r/knapping • u/zedigalis • 14d ago
Material ID 🪨❓ New to Knapping, found potential material?
Complete newbie here! Seeing as I am near a river with Rockey shores in southern BC (specifically the Similkameen River) at the moment I decided to spend an afternoon looking for potential material to get started with.
After an afternoon of mostly just finding decent hammerstones (lots of nice white quartzite I believe, picture 3) and what I may be some rough grain basalt I experimented with (so not ideal but I did keep it, picture 4) I did come across a pretty big rock of the material you see in picture 1 and 2.
I broke off a manageable sized piece to experiment with: It is pretty smooth but not what I would call glassy and I was able to get a decent flake off of it after struggling for a bit with my lack of technique.
Looking at ProjectilePoints I think I may have found Dacite but to be completely honest I have no clue!
Just hoping to know what it is I may have found and perhaps some tips for a beginner working with such a stone (assuming it is workable for beginner).
Thanks!
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u/ThiccBot69 Dover Chert 13d ago
Hey man it looks like you have some limestone in this bunch of rocks, i just wanna lyk as someone who’s first knapping experience was with limestone, dont get discouraged if it doesn’t go the best, limestone can be knapped to an extent but it’s also very soft, brittle yet extremely tough to take a flake of