I walked over to checkout a well worn baseball lying on gravelly soil with no other vegitation. .



I had not seen anything quite like it before, seems like a fungus spore, with roots.
Using it for scale, it doesnt do proper justice to the impact fractured HARDIN. A real find for me, from deep in the red where the occasional Martindales have been comming from.



Nice insitu of a ?



Only a broken tipped lanceolate. Still a nice scare.



Needed a good scale for the find of the day. . . checkout whatever variety of ants made this "nest ".
They sure went to a lot of effort to keep their front door area swept clean !
Flint is a needle pointed SAN GABRIEL blade [ rare for me to find a largeish blade with that sharp a tip ]



Impossible to catch in a pic but the entire edges of the blade is about the sharpest
I have ever seen, truely comparable to the modern day pocket knife !



Certainly sharper than my red insitu knife that wouldnt cut butter !

SH, your baseball is a Pisolithus tinctorius,( earthball fungus) not edible but used as a source of black and brown dyes by both Amerindians and early settlers. No doubt you could still skin a deer with that knife blade.

Hal, Interesting Fungi-Gameball & nice artifacts, that blade was nice. JF

Hey better idea send it to Jacob h and he could paint some overhangs with it lol. Also NICE BLADE, San Gabriela are hard to come by with a pointy tip like that I'm told.

Hal, I think we called them stink balls where I grew up in Washington State.
Now, that San Gabriel, we'd call that, real sweet.
Happy Hunting. AL.C

Nice blade there SH. That joker has a great tip on it. Learned something new today. Now if only I could pronounce the name of the fungus I would be ok.