Gotta Love Skunk Flint!

[rock]

Well I went out today and found a few. 4 hours hunting and 3 hours cleaning and checking every piece and sorting them. Sure is more fun finding them . No points though just scrapers, knifes, cores, hammer stones and of course brokes and flakes. Still had fun!
The last pic shows some of this months finds. I have another tub not in that pic. My chip and broke jar is filling up quick.

 

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[Tnmountains]

Nice Rock. Is that black piece in your 4th picture flat on the bottom? Niece pieces and a good day to be out.

 

[rock]

yes its flat. The next to last I believe is a hammer. If not then a core. The Tan one I think is a round nose knife, would of been hafted on the pointy end. There are some other nice tools in that mix but I couldnt get good pics of them due to the black shinny color of the stone. Most I find out there has a shaft scraper built into them. Found these in a new spot by the creek. Got me a new camp to explore.

 

[Tnmountains]

yes its flat. The next to last I believe is a hammer. If not then a core. The Tan one I think is a round nose knife, would of been hafted on the pointy end. There are some other nice tools in that mix but I couldnt get good pics of them due to the black shinny color of the stone. Most I find out there has a shaft scraper built into them. Found these in a new spot by the creek. Got me a new camp to explore.

You were talking about "like" tools from different areas. Want to see one almost just like yours?

 

[larson1951]

3rd image-nice scraper

 

[rock]

You were talking about "like" tools from different areas. Want to see one almost just like yours?

YES!

 

[rock]

3rd image-nice scraper

That one was showing about a quarter of an inch through the clay. I had a flipping stick but earlier in the day I was looking at the ditch they dug and used it to lean over so I could see the bottom and it broke in the middle and I almost fell in! It would of been a 20 ft fall if I had fell into it. I grabbed a tree before I fell. Anyway so I had to use my back up to pop it. I use a flat head screwdriver. You have to go slow as to not chip or break them. It popped rite out and I was really shocked as the size was quite large. It is a round nosed knife. I dont find them too often and it was a good score.

 

[Tnmountains]

YES!

I call em hump back scrapers. Similiar?

 

[GatorBoy]

That's what I call them too. Nice find Rock.

 

[rock]

Looks real close even the same type of stone. Is yours flat on the back? Mine has the shape of a foot almost. But I know it isnt a foot. lol

 

[Tnmountains]

Yep sure is. They are an easy item to miss that is for sure. Has that little extra work along the base that gives it away. Pouring the rain here,,,,

 

[rock]

Cool then it is a humpback scraper then. I would of missed it the way it was laying in the leaves if I didnt pick up every piece that lays around. It looked just like a rock. Yours is much finer defined as to the secondary flaking. Mine looks resharpened to a nub and they probably just threw it away. I did want to ask if there is anyway to know when Humpback scrapers were used as to the period? I think I read where they were more of a early tool?

 

[larson1951]

That one was showing about a quarter of an inch through the clay. I had a flipping stick but earlier in the day I was looking at the ditch they dug and used it to lean over so I could see the bottom and it broke in the middle and I almost fell in! It would of been a 20 ft fall if I had fell into it. I grabbed a tree before I fell. Anyway so I had to use my back up to pop it. I use a flat head screwdriver. You have to go slow as to not chip or break them. It popped rite out and I was really shocked as the size was quite large. It is a round nosed knife. I dont find them too often and it was a good score.

gotta go get some elmers glue and put your stick back together

 

[rock]

LOL thanks Larson. I will be on the lookout for a new one in the woods. I will have to take my camera next time I am out there so you guys can see that ditch. I dont know who made it but it is 20 ft deep in some places. It goes all the way to the creek and runs about a mile to the field across the street where I dont have permission to hunt. Too bad cause it might be a ancient run off for farming. So the water would leave the field but I dont know. Strange and I dont see where they put the dirt unless they used it where the house is built on a cool looking hill across the street. Again where I dont have permission to be......yet!