4/30 Ohio Hunt (Pestle and Flint Axe)

Flint-seeker · May 1, 2011

Yesterday, I took "Ohio" (Chuck) to one of my new sites in Butler County, Ohio. This is after about 4 hours of walking the fields. The pestle was actually found along a small creek in the back of the property, but everything else was found in the washed out fields. Unfortunately, I didn't get an in-situ of the pestle (I wasn't convinced it was one until I showed it to Chuck).

Here's a nice in-situ:

Here's the point after being removed:

Chuck had a sharp eye when he spotted this one:

Chuck's small point after being removed:

Chuck's flint axe in-situ:

Flint Axe:

Here's a group shot of all of our finds at the end of the day.

Flint-seeker · May 1, 2011

Detailed pics of the pestle:

Charmin · May 1, 2011

Is that pestle called a 'bell pestle'? That's a really neat find, Au-seeker, as well as the other artifacts! :icon_thumright:

GL · May 1, 2011

Love that pestle. I have a stone with a depression for one of those, but nothing to rest in it for display. That is just really cool, I like that. Thats the kind of everyday village life sort of artifact I love to see. Scrapers and points are neat but sort of a throwaway for the Natives Id wager. Easily broken and used hard so they break a lot, if you cant resharpen it then it is discarded. A pestle is something youd truly miss if you lost it or it fell overboard out of your dugout. What if some guy felt around the creekbottom for hours looking for it before giving up? It would be well cared for and used all day everyday. Imagine how long the last person to use it held it for, 4hrs? 5? Points are beautiful but a pestle is awesome, to me at least.

Bet it took a while to beat a pestle out of a core. It would have to be done just right and mustve been smooth when new or it would hurt to use it right?