Thought I would share

[Tam]

My friend found this plowing his field in SW Georgia . It’s so big I resized for format and these are the only 2 . I have to get more photos to show how thick the patina is . It has a ding from the plow and you can see a hint of Carmel Chert . So here we have a piece that the patina is thicker then the inside Chert .
Time for me to get off the deer hunting and go get some points .

[utilized flake]

Wow that's beautiful! Can't wait to see what others think!!!

[redrocks]

Hmm wonder if was gonna be a hoe? Cool Tam

[Kentucky point]

CRIPES! That's massive! Might we call it the Oglethorpe Biface...?

[Rio Del Norte]

It's a beauty, amazing size.

[loudog]

what are the dimensions?

[Tam]

Gotta go back that guy was watching me like I would drop it . My fingers like that are 3 inches for a gage . He had a Cookie jar of dovetails and Bolens killing me

[Artifascination]

That thing is big enough to be a dinner tray! It’s a neat hunk of chert for sure!

[2ndoldman]

Amazing.
I agree that it is time to hunt for your own.

[Tam]

Found a piece of pottery nothing new right

[SurfaceHunter]

I’m thinking big hoe myself but maybe wiljo will chime in and let us know. Hurry and walk that field must be something good showing. That thing is big enough to trip over

[Ron Kelley]

Hey Tam, That sure is a huge biface. You have to wonder what they had in mind.

[Josie]

Tam, that's a good one! Hope you get a big buck while in Georgia and you find lots of artifacts!

[Tam]

Me to

[pkfrey]

I think it's a large quarry biface preform/cache blade. It may have been intended for a spade, but there isn't any polish on the edges or surface, so it wasn't used yet, if it was going to be a spade. What Tam is calling extremely heavy patina, could still be the rind attached to it. The rind could have been that thick that it needs more flaking to get to the chert inside, which would be hard to do since it's already so thin.

[SurfaceHunter]

Should be more of them in that area shouldn’t there? I thought it was awful big for a hoe.

[Tam]

Paul I’ll look for that Chert and see if I can find one with the core still on it . I have several points out of it . Carmel colored .Going to have to educate myself on rind .

[sailorjoe]

Yes, indeedy, a whopper of a tool. With one end broken it's kinda hard to say for sure what it is or was. But if found on a site that had been used for agricultural purposes, I see no reason to suspect that it was a preform of any type but a functional tool halfted and used as a hoe or some such implement. I found a similar such item that was in a site adjacent to the Tennessee River. The kind of site it was found on will help determine whether it was some kind of preform or whether it was a tool already put to use.

[Von]

Wow!!! Now that’s a Big Super Cool Artifact!!!

Von