wtnhunt Posted May 27, 2008 Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 Found these this year with one of the gray flint pieces and the white piece found last week while tilling. Anyone have any idea what type of tools these might have been? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randyman Posted May 27, 2008 Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 The small piece is a bit of a toss up, perhaps a piece of a good sized arrow head? The bigger pieces look to be some sort of scrapers, perhaps for fleshing hides. Regardless, they are cool finds! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andrea Posted May 27, 2008 Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 Easy..........that first one is a hoe, the second one is a tiller and that third one is your common shovel. I dunno, but those are neat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted May 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 Thought the smaller one might have been an arrowhead too. Have found other pieces in the garden in the past, think this one from a couple years ago was also possibly a scraper. This one has been probably the best condition of any find so far, found it in a plot we were working up about 400 yards away from the garden spot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted May 27, 2008 Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 Cool. I found a piece of flint yesterday in the garden, but near as I could tell, it wasn't "worked." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebeilgard Posted May 27, 2008 Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 here i live in indian country, walk all over the land, and i've never found anything like that. way to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted May 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 here i live in indian country, walk all over the land, and i've never found anything like that. way to go. Would imagine these hills along this old winding river have quite a history Steve. Sure wish I knew more about the history of the native americans here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddyboman Posted May 27, 2008 Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 Cool finds!! I would say Randyman is right with the scrapper and possible arrow head. My father-in and I look around a lot....Actually found a small neat little scrapper over the weekend while we was out.... Here is a pretty nice arrow head I found last year..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted May 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 That head is in great shape Todd, very nice find. Figure I would run across some here along the river, but everything I have found to date has been on higher ground. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muggs Posted May 27, 2008 Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 Definitely cool...never found anything like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddyboman Posted May 27, 2008 Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 That head is in great shape Todd, very nice find. Figure I would run across some here along the river, but everything I have found to date has been on higher ground. Yeah thats one of my best pieces ever.......Funny thing is my father-in law and I must have walked by this piece a dozen times before I actually saw it. We find them along rivers....on sand bars, on the higher ground and even in farm fields. Lots of fun to look and find. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adjam5 Posted May 27, 2008 Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 Finds like that are VERY cool:). As hunters I think we feel a connection, when we find a tool, arrowhead or something that we ourselves would have owned had we been alive back then. You know you are on good hunting grounds if you are finding heads and spear tips. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkeygirl Posted May 28, 2008 Report Share Posted May 28, 2008 Nice finds!!!!! I've found a few in farm fields....it's special to find one of these, knowing they were made by hand by some great people and even greater hunters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrow32 Posted May 28, 2008 Report Share Posted May 28, 2008 Don't know anything about them but sweet finds! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aksheephuntress Posted May 29, 2008 Report Share Posted May 29, 2008 ...it looks like an ancient SELT...for scraping hides...as Toddy aluded to... -(to WTnhunt )-Wasn't your area , at one time, inhabited by the "Clovis" peoples...?? ....I agree...Awesome find.... -I LOVE stuff like this.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pendog Posted May 29, 2008 Report Share Posted May 29, 2008 I found these a few years ago in OH, my sisters husbanc finds pieces all the time in the spring after the farmers plow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pendog Posted May 29, 2008 Report Share Posted May 29, 2008 I found these several years ago in a field in southern OH. My bro n law has founds many pieces over the years, all of them coming after the farmers plow the fields. Always wonder how they got there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted May 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 29, 2008 ...it looks like an ancient SELT...for scraping hides...as Toddy aluded to... -(to WTnhunt )-Wasn't your area , at one time, inhabited by the "Clovis" peoples...?? ....I agree...Awesome find.... -I LOVE stuff like this.... Don't know if they were in this part of the country or not, will have to do some more research. I found these several years ago in a field in southern OH. My bro n law has founds many pieces over the years, all of them coming after the farmers plow the fields. Always wonder how they got there. Some nice finds there. Most of what I have found has come either while tilling, or after working the ground and getting a rain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pendog Posted May 29, 2008 Report Share Posted May 29, 2008 They were found a couple weeks after tilling and in places where the rain washed off the small hills in the middle of fields. Those were all found in one night in a 5 (approx) acre field. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waterfowler Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 cool finds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deb Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 Very cool everyone! I love finding stuff like those. Have found a few fair ones at our camp in GA and lots of pieces and a smaller grinding stone. Haven't found that perfect one, yet. When the hunting is slow, I start looking at the dirt. I like collecting all the flint I can find, too, even the small pieces. Some day I want to try my hand at knapping (sp). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redkneck Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 William, the two on the left are what I would call preforms. They are very common if you are close to a quarry site. I can pick up a truckload of them in places around here. Some of them are flat on one side and worked on the other, and we call them turtlebacks. I'll try to post some pics of some of my stuff when i get a chance. Here's some info on preforms: http://www.ou.edu/cas/archsur/OKArtifacts/preform.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redkneck Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 ...it looks like an ancient SELT...for scraping hides...as Toddy aluded to... -(to WTnhunt )-Wasn't your area , at one time, inhabited by the "Clovis" peoples...?? ....I agree...Awesome find.... -I LOVE stuff like this.... There are clovis points scattered all around this part of the country, Kathleen. Some of the nice ones can be worth a few thousand dollars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redkneck Posted May 12, 2009 Report Share Posted May 12, 2009 Here are a few examples of preforms. These are pretty big, but they can also only be a couple of inches long. I put a quarter in the pic for reference size. Sorry for the quality, but taking the pics on my phone is much faster than my dig cam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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