Is This A Copper Point?

[mick56]

I found this today while metal detecting a field in Central Wis, is it a copper point?

 

[Backbacon]

Looks like a Rat Tail Spearhead to me or maybe a small Knife. Congrats on the Archaic Copper Culture piece that you have found.

 

[rock]

Now that is actually what I would guess a ancient piece of copper would look like if I found it.

 

[yakker]

Point or knife blade for sure. Great stuff! HH! Yakker

 

[watercolor]

Yes, that is a copper point! As backbacon suggested. . . awesome find!

Venturing a guess at 3,000- 5,000-years old. In your neck of the woods there
was a lot of "float" copper deposited by Wisconsin glaciation about 10,000-years ago.
Native Americans collected pieces of this deposited float copper and cold & hot hammered
these into basic utilitarian items.

Do not try to clean it. . . it's best left as-is.

Again, wonderful recovery

 

[WhiteCountyPaleo]

My guess is a very early knife blade, possibly French?

 

[Backbacon]

My guess is a very early knife blade, possibly French?

Nope, this is from a time way before the French set foot here.

 

[flakebiter]

Copper Culture for sure.
Looks older than the oldest documented stuff I've seen.
Of course, that could be due to local soil variations.
Who knows?
In every case, TOO COOL!