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I was thinking the illustration of a fishing weight and hook rig looked a little "fishy" to me. Most plummets have a top knob groove that seems too shallow to hold up to the rigors of reeling in a fighting fish of much size? It also seems that plummets are also found in locations where fishing weights would not be expected to be needed, or found.
I am liking the idea that they were some sort of loom weaving weights, as being one of the more plausible hypothesis out there. The thinner, smaller and flat sided plummet designs might play into such thoughts? Cool artifacts and awesome examples posted here !
Have you ever found any around your area ? Personally I have not and can’t think of many local collections I see
Them either
I only have one that I found locally as shown in the photos from the day I found it. Odd story in that I was metal detecting an old home site in one of the fields I surface hunt for artifacts. The home site wasn't actually on one of the several prehistoric sites that I am aware of in that field, and this plummet wasn't visible on the surface of the ground. I only found it by digging up a signal that turned out to be the only Indian head cent I found on that site, and the plummet came up out of the small hole the cent was in. I couldn't believe it, and got so psyched I pretty much stopped metal detecting and started surface hunting for artifacts through the unturned and winter weathered soybean stubble, and found a few other things. I am not sure if I found it where it was left by it's original user(s), or if it was found elsewhere by someone who lived on that historic home site, and then lost it there?
Most of the local collectors that I have seen set up at local shows seem to have a couple plummets in their collections, but not many from what I recall. I think they are considered fairly scarce here on the Delmarva.
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