Porphyritic granite Biscuit discoidal

[oryancochran]

PF Jay Co. Indiana

 

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[newnan man]

Looks slightly softer than the biscuits my ex used to make��Nice find.h

 

[rock]

Got a story on it?

 

[oryancochran]

Got a story on it?

I had posted this in a previous reply, different artifact. Was easier to copy and paste.

All my artifacts are surface field finds, All come from with in a 1/4 mile of my house. Been hunting since I was seven, when my dad got my started. Love ground stone tools, I'm founder of NA ground stone artifacts tools and ID group on Facebook. I live in a glacial kame culture area in NE indiana and many of the tools and artifacts I find are from that period. My main hunting site I call the double knoll, 90% of my finds have came from those two glacial kame hills I hunt. So far this year I've hauled home 50+ Side by side 1000## loads of stone from the field. And cleaned, sorted and inspected every piece. I'm now studying utilized cobble tools and artifacts, and how there so easily overlooked. I'm big on ground stone identification uniformity throughout the different regions, and identification of tools with no names, but show use wear or pecking, grinding or flaking. Lots of utilitarian artifacts are overlooked because people see low monetary value, but the real value to everyone is historic. And will help us all learn to understand the natives daily lives.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Are you 100% sure that is a Discoidal? It looks like a glacially rounded stone to me which would make sense since you are hunting Glacial Kames. Can you show better pics please? I'd also like to see all of your Stone Tools. 50,000 lbs of stone is quite a bit.

 

[unclemac]

how are you identifying this as not natural? What discerning characteristics do you see?

 

[oryancochran]

how are you identifying this as not natural? What discerning characteristics do you see?

Surfaces are highly polished show polishing striations.

 

[oryancochran]

 

[oryancochran]

all but pink dots found this year, honestly easier to join my FB group with over 750 of my personal pictures in one album, it's a public group to view. Don't have to join. https://www.facebook.com/groups/GroundStoneArtifacts/

 

[oryancochran]

Surface if disc has been hammered and ground into shape.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Can you show more pictures please?

These are all Discs I have personally found in my area.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

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PF Jay Co. Indiana

Sorry, I'm seeing natural stone, not artifact.

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[Charl]

Sorry, I'm seeing natural stone, not artifact.

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I agree. Gamestones/discoidals are usually ground smooth....

 

[P.ALLEN]

Don't mean to let you down, but it's more than likely Glacial Till.

 

[oryancochran]

I agree. Gamestones/discoidals are usually ground smooth....

Grim I see you liked and agreed with this yet none of yours you posted are ground smooth? It's a fact that these come in every shape from highly polished to rough discs. The worst perpetuated fact about discoidals is they have to be polished or have to have a cup or dish. Both are untrue, it has been the favor of author's for years to only publish the prettiest examples. To think there isn't pre forms, or lesser used examples or even ones made for practice, or maybe a child wanting to be like dad. Mine has been hammered into this disc shape and top and bottom flat surfaces are ground to a very smooth feeling polish. This may be what many ideas of glacial kame stones is, but this is not true if my area if searching, nor in the stone I've brought home, I have around 20 smooth round or disc shaped stones I've found in my searching area, none with the finish our shape of this. Let alone with the surfaces having been worked. In my area of northern Indiana we find many of this type that are not the defined examples most are used to seeing.

 

[oryancochran]

Are you 100% sure that is a Discoidal? It looks like a glacially rounded stone to me which would make sense since you are hunting Glacial Kames. Can you show better pics please? I'd also like to see all of your Stone Tools. 50,000 lbs of stone is quite a bit.

 

[oryancochran]

Are you 100% sure that is a Discoidal? It looks like a glacially rounded stone to me which would make sense since you are hunting Glacial Kames. Can you show better pics please? I'd also like to see all of your Stone Tools. 50,000 lbs of stone is quite a bit.

 

[oryancochran]

bow drill socket with the pecked finger holds

 

[oryancochran]

Some of the hundreds of close up pictures I've taken of grinding and polishing marks, all NA, all on tools I've found, all same site Jay co. Ind.

 

[unclemac]

i encourage y'all to read the whole thing...but scroll down to "glacial scaring"....either way,interesting read.

https://forums.arrowheads.com/index...facts-gc99/124102-natural-accidental-breakage