Found a celt this morning

[Hot diggity]

I dinged it on one side with a probe & scraped it on the other with my shovel. Should still clean up well. I'll post it cleaned up later. Will give a certain someone some time before he bumps his own posts again anyway. My friend found a massive piece of archaic copper & it's a great example of how they pounded raw copper ore flat, folded over, pounded, folded, pounded etcetera.

 

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[creekhunter]

That is an awesome celt, nice size!

 

[Americus]

Very nice find. Thanks for sharing.

 

[NCPeaches]

Great find! Like the info on the copper too.

 

[bill_wabo]

Nice find, like the folded copper. Thanks for sharing.

 

[SCrocks]

Very nice! Celts are hard to come by around here. Great find

 

[GaRebel1861]

You don't see very many of those turning up very often and your is very nice.

 

[scruggs]

Beautiful artifacts you and your friend found! I'm sure you will be going back to check further! Good luck!

 

[Tnmountains]

Lot of folding and pounding but a lot of work went into a fine shaped celt such as that. Nice hunt.

 

[ptsofnc]

Great finds!

 

[arrow86]

Really nice find looking forward to seeing pics of it cleaned up

 

[Wes213]

Such a cool find. How deep in the ground was it?

 

[captain redbeard]

awesome

 

[Hot diggity]

Thanks for the replies everyone! Much appreciated. Thanks to Glenn C "for sure" for letting me post his copper find. Here is the stuff after a light brushing under water. The celt was surprisingly shallow Wes. Maybe 4 - 5 inches deep. This is the depth I usually just begin to find pottery. I attribute this to it laying flat. There was also a thick cluster of roots under it which "may" have pushed it up. It's 119mm long & 16mm thick. Thanks for looking.

 

[Hot diggity]

This side will definitely be facing down in my case...

 

[Hot diggity]

Also found an arrowhead & thumb scraper. There was considerably more pottery & flakes I won't bother with this time.

 

[Hot diggity]

This one went unpicked by either of us & sat off to the side among rocks during our draft. Very nearly got tossed down into the river. Cleaning it I noticed one edge felt much rougher than the rest of it. A grinding, pounding & or smoothing stone. Neat little bonus.

 

[rock]

Nice find on that any chance of seeing the bit end?

 

[Hot diggity]

The celt or grinding stone? I assume you mean the celt right rock. Sure, gimme a few mins.

 

[Hot diggity]

The natural light is gone & this is the best I could do.