Amazing drill

[Wren Redwine]

Was wondering if anyone has found anything like this? Unifaced beveled on both sides opposite direction and corner knotched was found in Warren county KY

[redrocks]

That's unique ..Nice find...and welcome from Connecticut

[Lindenmeier-Man]

Two beveled biface blade. JJ

[Jethro355]

That’s a really nice find👍👍

[p kurt]

That is a very nice Cobb's knife. Early archaic unnotched lostlake, dovetail, Thebes blade. Some would say preform but I say unnotched. It wouldn't be heavily beveled and resharpened as a preform. Nice

[Wren Redwine]

Ok thank you for your input greatly appreciated

[SurfaceHunter]

Better discrimination than I could of given but yes on the Cobb knife.

[sailorjoe]

I don't believe that to be a drill. I tend to agree with Pkurt about the Cobbs knife. It looks like it has gone thru many sharpenings.

[Tam]

Some great information here for learning and a great find .
what I keep finding is points/blades can be resharpened to the point of making an ID gets tricky .
What could be a type then resharpened and beveled to keep it in use becomes in question in trying to ID it .
We modern people may just be finding some new variants or lucky to find what someone back then held on to .

[sailorjoe]

Hi Tam, From my experience there are some points that one may not be able to ID. In my former collection I had 1285 whole, unbroken points representing about 90 different types. Actually, there were 976 that I could assign a type name with confidence.The other 300 more or less, I could not ID. The reasons being, I think: (1) there are some point styles that have never been given a name by the folks that name points, (2) some point types are so similar that unless you have a good example of the type then you can't decide between one of several choices and (3) when the people were making them, they quit working before it was "perfect" and decided, "oh what the heck, this is could enough to get the job done" I think that may be the case for many points that were used as knives.

[SDhunter]

Nice to see one. We don’t get them here very often

[SDhunter]

That could be one for our information center, if the type is agreed upon

[Kyflintguy]

I think it's a Cobb's without doubt. And would be a good addition.

[Kyflintguy]

Hi Wren, beautiful Cobb's blade you've found! Looks like it's likely made from Harrodsburg chert to me. I think it would be a great addition to our info center like Gary mentions however the photos are slightly out of focus and not well lit to show flaking. If you are interested in allowing me to place it in our info center, I suggest a few pictures in clear focus outside in indirect lighting to help show the material and flaking better. Of course this suggestion is only if you would like it to be in the info center so completely your choice. Thanks!

[Wren Redwine]

Awesome sure 👍

[kayakaddict]

Wren that is a great item congrats . what's the material?

[DoobieWah]

I don't think that's a drill.

That is obviously something a woman would use to murder her husband in his sleep.

I bet it's haunted too!

[Jethro355]

This made me laugh.



A lot.👍