Need help identifying this Indian rock.

Dbllunger · Feb 21, 2011

I found this rock in Middle TN this past weekend and am not really sure what exactly it is. Some sort of club or ax perhaps?? If anyone knows, please enlighten me. I have found tons of stuff over the years but never one of "these". The hersheys kiss didn't last 1 minute past the last picture.

basset · Feb 21, 2011

I would guess some kind of club head, grooved for tying into a forked or split stick.

scope eye · Feb 22, 2011

Really old indian biscut. It's so old you just thought it was a rock. It probably didn't taste good so they just threw it away.

urdubob · Feb 22, 2011

This seem to be a good example of a fishing net weight. I have found a couple over the years.

Urdubob

http://www.pasttimeartifacts.com/Net.Anchor&BolaWeights.pdf

Dbllunger · Feb 22, 2011

urdubob said:
This seem to be a good example of a fishing net weight. I have found a couple over the years.

Urdubob

http://www.pasttimeartifacts.com/Net.Anchor&BolaWeights.pdf

Thanks, I think you may be correct. I read the link and looked for more info on these bolo/fishing weights but there really isn't a lot of info out there that I was able to find.

urdubob · Feb 23, 2011

I Have found mine walking the creeks and river banks. Was this close to water? You can still find piles of rock and stone that the indians used as fish traps in stewarts creek near smyrna. These were used. I think, in a type of cast net. They caught some in woven stick baskets in the fish traps. They would also use the cast nets in the deeper pools. They also used gill nets when creeks emptied in to rivers. ( I am no expert but have read quite a lot about indian fishing in eastern U.S. )

urdubob