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Date: | Fri, 16 Oct 1998 10:14:18 -0700 |
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<Kim Zawacki> wrote:
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> A client of ours recently inquired about his theory that Virginians turned to
> local sources for gunflints during the Revolution. I have always understood
> that both the Americans and the British preferred French gunflints, and, given
> the number of French flints we have found on Revolutionary-era sites, I find
> it difficult to believe that their supply was curtailed during the war, as he
> insists.
>
> Can anyone tell us (before he calls back!) (a) whether Virginia chert was even
> suitable for gunflints, and (b) whether there was any sort of organized local
> production/distribution of it during the war.
>
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).
--
Steve Boxley, Ja.T., M.N.
The Virginia Foundation for Archaeological Research, Inc.
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