A Gunflint Bibliography
Compiled by K. Kris Hirst <archaeology@about.com>
and Ulrike
Sommer mailto:usommer@rz.uni-leipzig.de
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Thanks
to David Harding, independent scholar >dfharding@btinternet.com<
for recent additions.
Last Updated: 25 November 2001
- Catalogue
- Le pietro del fuoco. Le mostre della Cassa die Risparmio Vicenza.1988.
- Aubert Pelissier, Gay-Lussac
- Miszellen. Verbesserungen beim Behauen der Feuersteine.
Polytechnisches Journal. 1830; 11(36),18630-76.
- Barnes, Albert
- L'industrie des pierres € fusil par la m‰thode anglaise et son rapport
avec le coupe de burin tardenoise. Bull. Soc Pr‰hist. Franc. 1937;
7/8:1-8.
- Behm, Jeffrey A.; MacKinnon, J. Jefferson, and Kuehl, James.
- Experimental use of Hixton silicified sandstone for gunflints.
Wisconsin Archeologist. 1985; 66(2):176-193.
- Blanchette, Jean-Francois.
- Gunflints from Chicoutimi Indian site (Quebec). Historical
Archaeology. 1975; 9:41-54.
- Carrillo, Richard F.
- Gun parts and related material from Fort Union Trading Post National
Historic Site. 1980. On file, Office of the State Archaeologist, Iowa
City.
- Chandler, R. H.
- Some supposed gunflint sites. PPS East Anglia. 1918; 2:360-365.
- Clarke, Rainbird
- The Flint-knapping Industry at Brandon Antiquity. 1935. March IX
- Clay, R. C. C.
- A gun-flint factory site in South Wiltshire. Antiquaries Journal.
1925; 5:423-426.
- d'Auvergene
- ›ber Feuersteine und ihre Bereitung.Polytechnisches Journal.
1827, 8(25):57-60.
- de Lotbiniere, S.
- Gunflint enquiry. Kent Arch. Review. 1980; 59:198-201.
- The story of the English gunflint, some theories and queries.Journal
of the Arms and Armour Society. 1977/, 9(1):18-53.
- de Mortillet, A.
- Les pierres € fusil-leur fabrication en Loire-et-Cher. Rev. Ecole
d'Anthr. 1908; 18:262-266.
- Deeke, W.
- Die mitteleurop„ischen Silices, nach Vorkommen, Eigenschaften und
Verwen-dung in der Pr„historie (Jena). p 53 Gunflint production in
Jasmund, R’gen (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern). 1933.
- Dolleczek, A.
- Die Entwicklung der Handfeuerwaffen im ÷sterreichischen Heere.
Minerva 1894;13/14:527-536.
- Emery, K. D.
- The geology of gunspalls. Notebook Inst. of Arch. and Anthr., Univ. of
South Carolina. 1979;11:37-48.
- Emy, J. .
- Histoire de la pierre fusil (Blois). 1978
- Forrest, A. J.
- Masters of flint (Lavenham) Brandon Industries 1983
- F÷rtsch, O.
- Gewinnung und Verarbeitung des Feuersteins in England. Zeitschr. f’r
Natiur-wiss. 1892: 371-378.
- Hamilton, T. M.
- Review of "A History of Gunflints." Historical Archaeology. 1968;
3:116-118.
- Hamilton, T. M. and Emery, K. O.
- Eighteenth-century gunflints from Fort Michilimackinac and other
colonial sites. Archaeological Completion Report Series, 13. Mackinac
Island, Michigan; 1988.
- Harding, D.F.
- Flints, percussion caps and misfire rates. Chapter 23 in Small arms of
the East India Company 1600-1856, Volume III, Ammunition and Performance
. 1999 (Foresight Books) pp 191-205.
- Hess, C.
- De glemte flinthuggere fra stevns. Skalk 1968; (5):9-15.
- Hirst, K. Kris.
- The great gunflint debate. Journal of the Iowa Archeological
Society. 1991; 38:62-65.
- Hilton-Simpson, H. W.
- Gun-flint making in Algeria. Man 1920; 20:18-19.
- Kenmotsu, Nancy A.
- Gunflints: A study. Historical Archaeology. 1990; 24(2):92-124.
- Kent, Barry C.
- More on gunflints. Historical Archaeology. 1983; 17(2):27-40.
- Knowles, Francis H. S. and Barnes, Alfred S.
- Manufacture of gunflints. Antiquity. 1937; 12:201-207.
- Krone, O.
- Kippsteine oder vorgeschichtliche Artefakte. Mannus 1929;
21:309-?
- Lehner, D.
- Das preužische Manufakturwesen. Deutsches Waffen-Journal 1968
4(8):608-609.
- Mason, Carol I.
- Gunflints and chronology at Ocmulgee National Monument. Historical
Archaeology. 1971; 6:106-109.
- Runnels, Curtis.
- Tinderflints and firemaking in the historical period. Lithic
Technology. 1994; 19(1):7-16.
- Sappington, Robert Lee.
- An annotated bibliography of gunflints. Northwest Anthropological
Research Notes. 1978; 12(1):75-108.
- Schleicher, Ch. .
- Une industrie qui disparait - la taille des silex modernes. Pierres €
fusil et € biquet. L'homme pr‰hist. 1927; 56:1-21.
- Schweinfuth, G.
- Kiesel-Nuklei aus der arabischen W’ste. Verhandl. Berliners Ges.
1885; 17:128-134. [p 129: production of gunflints in Egypt for Mehmet Ali.]
- Skertchly, Josiah (1879).
- On the manufacture of gunflints, the methods of excavation for flint, the
age of palaeolithic man and the connexion between Neolithic art and the
gun-flint trade. Mem. Geol. Survey England and Wales. 1879 [contains
a refitted Blade core for gunflints]
- von Armin
- ›ber Feuersteine und Flintensteine. Zeitschr. f’r Kunst, Wissenschaft
und Geschichte des Krieges. 1831; 23(9):201-212.
- Weiner, J’rgen
- Ein bemerkenswerter Fund von Flintensteinen aus K÷nigshoven, Stadt
Bedburg, Erftkreis. Ausgrabungen im Rheinland. 1989, 169-171
- White, Stephen W.
- On the origins of gunspalls. Historical Archaeology. 1975;
9:65-73.