Steve Boxley wrote:
 
>Here at our site in Poquoson we have found one well used jasper
>gunflint.  It is out of plowzone context so is not dateable.  Our site is
>mostly 17th and 18th century, but we do have one Revolutionary War
>button (82nd Regiment of Foot that interned at Yorktown).
 
Local gunflint manufacture in North America (either by Aboriginals or
Europeans), particularly using
cherts and other native lithics, is something I've been interested in for
quite some time, so if you'll allow me a
few questions...
 
Are you sure it's a gunflint rather than a scraper? What method of
manufacture / reduction was used to shape
and sharpen it? Is it some sort of heavily retouched flake? Sorry for the
barrage of questions -- I'm just curious.
 
Cheers,
 
John Guilfoyle
Archaeologist, Parks Canada