✅ SOLVED arrowhead? drill bit?

[mill-Z]

 

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[Steve in PA]

Looks more like a knife than a point or drill.

 

[invent4hir]

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mill-Z, that is one nice find! Since you're an Aspiring Archeologist you may want to check out the Archaeological Institute of America website - if you haven't done so already. In addition to digs, tours, etc. they held some really good webinars - like the 2-part Sutton Hoo.

 

[Fat]

... I think it was a knife, I assume you found in Georgia? Ant mike and others will be along and tell us more. I would like to hear the story about how you found it please..

 

[mill-Z]

Yes, in Georgia. My landlady has a few cotton fields near the Little River. I hunt here daily. And I find at least one piece every time I walk'em. I noticed a few piles of sand out there the other day. Turns out to be some sort of dirtbike track. Upon closer inspection, I noticed flakes everywhere, just like confetti. Most of the pieces I've found have been broken. Then I seen this piece poking out of the ground, and I got excited. I found a few other unbroken pieces as well. None of them are shaped like an arrow, but I can tell they have been shaped to serve a certain purpose. I'm just unsure of what purpose that may be.

 

[invent4hir]

Good way to train your eyes to look for the "needles in a haystack". If you want to know more about the artifact you found, consider posting on this sub-forum North American Indian Artifacts. An alternative would be to send the pictures to a natural history museum in Georgia or even a archeologist department at a university. I'd also include some pictures of the flakes.

If you really want to have some fun, make yourself a screen box & sift a few shovel-fulls of dirt through it to see what might be just below the surface.

 

[mill-Z]

Good way to train your eyes to look for the "needles in a haystack". If you want to know more about the artifact you found, consider posting on this sub-forum North American Indian Artifacts. An alternative would be to send the pictures to a natural history museum in Georgia or even a archeologist department at a university. I'd also include some pictures of the flakes.

If you really want to have some fun, make yourself a screen box & sift a few shovel-fulls of dirt through it to see what might be just below the surface.

This may sound strange, considering I'm an "aspiring archeologist" but... I don't really like to dig. It's exhausting. All the pieces that I've found, have come from the surface. I will admit I've considered a screen box a few times when I've run up on a muddy rockbed with a limited amount of time available to search. It'd be nice to scrape up a couple scoops of rocks and be on my way.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Nice small knife, maybe what we use to call squaw knife.

 

[invent4hir]

This may sound strange, considering I'm an "aspiring archeologist" but... I don't really like to dig. It's exhausting. All the pieces that I've found, have come from the surface. I will admit I've considered a screen box a few times when I've run up on a muddy rockbed with a limited amount of time available to search. It'd be nice to scrape up a couple scoops of rocks and be on my way.

Sounds like a plan (scrape up a couple scoops and be on your way). You can sift through them as time permits.

 

[antmike915]

Literally just saw this, looks like a extremely worn down Pickwick made of heat treated costal plains chert. They got their money's worth out of that one. Nice find; definitely a knife. Would love too see some more of your GA finds