An ax or something else ?

[Johnny Bravo]

I'm rather clueless to what these are it seems like it's an ax, but I'm not sure because I found so many is such a small area. I found these in a small gravel bar that's about 15' x 30', I found both copper and stone in the area. The first two are about 3" long x 2" wide, the next two are around 3 1/2" long x 2 1/2" wide. The funny thing is that the bigger ones have a shallower notch and have a chip on the back side where it's notched on then thinner side of the rock. I have found another little one that's around 3x2" and a lager ax that was notched all the way around about a half mile form where I found these, but I can't see an ax being such a common thing that I found 6 so far. Anyone have an idea of if these are just an ax or if it's something else ?

 

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[d2]

Looks like a celt but could have been a hoe or something. Nice regardless of what it is...d2

 

[unitas]

I've found several of these over the years. They both appear to be net weights. Were they found near water?

 

[Johnny Bravo]

Yep they were found by water, maybe 100 yards off a river bank. The area had been dug before by some people that did a very sloppy job and left a lot of stuff behind cause they had no idea, so I'm trying to save whats left before they hit it again. I'm thinking it was a work area, so far found in the area was a large number of a deep red quartzite flake, copper knife and a knife blank, conical copper point, and a good amount of unworked copper, also found some type of quartzite point there too.

 

[unitas]

Yep they were found by water, maybe 100 yards off a river bank. The area had been dug before by some people that did a very sloppy job and left a lot of stuff behind cause they had no idea, so I'm trying to save whats left before they hit it again. I'm thinking it was a work area, so far found in the area was a large number of a deep red quartzite flake, copper knife and a knife blank, conical copper point, and a good amount of unworked copper, also found some type of quartzite point there too.

They must not really know what they are doing or maybe a couple of net weights aren't interesting enough for them to keep. I disagree with them whole heartedly if that's the case. Nice artifacts, keep going back to pick up their "junk".

 

[creekhunter]

I agree about the Net Weights, and if thats those folks "trash" they need to leave that are alone all for you!

 

[SimonLakeSub]

Net sinkers,,,, Nice find......


Regards Simon.......

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Defintely Net Sinker Weights and nice ones at that.

 

[Johnny Bravo]

Thanks for all the replies. Wow net weights that's pretty cool I would have never thought that. Looks like my chances of finding a copper fish hook just went way down.