Tools From Florida’s Central West Coast

[Hal Gorges]

No.1-2 is a slightly different shell scraper from a Crystal River midden....No. 3 thru 6 is a net weight from a Homasassa, river midden. It’s made of lime rock...This type fishing weight is found on most saltwater midden sites..Thanks for lookin

[tomclark]

Gawd I love this stuff!!!! Hal, this thingy was found up in Palm Harbor...!!!

[Hal Gorges]

Ain’t they just the coolest little thingies...sent an e Mail,and pm, did you get em.., I don’t know, pm or email me

[tomclark]

Got yur email and PM! Tryin to get caught up on EVERYTHING lol I'm losing it. Looking forward to it WOI !!!!

[Hal Gorges]

Ok thanks, cool.. understand ..Lol.

[Cecilia]

Twins!

[tomf]

Photos for 1 & 2 don't show for me...
Weight is terrific. Lime rock looks good for shaping. Heavy or not?

[Hal Gorges]

None of the first set showed for me ,Lol..I put up the second set and quit, , hey thanks for lookin Tom, Hope your finding somethingill try again

[Hal Gorges]

[pageben745]

Great find

[Hal Gorges]

Thanks for lookin Ben ..With the amount of posts I do I don’t always see everyone’s but I always look thru their posting list, anyway, I checked out the Susquehanna Museum one..that’s a great setup, thanks for posting.

[antmike915]

Really like the net weights, I never found any .

[Hal Gorges]

You poor thing...This coming from a guy that can find a point in an igloo, Lol.

[MondoLithic]

Thanks for the informative picture post, as always. What kind of animal do you think they were fleshing with those shell scrapers, or was there a different intended usage? I just can't see how they would have held up doing deer hides, look like they would snap off where they are hafted from the pressure load.

[Hal Gorges]

Shell tools ar almost un breakable,, I believe, multiple uses such as woodworking an as many other tasks as yo can think of

[Cecilia]

Shell tools indeed almost unbreakable. (Have archeologist’s account !)