Heat treated coral

[newnan man]

A few brokes that I found in the 80's. If whole, they would have been beautiful points. Heat treated material, Coral. A spiral shell inclusion at the break actually has tiny crystals in it.

 

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[dognose]

nice, bummer being broke.

 

[Relicgrubber]

I really like that material Nman. I have always liked Deep South Artifacts. If they weren’t so expensive I would have more than the one Frame that I do have buried somewhere in my rathole

 

[ToddsPoint]

I’ve knapped a little bit of coral. Some of it is really colorful when heated. Once heated, it’s easy to knap. I got some nodules right out of the gulf on Honeymoon Island. It’s dark blue/black colored. I was told the sea water turns it dark blue. I’m not sure if that’s true. This is from Honeymoon.

 

[newnan man]

I've got several chunks of heat treated coral that I found in Pasco County. They have already been worked over and what I found were pieces not suitable for knapping. A lot of rind but great colors on the coral still attached.

 

[Taranis]

Broken, but still really interesting to see the detail, especially the crystals in the shell.

 

[CreekSide]

Nice fossil inclusion

 

[Older The Better]

Interesting makes me wonder why there isn’t fossil coral here in Kansas, the surface rocks around here were from a shallow sea and range anywhere from deep water to on shore deposits, you’d think there would be a coral in there somewhere