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Picked up this piece yesterday. I wonder what they may have used this for. It's really a bit large and heavy for a spear point. Maybe a hand axe or some kinda scraper? Knife? Some kind of ceremonial piece maybe? Thoughts?
 

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Got my old book out this is the best i can do top left corner on both pic. Not sure but the bottom pic 1st one is pretty close
 

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It's rather large, it's 3.5 inches long and 2 inches wide at the base and at least 1/2 inch thick at its widest point.. the base is straight but if you look at it and want to make it a little concave, you can almost make the case for that too.. It's a water find, not a plowed field so it's in good shape, no serious damage dings that I can tell.

There's a cool web site for point identification I forgot about.. and after looking at it, I still don't know what it is, lol... There are a few point types look very much like it, but based on it's size, it's too large for most of these point type. There is a Nolichucky on here that looks just about like it, but that point type is just too small for this point...

http://www.projectilepoints.net/Search/Eastcentral_Search.html
 

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