Worked glass, or a lucky break?

[GTK96]

I literally have no idea, but Im leaning towards worked glass...weird thing is it's shape, looks like the gunflints I find...thoughts??

 

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[GatorBoy]

Crazy how much responce that little piece is getting... I still don't see it being bottle glass. Those "black" glass bottles are really a dark olive green or sometimes amber. Here is some worked glass.

 

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[NC field hunter]

The gunflint shaped glass is more than likely an end scraper utilized for the scraping of hides. I have found similar objects on contact period sites up here in Manitoba. The natives quickly realized that very good scrapers (and projectile points) could be easily fashioned from bottle glass and wasted little time putting this into practice. Bottle glass will not spark in a flintlock mechanism.

Exactly. Thank you for the backing. I'm no genius, however, I know better than to use glass for a spark. Might end up one eyed Jack. When I was a kid, we killed hogs for sausage. We had to use scrapers. We used the old lid to a Mason jar. The ones that had porcelain for a lining.