That and 103 in the shade at 7:30.
They may do another one in August so when David Calame calls I'll post the date,
Oh Yeah, August will be a lot better
Were they able to determine if the Indian made gun flint was for his own weapon,,,or he was cranking them out for trade to the colonists ??
So what IS the bottom line for the side notched....??
An excentric ? accidental slip of the knapper ? Signature ( so he could find his own in a bucket of other Perdiz ? )
OR ...a completely brand NEW type that will have it's own page in the next issue of Ovrsts ?
The PERUACANAZ sounds formidable !
That was never answered in full. The Edwards was hafted notched, the Perdiz, his best guess was an eccentric. I showed it to Perino back in the late 80's and he labled it token notched. Hester, via email called it a hafting notch but after seeing it in person at Hondo and he and Calame said it was an intentional notch but not for hafting. I agree that it's not for hafting, it would un-balance the point if just on one side.
On the gun flint, I found two plus the Perdiz at the same time and locale. The only thing I could think of was that was north of the old Fort Ewel site on the Nueces River in deep LaSalle county. A possible transition for bow and arrow to black powder rifle? Mabbe the last arrowpoint made by the Indians before switching to guns?
Have been going to post my gun flint I found while surface hunting at Chrisners finally got good pics. Looks lot like yours am told buy several people in the gun business that when a indian broke the flint in his flint lock he would knap one out since that was his way of life and they are Rare I am told.
Good one. There was such a proven heavy consentration of ancient peoples in the C3 area there must be more
gun flints to be found as they transitioned from bow & arrow to guns.
Maybe people have already found some and dont realise what they are.
I just wonder how many more are in people's collections or junk point buckets and they think they're just worn out thumb scrapers. You don't see much in any of the books about them so it's hard to get any reference points to verify that they are true gun flints. A true good find.