I'm pretty sure this isn't a native American Indian artifact

[StoneHunter]

Hello,

Recently, while looking through the buckets of English flint I've collected from the shores of the Potomac river, I came across this piece. As a novice flint knapper, I recognized the pattern of flake removal to form a cutting or chopping edge. The patina of the worked area indicates this is not a recently worked piece of stone. Considering the time frame in which English merchant sailing ships were engaged in commerce with the colonies, I don't think it plausible that this artifact was the work of an American Indian? If I'm correct, then this neolithic artifact was collected in England to be used as ballast in a ship and eventually dropped in a river in the new world.

Ralph

 

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[MAMucker]

The first batch of photos is of a handful of whole and busted ballast flint nodules that I picked up along the shoreline of Plymouth Bay this year. As for size, these are consistent with what I typically see. You can see that the material is all similar. It is also important to understand that flint is not a native material.





The second photo series is of a very recent low tide find. It’s a heavily patinated and sand polished gun flint made of the same flint as the ballast material.






The 3rd is also a gun flint found a few years ago further upland in the same Bay Area. It is also made of the same flint material minus the heavy patina. It has no use damage.





I believe this material was used by the colonists and settlers as needed.

 

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