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Title: Ohio archæological and historical quarterly
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society
Subjects: History Archaeology
Publisher: Columbus : Published for the Society by A.H. Smythe
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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ry and found the prevailing color to be a lightblue-gray, translucent in thin sections, but frequently varying incolor from a dep red and yellow with shades of lilac. In manyinstances, seams of translucent chalcedony extended into themass of the flint, sometimes only about one-eighth of an inchapart, giving the flint the appearance of banded agate. How-ever, this banded flint when struck with a heavy hammer wouldseparate into needle-like forms which made the flint worthlessas far as primitive man was concerned. The lilac-colored flintfrom this quarry was often filled with very small geodes ofquartz crystals, which did not greatly interfere with its use asimplement-making material. Adjoining the lilac-colored flint was a slightly yellow-coloredflint containing much chalcedony and larger clusters of quartzcrystals. The ancient quarryman had uncovered a cluster morethan six inches in diameter, the crystals ranging in size up toone-half inch in diameter, colored a light amethyst, and very
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Fig. 4. Face of quarry showing the flint to be three feet, seven inches in thickness.(116) Flint Ridge. 117 beautiful. Another very interesting deposit of flint, known asthe brecciated form, was found in the highly colored red flint inthis quarry. These deposits are not much larger than a mansfist, are usually oblong in general form, and are made up ofsmall angular fragments of flint which seem to have been heldin suspension in clear or slightly colored chalcedony. After the work of examination of Pit No. i was com-pleted, a good opportunity to try the experiment of quarryingby the use of fire presented itself, for here was the bed of flintuncovered and an abundance of dry wood at hand. The firewas kindled, and was kept burning for two hours, producing anintense heat on the underlying face of the flint. The fire wasthen removed and two buckets of cold water were thrown uponthe surface. I fully expected the flint to break in large pieces,but it merely checked and cracked into small pie

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