Translucent Thursday

[CreekSide]

Anyone can share a point or tool. I’m sure we all have found something that is transparent or translucent.

 

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[CreekSide]

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Beautiful point

 

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[CreekSide]

Something to look at

 

[Hellbilly]

Here are a few of mine.

 

[CreekSide]

Here are a few of mine.

Very nice especially the last one

 

[newnan man]

 

[Hellbilly]

Very nice especially the last one

Thank you, That one is a special one to me. Its transitional paleo Fla. Simson made from Fla. Agate gem stone. The line across it is not a break just an inclusion in the stone.

 

[Hellbilly]

Here is another unlit and lit

 

[CreekSide]

Here is another unlit and lit

Some killer finds

 

[southfork]

Personal find N. California

 

[newnan man]

Personal find N. California

The variety of materials you find on your site is something else. I like the clear crystal ones the best.

 

[southfork]

Crystal is always a magical find Northern California personal find.

 

[newnan man]

Crystal is always a magical find Northern California personal find.

I've found a broken milky quartz point, that one is unreal.

 

[unclemac]

got a few...

 

[CreekSide]

got a few...
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Blue is rare in my area. Very unique

 

[southfork]

got a few...
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Wow I wish we had Blue Chalcedony nice point.

 

[unclemac]

it is my friends, Ellensburg blue, gem quality too! If you know the stone, you know it is found in one isolated spot!

 

[opalboy]

Here’s some wood from a private quarry in Colorado.

 

[CreekSide]

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Beautiful

 

[dognose]

 

[11KBP]

Quartz Crystal Pendant - NEBRASKA

My dad and I were hunting sites in southwestern Nebraska in the 1960’s when my dad found this small pendant. The site was along the Republican River and is considered an Upper Republican phase site. The Upper Republican phase is part of the Central Plains tradition and has been dated via radiocarbon techniques to A.D. 1100 to 1350.
(Macy, J. N., Plains Anthropologist, Nov. 2009)

When this piece was found we assumed it was made of modern glass because it was so clear. Since I wanted to know for sure what the pendant was made from I eventually took the piece to the University of Nebraska and showed it to Roger Pabian, a geologist professor who I was acquainted with. Using a gemologist’s refractometer Roger was able to quickly verify that the pendant was indeed made of knapped crystal quartz, a material we seldom see out here in the Central Great Plains.