Hello guys and gals I recently acquired some artifacts and this was among them. It looks like a broken Celt that was being reduced once again into a useful artifact. But what?
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The two spots on the the opposing side from the words London Ont. are glue.It has a lot of pecking on it. I wonder why they gave up? Perhaps it is finished but what could it have been? A hard stone with a tight grain.TN formerly CT Visit our store http://stores.arrowheads.com/store.p...m-Trading-Post
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Yes, it absolutely looks like a hardstone celt or adz preform. I've made 2 celts,and 2 axes using peck and grind, and that piece is certainly being pecked. Looks like he got a few hours in and either lost it or something else came up. Just a slightly educated guess but I think he was a quarter to maybe a third of the way into the project.Central Virginia
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Hi Matt. Without a well defined bit end it's hard to say what it was or what it was intended to be if not finished. It does look like a celt of some sort. I kinda think maybe an adz, but who knows? The lithic is not one that I ever found in my old hunting grounds of N. AL & Mid TN.Last edited by sailorjoe; 09-20-2019, 07:05 PM.
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That looks like one that’s unfinished to me, and a very cool one at that. Like maybe they had been working on it for fortyleven years and then maybe they died or gave up on it.?Wandering wherever I can, mostly in Eastern Arkansas, always looking down.
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