Flint core?

[Siwash]

Is this piece of flint something that someone once picked up and hacked out useful rock? Most of it has the natural outer covering, but there are hacks and chip outs and I'm wondering if this was the source for arrowhead flint.

 

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[ToddsPoint]

That looks like a real mean piece of quartz. I can tell you where the source of local flint is in your county. It's called Utica banded flint. Go to Utica. Walk west along the barge canal.(drive if the gate is open) Go past the mine openings. You'll come to a creek that comes in from the bluff. The outcrop is on the top edge of the bluff, east side of creek. You can see where the Indians quarried it as the bluff is cut back a ways at the top edge. Gary

 

[dirstscratcher]

Looks like a flint nodule that has had a side knocked off. Hard to tell if they got anything beyond possibly a scraper or two. The rest of it is the cortex material that it eroded out of, my guess is limestone.

 

[Bigdob]

That looks like a real mean piece of quartz. I can tell you where the source of local flint is in your county. It's called Utica banded flint. Go to Utica. Walk west along the barge canal.(drive if the gate is open) Go past the mine openings. You'll come to a creek that comes in from the bluff. The outcrop is on the top edge of the bluff, east side of creek. You can see where the Indians quarried it as the bluff is cut back a ways at the top edge. Gary

How far of a walk is this?
I go up to Utica occasionally and would like to check this out
BD

 

[Siwash]

Is this piece of flint something that someone once picked up and hacked out useful rock? Most of it has the natural outer covering, but there are hacks and chip outs and I'm wondering if this was the source for arrowhead flint.




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I think I tromped around there looking to see if I could find remains of an old mill site, just historically curious.

 

[ToddsPoint]

How far of a walk is this?
I go up to Utica occasionally and would like to check this out
BD

I was with an archaeologist and we found a ranger that had the key to the gate and we drove back there. I don't think it was more than a mile though. It's a really neat spot with the old abandoned canal next to the river. Gary