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Category Archives: Flintknapper
Example Of Novaculite And Onondaga Chert Flakes
Posted in Chert, Flakes, Flintknapper, Flintknapping, Geology, Knapping Material, Percussion Flaking, Rocks and Minerals
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Flint from Letchworth Stone Tool Show 2011
Picked up some nice flint from the Letchworth Stone Tool Show this past weekend
Posted in Chert, Cobble, Flakes, Flint, Flintknapper, Flintknapping, Geology, Knapping Material, Percussion Flaking, Pressure Flaker, Pressure Flaking, Primitive Living, Raw Materials, Rocks and Minerals, Spall
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Novaculite Flakes For Arrowheads
I have knocked several flakes and blades off a Novaculite core. These will eventually become the arrowheads on my new arrows.
Posted in Arrow Making, Flakes, Flintknapper, Flintknapping, Knapping Material, Novaculite, Raw Materials
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A Piece Of Niobrara Chert Flint In Chalk
This is a piece of Niobrara Chert in a chalky covering.
Posted in Chalk, Chert, Cobble, Flint, Flintknapper, Flintknapping, Geology, Knapping Material, Nodule, Raw Materials, Rocks and Minerals
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California Obsidian
A chunk of black obsidian from California.
Posted in Flintknapper, Flintknapping, Knapping Material, Obsidian, Raw Materials
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Hammerstone For Flintknapping
This is an example of a hammerstone used in flintknapping to break off spalls from a larger piece of rock material so that it may further be reduced in thickness and shaped into a tool/projectile point. The hammerstone is usually made from … Continue reading
Posted in Flintknapper, Flintknapping, Flintknapping Kit, Geology
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Indiana Hornstone
Indiana Hornstone has a nice gey-blue colour with concentric rings within the material.
Posted in Chert, Cobble, Flakes, Flint, Flintknapper, Flintknapping, Knapping Material, Nodule
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Texas Flint Spalls
A variety of Texas Flint Spalls, showing the lighter color flint on the edges and the darker in the center of the nodules they came from.
Posted in Chalk, Chert, Cobble, Flint, Flintknapper, Flintknapping, Geology, Knapping Material, Nodule, Region, Rocks and Minerals, Spall, USA
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British Flint Nodules
Various nodules of British Flint. The flint within the nodules is covered in a layer of chalk.
Posted in Chalk, Cobble, Flint, Flintknapper, Flintknapping, Geology, Knapping Material, Nodule, Region, UK
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Dacite Spall
A nice grey waxy spall of Dacite
Posted in Dacite, Flintknapper, Flintknapping, Geology, Knapping Material, Spall
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