[Jeffery Howle]

SDhunter wrote:

It is a nice find.  I might have found a couple of them,  but I'm never sure if its a gun flint or a scraper. 
Gary

  IMO scrapers are never this small...but I'm so uneducated on NA artifacts ...so take it as you will

[rmartin]

That is really cool Jeffery! I have never found one.

[11KBP]

Jeffery Howle wrote:

Its a french gun flint...I found it in same local as many of my points.

  Nice gun flint Jeffery.  I found three of those very close together
in a field one day and assumed they were lost as a group.

[CMD]

Those are always nice to find. I have a few, but no French, just English and native. Congrats!

[tomclark]

Great find there, Jeff! :woohoo:   I've also only found British (dark-grey to blackish chert) and native material (chert/coral) gunflints in my area.  The butterscotchy-waxy one are Frenchies.  It's interesting to google gunflints and see how they were/are making them.  I have to go back and view the size of yours, some where made for pistols and small caliber firearms and were smaller.
NA scrapers were indeed made as small as that.  I have plenty.  When they are that small they can also be called microliths or microlithic tools.

[SDhunter]

I've got some very tiny thumb scrapers,  that I know are just that,  that will sit on my pinky nail, with room left over.  The flints I guess are a little more square it looks like.   Not sure why the scrapers were made that small,  but there must have been a reason.  I suppose some have been re sharpened down to a small size.       Gary

[Chakotay]

Very nice find Jeffery!!!

[CMD]

SDhunter wrote:

I've got some very tiny thumb scrapers,  that I know are just that,  that will sit on my pinky nail, with room left over.  The flints I guess are a little more square it looks like.   Not sure why the scrapers were made that small,  but there must have been a reason.  I suppose some have been re sharpened down to a small size.       Gary

  Gary, sometimes they were fitted into a shaft notched along its' length, and not used individually, so each scraper was just one of several-many.