Canoe anchor?

[Blackstone81]

Found in  Susquehanna  last year
just found after the thaw in the yard
Anything or Im just imagining things up again
Lol
Thanks

[JoshinMO]

That look's like an axe that hasn't been finished. Nice.

[OnewiththewilD]

it looks like something, they do look like waterworn grooves. how heavy is it? maybe not a canoe anchor, maybe an anchor stone to a fish net? that would make sense along the river too. just a guess...

[SDhunter]

I see the groove,  but not sure what was intended.  Looks like an artifact though.

[Blackstone81]

it weighs about 37 #  >  i did find in area where i was told there used to be fish traps
.at least thats what my pap says. and if you know the that part of river around bainbridge, its not very deep.
needless to say i think whatever its for it definitley had a rope fastened to it.

[JoshinMO]

Look's like a monster axe to me. There have been some large ones.

[CMD]

At 37 pounds and looking like that, I'd go with weight of some sort. This old thread has a couple of very large weights for comparison. One with two notches, one with three. Biggest is close to 80 pounds however. I don't think that was destined to be an axe as it would take a month to thin a bit on that thing. I don't think they would select a rock that thick for an axe, way too much work IMHO...

http://arrowheads.com/index.php/forums/what-did-i-find/66683-stone-anchors?start=15

[JoshinMO]

OK, reason i mentioned that is because when i visited collinsville show a few years ago there was a local named anthony, he had acquired a very large "axe", he called it a "camp axe" and said that they were left at camps. I can see the work with bringing it up for a forward swing, big axes may not be as useful as smaller ones so not sure.
Kind of has the shape though, like the weights in link. :dunno:

[CMD]

JoshinMO wrote:

OK, reason i mentioned that is because when i visited collinsville show a few years ago there was a local named anthony, he had acquired a very large "axe", he called it a "camp axe" and said that they were left at camps. I can see the work with bringing it up for a forward swing, big axes may not be as useful as smaller ones so not sure.
Kind of has the shape though, like the weights in link. :dunno:

  Yep, that's true. A camp axe is a large axe, called such because, rather then carry them from seasonal camp to seasonal camp, they just stashed them at one location, usually the main camp. Can't rule it out. My wife found a camp axe that weighs 8 pounds. Used as a sledgehammer, and 8 pounds is standard today. Plenty big enough to be a camp axe. You could be right, but that's a hellava lot of hardstone to peck and grind a sharp bit on. 37 pounds is a lot of weight to start with, but what do I really know? Weight seemed a better choice, but opinions are cheap, including my own.

[JoshinMO]

CMD, Thanks, but your opinion I appreciate. Between 8 and 37 pounds is quite a bit.