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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
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
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
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
Hematite celt from VA - ArrowHeads. com Just received from a great friend and VA collector for Christmas, hematite celt from the burial triangle site in greensville County VA recovered in the 1960s from next to a gas station known as uncle odies off of 58!
Cones and Triangles etc - ArrowHeads. com Although there are precedents for Native Americans in some areas producing “conestones” (with either ritual or gaming usage), they are normally a rather more shallow domed form which does not have the typical shape of deburring media and are normally made from more attractive stones including (notably) hematite