Thanks so much for the info, Joe. I love that site you linked, but i couldn't come up with an I.D for this point.
I call it super duper awesome!
I just wonder if that material was traded for from Ohio or how it got here. I really think it is Oh; it isn't like any flint I have seen around this region.
There are plenty of broken, worked pieces in this creek from the native material. So I wonder if this was a place they came for the material or hunted/lived here. It is a fairly nice protected spot to be near the Clinch River.
The native material is way different in color and character...more pinks and yellows; and not much of the brown or black you usually see in E TN.
This is the first whole point I have found in a very long time.
The agate is super exciting too. I have only found a few pieces of that color and many pieces of some really pretty pink and white, pink and yellow...really pretty stuff. I will post some more pics when I get a chance. I want to make sure I know better what I am doing before I try to cut the prettier stuff.
It seems to be a pretty isolated occurrence being washed out between the layers of limestone in the bank and previously broken up (coming out as broken pieces way up the bank, in the dirt).
I am just happy to have something to look at in the dirt and a puzzle to piece back together.
I am wondering if it wasn't a reef kind of area since I am finding pieces of fossilized coral.