Hi all, thanks for reading. I am new to the forum but like everything I have seen so far! I've been walking various creek beds north of Houston looking for petrified wood and the proverbial "arrow heads" lol. Admittedly I have been doing it without any real knowledge of what I have been looking for in terms of artifacts, and with no success. Some time ago I picked up this interesting piece of petrified wood (I assume) that seemed to "be something". The more I thought about and looked at it, the more I thought it was not randomly formed. I've done a little research online and identified some interesting attributes to the piece, but want to know what y'all think...
The piece is relatively polished/shiny on both sides while none of the other petrified wood pieces I pick up ever are. It appears to have large flakes removed on the front side, with relatively worn "ridges" between the missing pieces. On the lower left (relative to the front view) there are a series of small uniform chips removed along the edge that you can see when viewing the back. There seems to be a face on the left (and I think the whole thing resembles a fish, lol!
). The concave shape really seems to feel nice in the right hand for using the "serrated" part. I don't know, I'll shut up now and show you the pics, lol!
Here are the front, back, top, and bottom. The shot of the bottom shows the edge worked into a sharper point (on the left third of the object in that photo).
Here are two closer-up pics of the chipped/serrated section (lower right on the piece). In the second photo the shadow almost shows the shape of the edge better than the object does in this shot. When I examine it closely, there are 5 or 6 well-spaced (but touching) chips along that bottom edge and the adjacent right hand side.
And here are a few other photos where I tried to show more detail and catch the light differently to show surfaces better, including the "face":
Thanks in advance for your thoughts! Either way, it's clear from some recent internet searches that I need to be looking for more than just "arrow heads" - as in knives, scrapers, and lots other stuff I may be passing over
I feel an new obsession (er, hobby) coming on!!!
The piece is relatively polished/shiny on both sides while none of the other petrified wood pieces I pick up ever are. It appears to have large flakes removed on the front side, with relatively worn "ridges" between the missing pieces. On the lower left (relative to the front view) there are a series of small uniform chips removed along the edge that you can see when viewing the back. There seems to be a face on the left (and I think the whole thing resembles a fish, lol!
). The concave shape really seems to feel nice in the right hand for using the "serrated" part. I don't know, I'll shut up now and show you the pics, lol!Here are the front, back, top, and bottom. The shot of the bottom shows the edge worked into a sharper point (on the left third of the object in that photo).
Here are two closer-up pics of the chipped/serrated section (lower right on the piece). In the second photo the shadow almost shows the shape of the edge better than the object does in this shot. When I examine it closely, there are 5 or 6 well-spaced (but touching) chips along that bottom edge and the adjacent right hand side.
And here are a few other photos where I tried to show more detail and catch the light differently to show surfaces better, including the "face":
Thanks in advance for your thoughts! Either way, it's clear from some recent internet searches that I need to be looking for more than just "arrow heads" - as in knives, scrapers, and lots other stuff I may be passing over
I feel an new obsession (er, hobby) coming on!!!
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