Banded slate bannerstone, gorget and pendant preforms

[oryancochran]

All PFs, Jay Co. Indiana. Red elliptical gorget, half drilled pendant, winged banner,
rectangular gorget and ball banner were all found this year. Butterfly banner half,
Celt preform, flaked trade blank are from previous years. Perfect examples of pecking
on these pieces. Preform or study pieces have became my favorite thing to find.

 

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[Twitch]

Wow, really nice collection there. Welcome to the site. Looking forward to seeing more of what you find. I couldn't find a piece of slate if my life depended on it. Congrats.

Thanks.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Nice collection of Slate pieces.

 

[oryancochran]

Thanks.

 

[oryancochran]

 

[oryancochran]

View attachment 1459361 I have a few thousand pieces of banded slate!

Wow, really nice collection there. Welcome to the site. Looking forward to seeing more of what you find. I couldn't find a piece of slate if my life depended on it. Congrats.

Thanks.

 

[crj1968]

Sweet ! I love that pendant.... I think i'd wear it, just because it's awesome

 

[oryancochran]

Sweet ! I love that pendant.... I think i'd wear it, just because it's awesome

Only drilled half way from one side...

 

[crj1968]

Oh I see....I didn't realize that was the same piece. Dang, that's crazy...

Oh wait...the one with the two holes on one side has only one hole on the other?

 

[oryancochran]

Oh I see....I didn't realize that was the same piece. Dang, that's crazy...

Oh wait...the one with the two holes on one side has only one hole on the other?

Yes this type drill from both sides, still needed one last hole drilled, if you look closely you can see touch mark from drill bit where they were planning on drilling.

 

[crj1968]

I see. Interesting...makes you wonder why it wasn't finished. Great stuff.

 

[arrow86]

Really nice stuff ..... Are these all surface field finds ? Would love to hear story behind the fonds

 

[oryancochran]

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.

 

[creekhunter]

Love em, you are in the slate hot area!

 

[tnmudman]

I love what you said about utilitarian tools ocochran i think these type of artifacts dont get the attention they deserve, they help fill out or paint the picture of how the native Americans lived. I look forward to seeing more of your collection and recent finds, thanks for sharing them and your insight.

 

[monsterrack]

Those are super finds

 

[CHUDs]

Awesome! Thanks for the close ups on the drilled holes and the pecking. I'd love to see more utilized cobbles...I seems to be what I key on when I go looking.