Went for a 3 hour stroll along Talacre beach yesterday, good exercise for the thighs walking on the beach and I also found a nodule of chert the second reasonable piece I have found in the area.
I just hope this one breaks better than the last one did.
Last edited by Valantine; 26-04-2014 at 12:29 PM.
Alan
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.(Benjamin Franklin)
Sweet!
I've had a tough time for awhile finding anything that will produce decent flakes...fortunately, I have a friend who is a geologist, and he pointed me out to the things to look for. Crystalline quartz is fairly uncommon here but flakes really well, same with chert. Finding good quartzite can be tough sometimes, as all the nice pieces are usually too small for much use.
The key is to find out what the Natives used and go from there - he has collected some fine examples of quartzite arrowheads used by the Mahican tribal folk who previously inhabited the area.
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Alan
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.(Benjamin Franklin)
will have to go have a mooch and find a decent peice
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar, I love not man the less, but Nature more.
Indeed - books can't tell you everything.Originally Posted by Valantine
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"Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."
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