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Kentucky point

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Show us some hard-stone!

10-03-2018, 12:48 PM

After witnessing the success of my Whats your favorite point survey, and Broken Arrow's knives and heart breaker surveys, I decided to start a hard-stone show and tell. Here you can show of any Native American hard-stone artifacts you want:

Axes
Celts
Grinding bowls
Birdstones
Carved stone pipes
Bannerstones
etc.

Ya'll can post as many as you wish. Don't be shy about it: As dinged, dented, cracked and rubbed as it may be, it is still an artifact, and we would like to see it!

I'll kick this off.

My first, and only hard-stone artifact so far.

"The education of a man is never completed until he dies." Robert E. Lee
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10-04-2018, 02:56 PM

I mean it: Fishnet sinkers, Ground points, effigy's, it doesn't matter! Post it!

"The education of a man is never completed until he dies." Robert E. Lee
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10-04-2018, 03:29 PM

A gouge from Rhode Island!

Personal find. A tool used to hollow out dug out canoes, and perform other woodworking tasks. Found in the company of a great friend this spring!

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Can’t find em sitting on the couch; unless it’s in a field
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Kentucky point commented

10-04-2018, 04:33 PM

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Awesome! I have never heard of one until now. That's cool!
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10-04-2018, 05:23 PM

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Kentucky point commented

10-04-2018, 06:07 PM

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Wow! Those are epic finds! I love that plummet! Killer!

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TN mud commented

10-06-2018, 12:29 PM

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Killer finds!
Any chance you have a pic of the 3rd artifact from the front? I’d like to see how they carved/gouged it out around the “face” for secure halting. What do you think of all the other marks on it?
I only ask because I have a very similar piece.

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10-09-2018, 10:47 AM

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Wow Tom ur in the axe head club? That thing is mad cool...
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10-04-2018, 08:06 PM

By the way, if you have any discodials or adzes, please show them too. I don't know what they are.

"The education of a man is never completed until he dies." Robert E. Lee
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10-04-2018, 09:11 PM

Chipped dalton adze. This piece has great use wear on both faces. Gramly describes three different types of bifacially flaked adzes. One is a pointed-end-adze that is the rarest of the three. They have a working bit on one end and taper to a point on the opposite end.
This is an example of that style.
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Stagger Lee/ SE Missouri
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10-04-2018, 09:13 PM

full grooved axe. Groovy ☺
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Broken Arrow commented

10-05-2018, 06:26 PM

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Ethan, it wasn't dignified at all.

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redrocks commented

10-05-2018, 06:35 PM

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Belated congrats on that axe .. unreal man I'd flip out if I found that

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Broken Arrow commented

10-05-2018, 06:54 PM

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Thanks, Red. I kinda did flip out, lol.
Here is a link to the original thread.

Full grooved axe!!! - ArrowHeads.com

https://forums.arrowheads.com/forum/general-discussion-gc5/show-and-tell-–-your-site-finds-and-in-situs-gc8/301441-full-grooved-axe

So me and the kids went out this evening. Walking the rows, about 20 minutes in to our 1 hour walk I spotted this.it was about 7 rows over and just barely exposed.
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10-04-2018, 09:15 PM

hematite celt
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TN mud commented

10-05-2018, 04:50 PM

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what is your thoughts on all the grooves?

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Broken Arrow commented

10-05-2018, 05:40 PM

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Thanks, Ethan. That color is a product of iron stain.
TN, the grooves are scars from the plow. It tangled with many discs over the years before I rescued it.

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10-06-2018, 12:31 PM

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Gotcha
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10-04-2018, 11:26 PM

A cache of 3 adze. Found in Ct., and posted to the forum years ago by a visitor. Think he called the effigy adze a bear.....

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TN mud commented

10-05-2018, 04:48 PM

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Now that's an artifact! It represents a different animal on the left side than the right side.

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Notarelichunter commented

11-11-2018, 09:41 AM

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Awesome, that is wild.

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SurfaceHunter commented

11-12-2018, 09:41 AM

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Thats something you dont see every day
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10-05-2018, 07:34 AM

woodland chert chipped adze about the exact same size and shape of the shell adzes we find. Hafted on a crooked stick.

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10-05-2018, 06:57 PM

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That's sweet, I'm surprised by how thin it is. Nice shell adzes too.
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10-07-2018, 09:37 PM

Really cool artifacts so far, I hope it keeps going. Here's my coolest one.

And one from Ebay, these have been posted a few times.
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Kentucky point commented

10-08-2018, 06:42 AM

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Wow! What is the top one? Abrader stone? Cool!

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CMD commented

10-08-2018, 09:57 AM

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The top one is known as a sinew stone, though it likely had more to do with knapping activity then sinew. But sinew stone is the technical name. Their true use has been debated here on the forum....

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11-12-2018, 09:42 AM

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If you cant find them buy them. Looks like the real deal to me
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10-08-2018, 06:46 AM

Nice

SW Connecticut
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10-08-2018, 10:01 AM

Mano and Metate and a Mortar and Pestle N. California .

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Kentucky point commented

10-08-2018, 10:43 AM

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Woooow! The second one is killer!

We call them grinders and milling bowls around here.

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SurfaceHunter commented

11-12-2018, 09:43 AM

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Dennis you should show your yard display, its amazing
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10-09-2018, 09:55 AM

Full groove axe found by my dad in VA.

Milling bowl found in PA and grinder found in KY.

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"The education of a man is never completed until he dies." Robert E. Lee
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Kentucky point commented

10-09-2018, 10:37 AM

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I swear I saw the notches for an axe on a gravel bar in the Scioto river. But we just had rain and more is coming. I just pray it won't be washed away.

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redrocks commented

10-09-2018, 10:41 AM

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Oh man u been talking about that for a week....go get it

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Kentucky point commented

10-09-2018, 10:46 AM

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My dad is working today, my mom works at home, and we're having company tomorrow, followed by an inch of rain. It really is annoying. Can't win. :-(
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10-10-2018, 06:51 PM

My little family of pestles..momma pestle...baby pestle and poppa pestle....the green hardstone one which is the best

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Kentucky point commented

10-10-2018, 09:22 PM

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Wow! those are huge! I love that big one!

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SurfaceHunter commented

11-12-2018, 09:44 AM

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Sweet finds. I havent found a single roller pestle most here are cobble grinder types, very nice

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redrocks commented

11-12-2018, 02:32 PM

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Thanks surface hunter...that roller pestle is my prized hardstone piece

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