This French gunflint was discovered during a 2016 metal detection survey by volunteers and Kansas Historical Society archeologists at the Kaw Mission in Council Grove. Gunflints were used to generate a spark in a flintlock musket or pistol to ignite the gunpowder and as strike-a-lights for lighting a fire. These gunflints were quarried and manufactured in France, as is indicated by it's honey-yellow or blonde color. The square gunflint has one dorsal arris. Kaw Mission was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.