A few you might help with

[Brandiwine]

Ok...so life doesn't afford me much time for getting pieces out, taking photos, etc. (any free time I spend looking as the thrill is in the hunt).
So I'll start with the ones I need help with and post the nicer points when I have some more time (hopefully kids will have snow day tomorrow and I can play with my rocks....




These next ones I wouldn't think much about - but have 15 or so of the same shape, finger indents, flat bottom and one short flat side

 

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[Brandiwine]

And in learning to post I thought the "inline" woyld show at the bottom where the other pics are instead of pulling that piece to the top. Sorry

 

[Brandiwine]

Weird one. I thought it was some old cement, but not in the middle of a field...and have several - all with a smooth flat side that's almost polished its so smooth

 

[Brandiwine]

The one point I hadn't put up with the rest is like a turquoise. Also found a stash of an eclectic selection of chert, marine like rock, turquoise, quartz, etc. All together, with about 25 more pieces as well

 

[Tnmountains]

The next to last and the 4th from last may be cores that were possibly knapped a little on to test.
I am not seeing artifacts though but some cool looking natural rocks. Looks like you have the passion for it and you are in a good area of the country for finding stuff.
Good luck

 

[rock]

Maybe one hammer stone the white one or could be a test rock or core. Most are just field rocks hit by the plow. It took me about a month of study when I first started looking in the field to tell the difference of a worked piece and a plow piece. The break is very different. If it has been altered by man there is a bulb of percussion and then like a wave action in the stone, it looks like ripples in the water when you throw a rock. If the plow hit it there is no bulb and probably a flat scrap looking spot and no secondary flaking. It is hard to describe it in writing but take one that you know is a artifact and compare it to these and you will see the difference.

 

[larson1951]

hey hey brandi
you have quite an assortment of material
the 2nd group of pictures items in the 1rst, 10th, and 15th images appear to be cores which flakes have been struck to be used for making tools
i don't know what kind of material they are but that white colored stuff looks like it would be nice to work with
if i would go hunting in the place you go i would look for smaller pieces of that white material and you could very well find a point or drill or knife
i would like to see a different view of the piece at the 8th image

 

[Brandiwine]

That's the thing....the assortment of material. The large percentage of actual points found around the area are what most around here call black kanawha flint. An occasional white or grey flint. The fields I look in when I just go for a "walk out the back door" hunt have produced amazing pieces --- most found by my father and his friends when they were kids back in the 60's. They were lucky enough to follow plows when the land was used for ag. Now, they're just horse fields and I rely on yucky weather and those hooves to tear down a bank or create a muddy mess. I've found a couple nice points there (ill try to dig out some decent pieces today) but I think they were lucky enough to find most surface stuff years ago.
The reason I posted most of these is because I found it quite odd to find an assortment of non-native stone like this. And all in the same place. Of course my pics weren't so great either. And a few I should have known better, but the rock hound in me wont let me pass by anything halfway cool looking.

Thanks for taking the time...now it's time to go sort through the buckets. My stash isn't cool enough for display and other than showing something to my family I just stash them in a bucket and wait for a nice day to clean and sort through. Which of course hasn't happened in a while....come on spring! Here are some photos...weird one, never seen anything like it...petrified wood, but only found among slate/coal seem and very dark.

 

[rock]

Tnet does have a rock forum just in case you didnt know that. I like rocks and artifacts. After all they were rocks before they were artifacts. I use the rock forum at times. They have some good people in that part and will tell you what your rock types are.

 

[NC field hunter]

Weird one. I thought it was some old cement, but not in the middle of a field...and have several - all with a smooth flat side that's almost polished its so smooth
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I'm not sure what part of the country you live in, but here in NC it's not uncommon to find old cement, or rather, "dobbing""as us country folk call it, in a field. Old tobacco barns would get demolished as time brought its modern bulk barns in. Dobbing often looks the way it sounds. Like mud and pea gravel mixed and dried. It's normally thin, the thickness of the gap in between barn logs.