Pickaway County OH Finds...

[OH SurfaceHunter]

A couple of Ohio finds that my head huntin friend managed to eyeball....
The blade is unusual in that it is quite thick in the center nearly 1 and 1/4 inch thick. Such a large piece for the crude small base to support. The effigy(?) I threw in to settle an ongoing debate. Effigy or not.

[GL]

Rabbit when facing this way<----
Bird when facing this way---->

[Th3rty7]

If that second piece is uniface I would think that it's a unique side scraper with four notches/ spokeshaves. Is there any evidence of usewear?

[uniface]

OSH -- do you have a name for the material the big hafted knife is made of ?

[creek astronaut]

monster find!looks like a bird to me.parrot?got anymore pics?different angle?thx for sharing your finds

[Tnmountains]

Welcome to T-Net artifacts. That first stemmed piece is beautiful. Second looks like a bird.I think its just a core that looked like a bird or thats what they saw and they probably did a couple strategic strikes to make it more so. Who knows may have been for a child. Very cool whatever it is.
Welcome to a fun site.

TnMountains

[creek astronaut]

not an effigy,you winning the arguement?lol.so when you want to go creekhuntn,see if we cant find us a few more monster blades?

[bravowhiskey]

Killer find and looks in perfect shape

BW

[pickaway]

Thats a bigun.Congrats...

[Atlantis0077]

Morning,

That is one more huge blade. I love the mineralization on it....I hunt a spot that every piece you find has coloration on it like that. As for the effigy...probably just an an accident of manufacture, but it really does look like a bird. For sake of argument, if it were mine it would be a bird effigy....LOL.

Thanks for posting,

Atlantis