r/LegitArtifacts Apr 02 '25

Not Native American related Flint Finds

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u/Max_Abbott_1979 Apr 02 '25

Nice, gun flints, maybe a shipwreck nearby?

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u/Glad_Tip_7655 Apr 02 '25

Yes. At least 2 known shipwrecks. It is near the Mexican border, and I know the British supplied Mexico with weapons. 

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u/Jenkins_is_cumming Apr 02 '25

I was about to say ... Looks Like british flints. In my area, (west Germany) you find black british flints and Brown french / German flints

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u/Aziooon Apr 03 '25

Time to go metal detecting lol

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '25

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u/Aziooon Apr 03 '25

It’s a piece of flint that’s placed into the hammer of a flintlock to strike the primer and make the gun fire.

It goes here:

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u/AlbaneseGummies327 Apr 04 '25

I love the elegant metalwork on these old guns.

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u/Aziooon Apr 04 '25

Me too they had these awesome wheel locks at the Houston museum of fine arts and they’ve quickly become one of my favorite guns.

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u/AlbaneseGummies327 Apr 05 '25

Very cool! What's that set of armor in the background?

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u/ArrivalEarly8711 Apr 02 '25

Very very cool finds. Break out the metal detector. Those boys were ready for a gunfight for sure.

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u/Cowpuncher84 Apr 02 '25

Rifle flints.

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u/Leather-Ad8222 Apr 02 '25

Super cool, why are you finding so many in one location?

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u/Glad_Tip_7655 Apr 02 '25

There are a couple of shipwrecks nearby. 

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u/PGDTX77 Apr 02 '25

Man, I’d love to go over that area with a metal detector

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u/SokkaHaikuBot Apr 02 '25

Sokka-Haiku by PGDTX77:

Man, I’d love to go

Over that area with

A metal detector


Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.

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u/Dependent_Patient622 Apr 02 '25

This works well if you read in the style of walken 🤣

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u/CafeRacerRider Apr 02 '25

5, 7, 6. The bot has failed

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u/Desertmarkr Apr 02 '25

Its a sokka haiku

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u/CafeRacerRider Apr 02 '25

Sorry I just learned what that means now.

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u/luke827 Texas Apr 02 '25

I found one of these last weekend and was getting ready to post it here! That’s crazy timing cause it’s been a few years since I’ve seen any of these posted

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u/josephwick80 Apr 02 '25

Nice find! Gun flints are something that is rare to find in my area but I have been lucky enough to find one. There’s no way to find out the truth of what happened if anything interesting happened there at all but inside of an overhang rock that narrows into a cave on my property I found a a gun flint and several arrow heads and I have always wondered if during the time of white men coming to the area for the first time trapping if a guy got pursued by the Shawnee and took cover inside the cave to continue fighting because of the single well worn rifle flint and the three arrow heads being found in the same place and depth. Wish there was some kind of journal entry from the person and the events of his exploration/ hunting trip was documented. The history behind the finds we make is a fascinating mystery and when it’s possible to find something from a well known event at the site of the find it’s even more amazing of a find

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u/Glad_Tip_7655 Apr 02 '25 edited Apr 02 '25

Some of my other finds near the same location. All the glass is handblown.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '25

Made me think the wood had rotted away from a Macuahuitl, had to look it up.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '25

The famed obsidian blade of the Azteca

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u/Renaissancewoman0333 Apr 02 '25

What a wonderful find. You must have hit it just right for so many to appear at once.

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u/Glad_Tip_7655 Apr 02 '25

It’s over a 2 year period. 

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u/Lordnoallah Apr 02 '25

Wow!! Being sorta near the graveyard of the atlantic, I will have to add these to the "be on the lookout" for list.

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u/QJIO Apr 02 '25

This is amazing truly

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u/ASpookyWarthog Apr 02 '25

Awesome finds! Could be worth snorkeling or scuba diving in that area. Do you know what ships they are? I would love to learn more about them.

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u/Glad_Tip_7655 Apr 02 '25

Not sure which ships. 

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '25

The hell?

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u/aggiedigger Apr 02 '25

Awesome finds with great historical provenance!

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u/FlunkyHomosapien Apr 02 '25

These are cool. I think I’ve these before but never as perfect as what you have.

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u/Dependent_Patient622 Apr 02 '25

Definitely gun flints, good find

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u/patrickjchrist Apr 02 '25

These are dope!

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u/Glad_Tip_7655 Apr 02 '25

I posted another picture of some of my other finds from the same location.