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BUCKEYE LAKE FLINT MAN?
I have identified what appears to be a worked cobble of Flint Ridge flint which strongly resembles a life-size human skull, and human facial profiles, from multiple viewing angles and distances. It stands upright on its own base (anatomically the neck) and would have made a suitable sculpture for display or ceremonial alter use. It has possible hand grips from the rear as if to animate the skull by having fine control of its movement pivoting on its base, puppet-like. I found the piece on my property at 306 Lake Shore Dr W in Hebron, Ohio, Licking Township, Licking County. When my home foundation was dug to a depth of about 6 feet, some flint blocks (flint ridge, coschocton black, cherts, etc) were found, along with other hardstone rocks, and saved for use in a rock garden, piled rising three feet up to my screened porch overlooking what was once called “buffalo swamp.” This piece has likely been sitting, exposed, since 1937, in this rock garden until I picked it up and was startled to find a face looking back at me. When it then sat perfectly balanced in the upright “statue” pose, I determined there was too much happening with this stone to leave it outside any longer. It is a flint base with a possible addition of a concrete material as filler where no flint was present, and finished in a white plaster of which there may be some residual material. The piece weighs 12.1 lbs, an anatomically correct weight for the head of an approximately 150lb human. It has discernable and dramatic eye sockets, forehead, a nose, mouth, ears, neck, fully rounded skull. It can be appreciated from every angle as you walk around the sculpture. The aesthetic of the human form is unmistakable in multiple expressions.
The artifact is so perfectly balanced on its base, I was confident enough to place it on top of a Ball canning jar and a terry washcloth as a display pedestal. AI large part of the weight of the artifact, almost ½ is weighted toward the rear of the skull which hangs. However, the slightest nudge and the weight of the entire object is thrown and it topples over.
Now, the business of studying this thing.
BUCKEYE LAKE FLINT MAN?
I have identified what appears to be a worked cobble of Flint Ridge flint which strongly resembles a life-size human skull, and human facial profiles, from multiple viewing angles and distances. It stands upright on its own base (anatomically the neck) and would have made a suitable sculpture for display or ceremonial alter use. It has possible hand grips from the rear as if to animate the skull by having fine control of its movement pivoting on its base, puppet-like. I found the piece on my property at 306 Lake Shore Dr W in Hebron, Ohio, Licking Township, Licking County. When my home foundation was dug to a depth of about 6 feet, some flint blocks (flint ridge, coschocton black, cherts, etc) were found, along with other hardstone rocks, and saved for use in a rock garden, piled rising three feet up to my screened porch overlooking what was once called “buffalo swamp.” This piece has likely been sitting, exposed, since 1937, in this rock garden until I picked it up and was startled to find a face looking back at me. When it then sat perfectly balanced in the upright “statue” pose, I determined there was too much happening with this stone to leave it outside any longer. It is a flint base with a possible addition of a concrete material as filler where no flint was present, and finished in a white plaster of which there may be some residual material. The piece weighs 12.1 lbs, an anatomically correct weight for the head of an approximately 150lb human. It has discernable and dramatic eye sockets, forehead, a nose, mouth, ears, neck, fully rounded skull. It can be appreciated from every angle as you walk around the sculpture. The aesthetic of the human form is unmistakable in multiple expressions.
The artifact is so perfectly balanced on its base, I was confident enough to place it on top of a Ball canning jar and a terry washcloth as a display pedestal. AI large part of the weight of the artifact, almost ½ is weighted toward the rear of the skull which hangs. However, the slightest nudge and the weight of the entire object is thrown and it topples over.
Now, the business of studying this thing.
BUCKEYE LAKE FLINT MAN?
I have identified what appears to be a worked cobble of Flint Ridge flint which strongly resembles a life-size human skull, and human facial profiles, from multiple viewing angles and distances. It stands upright on its own base (anatomically the neck) and would have made a suitable sculpture for display or ceremonial alter use. It has possible hand grips from the rear as if to animate the skull by having fine control of its movement pivoting on its base, puppet-like. I found the piece on my property at 306 Lake Shore Dr W in Hebron, Ohio, Licking Township, Licking County. When my home foundation was dug to a depth of about 6 feet, some flint blocks (flint ridge, coschocton black, cherts, etc) were found, along with other hardstone rocks, and saved for use in a rock garden, piled rising three feet up to my screened porch overlooking what was once called “buffalo swamp.” This piece has likely been sitting, exposed, since 1937, in this rock garden until I picked it up and was startled to find a face looking back at me. When it then sat perfectly balanced in the upright “statue” pose, I determined there was too much happening with this stone to leave it outside any longer. It is a flint base with a possible addition of a concrete material as filler where no flint was present, and finished in a white plaster of which there may be some residual material. The piece weighs 12.1 lbs, an anatomically correct weight for the head of an approximately 150lb human. It has discernable and dramatic eye sockets, forehead, a nose, mouth, ears, neck, fully rounded skull. It can be appreciated from every angle as you walk around the sculpture. The aesthetic of the human form is unmistakable in multiple expressions.
The artifact is so perfectly balanced on its base, I was confident enough to place it on top of a Ball canning jar and a terry washcloth as a display pedestal. AI large part of the weight of the artifact, almost ½ is weighted toward the rear of the skull which hangs. However, the slightest nudge and the weight of the entire object is thrown and it topples over.
Now, the business of studying this thing.
BUCKEYE LAKE FLINT MAN?
I have identified what appears to be a worked cobble of Flint Ridge flint which strongly resembles a life-size human skull, and human facial profiles, from multiple viewing angles and distances. It stands upright on its own base (anatomically the neck) and would have made a suitable sculpture for display or ceremonial alter use. It has possible hand grips from the rear as if to animate the skull by having fine control of its movement pivoting on its base, puppet-like. I found the piece on my property at 306 Lake Shore Dr W in Hebron, Ohio, Licking Township, Licking County. When my home foundation was dug to a depth of about 6 feet, some flint blocks (flint ridge, coschocton black, cherts, etc) were found, along with other hardstone rocks, and saved for use in a rock garden, piled rising three feet up to my screened porch overlooking what was once called “buffalo swamp.” This piece has likely been sitting, exposed, since 1937, in this rock garden until I picked it up and was startled to find a face looking back at me. When it then sat perfectly balanced in the upright “statue” pose, I determined there was too much happening with this stone to leave it outside any longer. It is a flint base with a possible addition of a concrete material as filler where no flint was present, and finished in a white plaster of which there may be some residual material. The piece weighs 12.1 lbs, an anatomically correct weight for the head of an approximately 150lb human. It has discernable and dramatic eye sockets, forehead, a nose, mouth, ears, neck, fully rounded skull. It can be appreciated from every angle as you walk around the sculpture. The aesthetic of the human form is unmistakable in multiple expressions.
The artifact is so perfectly balanced on its base, I was confident enough to place it on top of a Ball canning jar and a terry washcloth as a display pedestal. AI large part of the weight of the artifact, almost ½ is weighted toward the rear of the skull which hangs. However, the slightest nudge and the weight of the entire object is thrown and it topples over.
Now, the business of studying this thing.
Cattle pens in the Flint Hills of Kansas near Matfield Green. These pens are visible from a public viewpoint accessible from the Kansas Turnpike/I-35.
FAMILY WALK, CHALDON, CHRISTMAS DAY 2011 (2/32).
Restored barn on the North Downs Way at Willey Park Farm, in the Caterham-Chaldon area of Surrey.
This modernised (converted?) barn is close to Willey Park Farm and presumably part of it. Here we are on the crest of the North Downs, about 200 m above sea level. The North Downs Way passes along the lane (Pilgrims' Lane) just behind the barn and we turned left here on to it. This lane is also the route of an ancient trackway. The barn is made of three different building materials. 'Panels' of mortared knapped (split) flints are framed by brickwork. The end wall also contains some coursework in a fine-grained greyish-white freestone (see below), which has also been used for the corners of the building. I guess this building is 19th Century.
WALK SUMMARY
We started at the Harrow pub (TQ 326538) on the North Downs in the Caterham and Chaldon area of Surrey. We followed the crest of the North Downs for about 2-3 Km before leaving it to make a loop through Chaldon and back to the Harrow. Weather was rather overcast, mild and windy and the paths were very muddy after all our recent rain. But the day stayed dry.
GEOLOGICAL NOTES
The bedrock here is what the British Geological Survey map as the Holywell Nodular Chalk Formation and New Pit Chalk Formation (Undifferentiated) i.e. broadly and informally 'Middle Chalk' (Cenomanian to Turonian age, 99.6-89.3 million years).
Geologically, the flints in the walling will have come from higher levels in the Chalk (Upper Cretaceous, 99.6-65.5 million years) as in this immediate area. However, for building material, the flints may well have been extracted from local soil, local river deposits, or local Clay-with-Flints deposits as these all contain flints which have been weathered out from the Chalk. The flints have evidently been graded (selected for similarity in size) presumably by the builder or supplier, and are about 10-15 cm across, and then split (knapped). Flint (silica) is almost indestructible, and will outlast the mortar they have been set in.
The greyish-white freestone is probably Reigate Stone / Merstham Stone a local facies of the Upper Greensand Formation (Albian to Cenomanian, 112-93.5 million years) which occurs immediately beneath the Chalk. This is a fine sandstone, partly calcareous at least in places.
National Grid Reference: TQ 321542
ID: DSC_3108 - Version 2
Home of Jesse Shirley's Etruscan Bone and Flint Mill, Etruria Industrial Museum is the last working steam powered potter’s mill in Britain. Situated at the heart of the Potteries on the junction of the Trent and Mersey and Caldon canals, it was built in 1857 to grind bone and flint for the pottery industry. Today, it is a thriving museum.
Class 175 Commuter train at Flint Station Sunday Morning the next train will arrive in 2 hours! hence the number of carriages
BUCKEYE LAKE FLINT MAN?
I have identified what appears to be a worked cobble of Flint Ridge flint which strongly resembles a life-size human skull, and human facial profiles, from multiple viewing angles and distances. It stands upright on its own base (anatomically the neck) and would have made a suitable sculpture for display or ceremonial alter use. It has possible hand grips from the rear as if to animate the skull by having fine control of its movement pivoting on its base, puppet-like. I found the piece on my property at 306 Lake Shore Dr W in Hebron, Ohio, Licking Township, Licking County. When my home foundation was dug to a depth of about 6 feet, some flint blocks (flint ridge, coschocton black, cherts, etc) were found, along with other hardstone rocks, and saved for use in a rock garden, piled rising three feet up to my screened porch overlooking what was once called “buffalo swamp.” This piece has likely been sitting, exposed, since 1937, in this rock garden until I picked it up and was startled to find a face looking back at me. When it then sat perfectly balanced in the upright “statue” pose, I determined there was too much happening with this stone to leave it outside any longer. It is a flint base with a possible addition of a concrete material as filler where no flint was present, and finished in a white plaster of which there may be some residual material. The piece weighs 12.1 lbs, an anatomically correct weight for the head of an approximately 150lb human. It has discernable and dramatic eye sockets, forehead, a nose, mouth, ears, neck, fully rounded skull. It can be appreciated from every angle as you walk around the sculpture. The aesthetic of the human form is unmistakable in multiple expressions.
The artifact is so perfectly balanced on its base, I was confident enough to place it on top of a Ball canning jar and a terry washcloth as a display pedestal. AI large part of the weight of the artifact, almost ½ is weighted toward the rear of the skull which hangs. However, the slightest nudge and the weight of the entire object is thrown and it topples over.
Now, the business of studying this thing.
This is apparently the artists view of how Michigan has handled the Flint lead water crisis.
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Woolworths - Flint
(store 996)
13 September 2009
closed 30 December 2008
30-32 Church Street, Flint CH6 5AL
BUCKEYE LAKE FLINT MAN?
I have identified what appears to be a worked cobble of Flint Ridge flint which strongly resembles a life-size human skull, and human facial profiles, from multiple viewing angles and distances. It stands upright on its own base (anatomically the neck) and would have made a suitable sculpture for display or ceremonial alter use. It has possible hand grips from the rear as if to animate the skull by having fine control of its movement pivoting on its base, puppet-like. I found the piece on my property at 306 Lake Shore Dr W in Hebron, Ohio, Licking Township, Licking County. When my home foundation was dug to a depth of about 6 feet, some flint blocks (flint ridge, coschocton black, cherts, etc) were found, along with other hardstone rocks, and saved for use in a rock garden, piled rising three feet up to my screened porch overlooking what was once called “buffalo swamp.” This piece has likely been sitting, exposed, since 1937, in this rock garden until I picked it up and was startled to find a face looking back at me. When it then sat perfectly balanced in the upright “statue” pose, I determined there was too much happening with this stone to leave it outside any longer. It is a flint base with a possible addition of a concrete material as filler where no flint was present, and finished in a white plaster of which there may be some residual material. The piece weighs 12.1 lbs, an anatomically correct weight for the head of an approximately 150lb human. It has discernable and dramatic eye sockets, forehead, a nose, mouth, ears, neck, fully rounded skull. It can be appreciated from every angle as you walk around the sculpture. The aesthetic of the human form is unmistakable in multiple expressions.
The artifact is so perfectly balanced on its base, I was confident enough to place it on top of a Ball canning jar and a terry washcloth as a display pedestal. AI large part of the weight of the artifact, almost ½ is weighted toward the rear of the skull which hangs. However, the slightest nudge and the weight of the entire object is thrown and it topples over.
Now, the business of studying this thing.
Flint steals a Crimson Guard Uniform and hides the body, but it sounds like some Techno Vipers might be on to him.
A shot from my stroy Mindbender's Plan that I sadly might never finish.
Much of the auto industry in Flint, Michigan, has been shut down and removed, but General Motors still has an assembly plant there. (Scanned from a slide)
To read more about the Palaeolithic flints from submerged landscapes, which have been reported through the Marine Aggregate Industry Archaeological Protocol,