He became the owner of a private gunflint museum and took a specialist interest in gun flints.

The artifacts found consisted of clay pipe fragments, gun flints, datable pottery, glass and nails.

The team dug 420 test pits, and they uncovered several artifacts including a Charles II farthing coin, French and English gun flints, as well as glass, metal and other items.

He bolts down all events, all creeds, and beliefs, and persuasions, all hard things visible and invisible, never mind how knobby; as an ostrich of potent digestion gobbles down bullets and gun flints.

Nearby, in another spot of shade, a brace of other braves squatted, industriously knapping gun flints from a core of the rock, smoothing and perfecting their creations by use of antler picks and small, heavy mallets.

They chose to save three of each, finding pottery fragments, stone tools, arrowheads, knives, and scrapers at the Indian sites and ceramics, broken pieces of tableware, gun flints, bottle glass, and tobacco pipe fragments at the historic sites.

The excavation team sent to the island uncovered a 10-carat (42%) gold 16th-century English signet ring, gun flints, and two 16th-century copper farthings at the site of the ancient Croatoan capital, 50 miles (80 km) from the old Roanoke colony.

A team of archaeologists from Denver examined the site and found trader's beads, musket balls, melted lead, a percussion cap, gun flints, a musket hammer, a brass gun forestock, presumably from a Hawken rifle, and some five-hole buttons.

Inside the fort is a village of 8 to 10 houses, yielding a trove of fragments from iron kettles, pothooks, pottery pots with Pequot marks, pipes stamped with English makers' marks, wampum, musket balls, gun flints, arrow points, spear points and decorative objects.