Jan 17, 2015 · 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. …

Mar 11, 2023 · Found this in a cornfield its hematite. I thought maybe it was an awl or something

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.

Dec 30, 2012 · 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.

Mar 12, 2025 · 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 …

Nov 18, 2015 · 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.

May 13, 2024 · 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 …

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 …

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 …

Dec 5, 2013 · 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 …