Is this fired chert?

Bobby Linton · Feb 25, 2018

I have been trying to find a point and it's taking a while. Just like to know if I'm barking up the correct tree. My wife and I went walking this morning on a tall sandy bluff over the Ogeechee River. It's is a beautiful area. I can only imagine it was a village at one time. I can find a lot of these chips. It looks like the edges are worked. Is this chert? Very sharp. Found one that looks like a perfect base to a point. All the rock looks like the pic. Thanks.

Nicodemus · Feb 25, 2018

It`s Coastal Plains chert with a heavy field patina on it. Doesn`t look to be heat treated nor worked. It does look like a debitage flake.

Bobby Linton · Feb 25, 2018

Thanks! I'll keep looking. Either way it's time well wasted.

Nicodemus · Feb 25, 2018

If you`re finding a lot of chips and fragments, you`re in a knapping area. Keep looking anywhere you can see the dirt all through the area and you`re apt to find some artifacts.

Good luck.

Mexican Squealer · Feb 25, 2018

I'd start a dig site where you find a bunch of flakes

Bobby Linton · Feb 25, 2018

Also picked up this oyster shaped stone that feels like a scrapper, but it has no tooling marks. Very smooth. Probably nothing but it caught my eye.

Willjo · Feb 25, 2018

All arrowheads were not made from heat treated chert, some of the Savannah River points and several style points were not heated. Raw chert is stronger than heat treated chert even though the heated pieces are easier to knap. where there is flakes most likely there will be points.

Donal · Feb 26, 2018

looks like a petrified mussel.

Bobby Linton · Feb 26, 2018

Donal said:
looks like a petrified mussel.

Probably so. We were picking up oyster shell half's that looked like they were eaten last week.

Bobby Linton · Feb 26, 2018

Mexican Squealer said:
I'd start a dig site where you find a bunch of flakes

What you said reminded me of a question I have. I own two small tracks of land in Bullock County totalling about 20 acres. One is 325' above sea level. Some of the first high ground moving in from the coast. I could dig it to China if it suits me, but how deep would I want to look? If habitation in this area has been 10-12 thousand years, what depth does that time frame represent in undisturbed soil. I really don't know if we are talking about the first 10" or 10'. I would assume once you hit fossils from the ocean you are too deep.

Mexican Squealer · Feb 26, 2018

Got to find the level. Start shallow. Probably don't have to go too deep if finding stuff on the surface. You will often find signs of campfires in the side walls of your holes.

Bobby Linton · Feb 26, 2018

Find a lot of this rock as well. Looks shinny in the sun compared to the chert. Quarts maybe? There is very little rock here in the soil at all.

mamatried · Feb 26, 2018

that oyster shaped stone looks like a fossilized foram.

NCHillbilly · Feb 26, 2018

mamatried said:
that oyster shaped stone looks like a fossilized foram.

Yep, or an otolith (fish ear bone.) I would guess that it is a fossil of some sort instead of a manufactured artifact.

Bobby Linton · Feb 26, 2018

After the rain this morning. Really don't know if the pottery pieces are modern or not. Thin white pottery with faint blue pattern. Could just be trash but a Gopher turtle kicked all this up.

NCHillbilly · Feb 26, 2018

Pottery is modern. A couple of those pieces of quartz look like flakes.

Bobby Linton · Feb 26, 2018

Thanks. Looked more like ceramic to me than pottery. Just didn't know. I chunked it and put the flakes in my almost shoe box. One day I'm going to find a great point and jump around like I killed a 12 point. I will keep looking.

shotgunhales · Feb 26, 2018

might want to metal detect in that area too. that china with the blue in it is from civil war era

Son · Feb 26, 2018

Man made flakes will have a percussion bulb on one end.

Son · Feb 26, 2018

Good luck, found this Bolen the wild pigs rooted up last week. Miller Co. Ga.

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