Bi-Concave Gorgets

[dognose]

I found this undrilled Bi-Concave Gorget July 4th, 1988, in the field next to my woods.

These two are Ex Jon Smith from his estate

 

[newnan man]

Very nice!

 

[tamrock]

Where is it believed this slate material was coming from. I've been watching a channel that has all the ever filmed PBS Antiques Roadshows and many episodes going back to the 1990s. Today they ask you don't bring NA artifacts, but this one fella on a show decades ago brought some blades and some type of stone axe which the appraiser gave minimal value. He also had a slate popeye birdstone. I can't remember the assessed value, but it was up there in the thousands. The artifacts were all found years ago by his granddad working the fields on their farm in Indiana if I remember.

 

[dognose]

I understand the slate was deposited here from the glaciers. could be some natural slate in some parts of the state where coal mining is done, stop pits and the like.

some fields are thick with slate chunks and pieces.

I have found more than a few fields where the remains of vert old houses were and often these had slate roofs. the old farms I mowed tge yards back in the early 70s had slate roofs, some had patterns using different colors slate. these old slate roofs remaines can be easily identified as such when compared to natural slate deposits.

 

[dirstscratcher]

I understand the slate was deposited here from the glaciers. could be some natural slate in some parts of the state where coal mining is done, stop pits and the like.

some fields are thick with slate chunks and pieces.

I have found more than a few fields where the remains of vert old houses were and often these had slate roofs. the old farms I mowed tge yards back in the early 70s had slate roofs, some had patterns using different colors slate. these old slate roofs remaines can be easily identified as such when compared to natural slate deposits.

As far as I know Ohio has no naturally occurring slate, it's all glacially deposited. Indianna may be the same situation, but a state geologist could tell you.

 

[CreekSide]

I found this undrilled Bi-Concave Gorget July 4th, 1988, in the field next to my woods.
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These two are Ex Jon Smith from his estate
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Nice examples
I wonder why they had different shapes. The ones found around here are canoe shaped.

 

[tamrock]

I understand the slate was deposited here from the glaciers. could be some natural slate in some parts of the state where coal mining is done, stop pits and the like.

some fields are thick with slate chunks and pieces.

I have found more than a few fields where the remains of vert old houses were and often these had slate roofs. the old farms I mowed tge yards back in the early 70s had slate roofs, some had patterns using different colors slate. these old slate roofs remaines can be easily identified as such when compared to natural slate deposits.

Thanks Dognose. I would've never thought that old farmhouses in the midwest would have ever used slate stone for roofs.

 

[unclemac]

nice recovery, imagine putting the effort into that only for it to break...makes me wonder what swear words that fellow had in his vocabulary.