The most unique characteristic of this artifact is the orange impurity within the pure quartz. The most probable mineral of this impurity is feldspar. The specimen is rather small and fits easily between the thumb and forefinger. It therefore may have served the function of a thumb scraper. The length is only 12 mm and the flake is 10mm at maximum width.
All edges save the basal edge appear to be bifacially reworked.
The sides are straight and without notches. Flakes Flakes are those pieces that do not show evidence of reworking, and are debitage from the tool-making process. The Island site yielded 5 quartz flakes. Little more can be said of these flakes except to infer tool-making on the sites, which will be discussed later. Quartzite Quartzite is metamorphosed sandstone which has a similar hardness to quartz, but has a less predictable fracturing sequence.