Check Out My FIRST DRILL

[trevmma]

hey guys wife let me head to the corn forest today after work, when i got there they had chopped down the corn, there was corn everywhere. i was about to turn around when i said to myself, why not give it a shot.well it turned out to be a good day. found my first drill in entering the field, then the 2 others later.also check out my buddies celt, what could the line be.it goes all the way around. thanks

[paleoheadhunter]

nice finds!!Maybe the celt was in the making and the line is a preform guide for the groove.Interesting though.Killer piece too!!HH

[paleoheadhunter]

i forgot to ask.That little side notch point on the left looks like the broken tip might have been reworked into a scraper too.Hard to tell from the pic though.HH

[Cannonman17]

cool stuff- that white point has a classic impact fracture. The line in the celt could be natural- like a vein of slightly different rock or different hardness..

[pickaway]

Nice finds trevma could be just a decoration line on that celt if so id guess it would make it rarer type.

[ohioriver hunter]

hey guys wife let me head to the corn forest today after work, when i got there they had chopped down the corn, there was corn everywhere. i was about to turn around when i said to myself, why not give it a shot.well it turned out to be a good day. found my first drill in entering the field, then the 2 others later.also check out my buddies celt, what could the line be.it goes all the way around. thanks

Super finds Trev,That would have been a dandy drill! Nice looking celt too. I,m not sure about the line,maybe an old plow mark,but a really nice find. Jeff p. s. Below,Ilovedrills!

[trevmma]

yep it has a impact fracture on the other side, well im heading off to flint ridge for the first time.

[pickaway]

Flint ridge? sheet man your going to drive right by where i been huntin i should be out there this morning but 1 to many natty lites kept me in the sack,going out tommorow, enjoy the park.

[Adena_man]

Nice finds Trevmma!

[Johnny X]

Nice finds Trev. The first drill is always the hardest. and that celt is FABULOUS!

xstevenx

[BobTheBaitFish]

I say it's a plow mark. There are creased celts, which larry kinsella discusses at http://www.flintknapper.com/AXE%20ME...0PAGE%202.html. But I don't believe your buddies celt would fit the description.

[trevmma]

there is another celt with the same line all the way around it, but higher towards the poll in midwest artifacts by lar hothem, not the best midwest. they say it was maybe a groove lead, his is not a plow mark though

[BobTheBaitFish]

I didn't know that. Makes sense though.

Mike

[Atlantis0077]

Excellent stuff!!

That is a killer drill....they are hard to come by here, especially completely intact. If I were to venture a guess on the line around the celt I would agree with another opinion...its a natural strata in the stone....I find arrowheads with such lines across them...sometimes the line is translucent when the rest of the piece is opaque. I would imagine the stone had a natural "layer" through it that when the piece was crafted just appears as a line around it....IMO.

Happy Hunting,

Atlantis