Hematite certainly occurs in Kentucky, but the major source for many hematite artefacts in east south-central parts of the States was the Iron Mountain region of SE Missouri. Hematite the mineral is essentially non-magnetic but often exhibits weak attraction to powerful rare-earth magnets or industrial-strength electromagnets.

A few are described as "circle roller" types because one side is a larger diameter causing it to roll in a circle as it comes to rest. One rare type of hematite, from Mississippi County, Arkansas was relief carved on one side (figure 3 ). Gamestones are made of diorite, green-stone, hematite, quartzite, limestone and flint.

Mar 11, 2023 · Found this in a cornfield its hematite. I thought maybe it was an awl or something

Dec 30, 2012 · Native items referred to as “cone stones” are more usually close to hemispherical with a flat or slightly concave base. They’re generally made from hematite and – although their use is not completely certain – they are widely believed to be pieces used in games of skill, chance and amusement. Perhaps also in divination or fortune telling.

May 13, 2024 · On the site, I have found many points, filled multiple mason jars with debitage, a broken axe head, abraders, rubbed hematite, and a few nutting stones.I don't know what kind of stone but it's not similar to the chert points I've been finding and seems less grainy than the nutting stones I've found. The thickness of this piece is pretty uniform.

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Agree. It doesn't look like hematite to me either. It looks more like sandstone as far as can be said from those pictures. You can check by streaking it on the back (unglazed) side of an old ceramic tile if you have any left over from redecoration work. Hematite will streak red or red-brown. Incidentally, it doesn't look like an artefact either.

Dec 5, 2013 · Although there are precedents for Native Americans in some areas producing “conestones” (with either ritual or gaming usage), they are normally a rather more shallow domed form which does not have the typical shape of deburring media and are normally made from more attractive stones including (notably) hematite.

I've been looking for rocks etc. for a couple years in NE Missouri and Iowa, Jefferson County, Van Buren, Lee, Scotland county mo, Putnam... anyway I know there's a lot of pieces so I'm sorry for overwhelming you guys, I can generally identify arrowheads but some of these other peices I don't know... like the weird little r2d2

Just received from a great friend and VA collector for Christmas, hematite celt from the burial/triangle site in greensville County VA recovered in the 1960s from next to a gas station known as uncle odies off of 58!