Is this what I think it is? One the fence

[autographcollector11]

I am having 2nd thoughts about this one. This is from NE Illinois. I have been told that it is a scraper. While it has that look-the stone does not look like typical chert. It has the look of being worked-but the stone gives me pause. It was found on private property that once was a NA site.
What do you think?

 

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[autographcollector11]

​one more picture....

 

[quito]

sure looks like it could be one to me.

 

[Mowwhay]

Are you thinking that it could be a Native American-made gun flint? I've never tried chert of that color in my flintlock, but that would be a good "cabin fever" experiment to conduct!

 

[autographcollector11]

Hmmmm-Certainly not for a gun. I think it is a scraper but wanted to get a 2nd opinion.
It looks a but different burlington chert but I could be wrong.

 

[autographcollector11]

Let me ask this of the group-does this look like chert? It's quite dull with limited percussion ripples. Any idea how it would be made?
Thanks

 

[Charl]

I'm not familiar with lithics from your area. But it certainly was flaked into shape. In my own region, chert is very much a minority lithic. Instead I find flaked artifacts made of quartz, quartzite, argillite, rhyolite, felsite, hornfels, etc. All those lithics would be considered of poorer quality to most cherts/flints/jaspers. But what you are showing certainly seems to be a bifacially flaked artifact. I would not get too hung up on the fact that it might not be chert. I don't know what the material actually is, but it certainly looks artifactual from here......

 

[RGINN]

Might have been heat treated.

 

[autographcollector11]

The more I look at it, it almost appears to be limestone. Were these commonly used as scrapers?

 

[Thunderbolt]

Definitely bi-faced. Nice thin profile in that last pic too. The color looks to be an add-on but I don't know what material it could be made from. The piece itself, probably chert.

 

[monsterrack]

Like the others have said it is an artifact. The type of stone can cover a large area, it could be made from the cortex of a stone from your area.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Small scraper, not all scrappers or artifacts are finely flaked...