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A few years ago I was lucky to get my hands on a lot of this high grade Kentucky hornstone. I enjoyed knapping a lot of it but saved some to come back to from time to time. Not all hornstone is the same: This is the good stuff.
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Last edited by Ron Kelley; 06-22-2020, 01:24 PM.Michigan Yooper
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I've knapped the lower grade hornstones, but that looks at least tn grades above mine! Beautiful rock, nice work."The education of a man is never completed until he dies." Robert E. Lee -
Nice one Ron. Good looking pointSW ConnecticutComment
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Nice point. Looks like higher grade than any I see, Having said that, I still love the tools I find made of any grade of hornstone. To me, it's a beautiful lithic. Creamy and usually has great crisp flaking.Central OhioComment
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Not the typical Hornstone I’m used to finding. Really nice material. Any idea what location this grade came from Ron?..Very nice and thanks for sharing!North Central KentuckyComment
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Love the flaking pattern and finish on that flint....Floridaboy.Comment
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Very Cool Ron , that rock almost looks like black agate .WyomingComment
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Great job on some cool lithics. I have found 1 un broken black point over the years. Have had trouble on IDing the lithics. Will have to post it and see what all think.SE IAComment
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Great looking flaking and material. Hornstone is great stuff. I'm partial to some of the bluer flavors in Southern Indiana/Northern Kentucky, but the darker ones from Ky are also great.
"Any color you want as long as it's black" is a relatively famous quote attributed to Henry Ford, because it referred to exactly one shade of black.
In the case of Hornstone you can have "Any color you want as long as it's grey" and still actually get some really cool color combinations depending on the location and the geology.Hong Kong, but from Indiana/FloridaComment
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At the time I bought 200 pounds of nodules of this high grade Hornstone. They just look like field rocks.
Michigan Yooper
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That's something to see. There are some huge rocks down the road someone dug up that has the tan cortex I bet they are chert but you would have to have a crane just to move one. Nice post RonNW Georgia,Comment
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