While many people can tell you how to start a fire, or knap tools/arrowheads from flint, not many seem to cover how to find flint. With my limited experience I am about to attempt to do so.
First my Disclaimer. I am only familiar with the flint IN MY AREA. I'm sure Canid, or FVR can probably tell you what kind it is, Kentucky Horn Stone or something like that IF I recall correctly.
This type of flint has a chalky cortex surrounding it. So at first Glance it just looks like a rock, nothing special really. Now In my area we do have rocks that are JUST the "Chalk" and do not contain any flint. There are two MAJOR things I look for when looking for flint. 1) Weight and 2)Sound The rocks that DO have flint inside are much heavier than those that do not have flint. The sound of a rock that does NOT have flint is a dull "Clunk" and those that do have it, have more of a "Clink" sound. To some small degree there is also a slight difference in shape. The surest way to find out if you have a flint type rock, is to break some off. Again, like the sound that which DOES have flint is sharp edged, that which does NOT have flint is dull. Simple Huh?
I did a video today while looking in a plowed field for flint. Hope this helps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK1xwglbZe4
This is what I found......
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