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Item Details
Public
Available to everyone
Culture
antebellum
Title
Gunflint or strike-a-light
Work Type
gunflints
firesteels
Date
ca. 1800-1850
Location
Cumberland Island,Camden,Georgia,United States
Material
stone
flint (rock)
Description
Irregular, roughly triangular or heart-shaped piece of flaked flint. The flint is light grey to white with slight reddish flecking. This piece was originally identified as a gun-flint (Ascher and Fairbanks 1971: 13-14), and it may have begun its working period as such, but in its present form it appears to be better described as a "strike-a-light", a piece of flint used with a fire-steel to start fires.
Accession Number
Anthr1983_002_0002_01
Related Item
Robert Ascher and Charles H. Fairbanks, "Excavation of a Slave Cabin: Georgia, U.S.A." Historical Archaeology 5 (1971), pp.3-17.
Condition
Heavily battered and worn
Agent2
Prof. Emeritus Robert Ascher, one of the principal excavators
Provenance
Slave cabin on the Rayfield Plantation, excavated in 1969 in one of the first archaeological studies of slavery in the US.
Archival Collection
Georgia Slave Cabin archaeological collection
Rights
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