OK ya'll - This is almost the strangest find I've made. I had the state archaeologist look at it and he said it was a river ROCK but not necessarily an artifact. I showed him the fit to the hand and the notch in the end but he wasn't impressed. I'm still not sure. It's just tooooooo coincidental to be a river rock??? ; Soooo, What do Ya'll Think????
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Don't get discouraged Scorpion, I live along Beech Creek and was confvinced that I had found an unfinished stone pipe, and I to was informed by the specialist I know that it was merely a river rock. Now that I have been hunting for 6+ years you will indeed come across every shape size and speciman of "just a rock" you can fathom. But it is still neat whether an artifact or not. Bill
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Thanks ya'll for commenting. Although I've been hunting for a long time I really haven't tried to really analyze or classify any of my finds until recently, when I took some of it to an archaeologist at the National Park. He knows his stuff and I was blown away by the way he could just look at an arrowhead hafting area and tell me what it was. I guess it comes with time and work. I'm up for it.
Pickett/Fentress County, Tn - Any day on this side of the grass is a good day. -Chuck-
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Hey Scorpion,
I'm afraid I'm in agreement with everyone else in that it's just a rock. But who's to say, it wasn't used as it is.
It may have been used to pound out grains like corn or maybe as a hammer stone. Like I said, who knows?
Keep it if you want to.
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