what did I find

[huntintn]

Doing some bulldozing in a creek today when nature called. Got down to take a leak and picked this up . Its about 2 1/2 inchs long.

 

[RUGER]

Part of a spearhead or scraper of some sort.
Honestly I can't tell if that is the "point end" or base that is intact.
Pretty cool though huh?

 

[CATCHDAWG]

Looks like the bottom half of a small blade to me....

 

[Chris Tripp]

look at the bottom picture.... transverse flaking, a flute running up from the bottom... what he has appears to be a broken Clovis or maybe a Cumberland

 

[Delta Boy]

the flaking looks to big to be anything nice from what i can see it is a scraper

 

[huntintn]

Doing some bulldozing in a creek today when nature called. Got down to take a leak and Its about 2 1/2 inchs long.


Sorry dude. Couldnt resist

your mind on my johnson agian.

 

[Chris Tripp]

the flaking looks to big to be anything nice from what i can see it is a scraper

if only it were that simple, there were severall different flaking techniques used during different periods. The usually bigger flaking means an earlier piece (Paleo or early Archaic).... Note the flute in the middle of the piece, a characteristic found on most paleo pieces such as clovis, cumberlands, crowesfield, redstone and some others from the paleo period.

 

[bowhunter 51]

I fiqure its been used to scrap....scale fish, scrap hide, stuff
like that...I fiqure it was evaluated by the carrier as a tool..
I don't think it a damaged spearhead but a by-product of
projectile manufacture...Useful, worthy of carrying but discarded
or lost once the edge dulled.....BH51.......................