- Hematite - ArrowHeads. com
Hematite certainly occurs in Kentucky, but the major source for many hematite artefacts in east south-central parts of the States was the Iron Mountain region of SE Missouri Hematite the mineral is essentially non-magnetic but often exhibits weak attraction to powerful rare-earth magnets or industrial-strength electromagnets
- Hematite Awl ? Found in Cornfield - ArrowHeads. com
Found this in a cornfield its hematite I thought maybe it was an awl or something
- Chunkey Stones (Roller Discoidals) - ArrowHeads. com
One rare type of hematite, from Mississippi County, Arkansas was relief carved on one side (figure 3 ) Gamestones are made of diorite, green-stone, hematite, quartzite, limestone and flint
- cones - ArrowHeads. com
what did native Indians use cones for? I have found some just like I have seen on other sites and basalt isn't a common rock here
- Texas Hematite Celt - ArrowHeads. com
This hematite celt was found by a TX Cache subscriber many years ago in Stephens County, TX Hematite is a rare material for Texas artifacts so I am fairly clueless about this piece
- Sharpening stone - ArrowHeads. com
All kinds of uses for powdered hematite mixed with fat, such as bodily decoration (including hair), staining of leather, wooden, bone, and porous stone artefacts to name a few
- Axe head or hand axe? Or any other ideas? - ArrowHeads. com
On the site, I have found many points, filled multiple mason jars with debitage, a broken axe head, abraders, rubbed hematite, and a few nutting stones I don't know what kind of stone but it's not similar to the chert points I've been finding and seems less grainy than the nutting stones I've found The thickness of this piece is pretty uniform
- I have some strange hemetite I could use help with
Agree It doesn't look like hematite to me either It looks more like sandstone as far as can be said from those pictures You can check by streaking it on the back (unglazed) side of an old ceramic tile if you have any left over from redecoration work Hematite will streak red or red-brown Incidentally, it doesn't look like an artefact either
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