Bifacial Knife

[pageben745]

Surface find on a rainy day, not a grate day, drop it on the driveway . I'm not sure about this. did it fall into a mud clay pit thousands of yrs. ago ? And the erosion brought it up to the surface. And now showing what nature can do to it. Or could it be design by man. I see temper in the clay material, with some polish. my eyes tell me the flint has been work. Haven't did any cleaning to it bring it out more. Found Northern Tier Pa. Opinions Welcome.

 

[Relicgrubber]

 

[Garscale]

I wouldn't do anything to it. Would leave it just the way I found it.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Sorry not seeing any signs of it being work as an artifact.

 

[Tdog]

Sorry not seeing any signs of it being work as an artifact.

Agree.

 

[Buckleberry]

Just a rock.

 

[antmike915]

Another vote for "just a rock"

 

[Kantuckkeean]

I see what you’re referring to, but it’s likely natural chipping from tumbling. Keep looking though. They’re out there!

Kindest regards,
Kantuck

 

[Tnmountains]

Do not get discouraged though. All it neded was some edge work and it would have been a great find. Keep looking.

 

[MAMucker]

Confused about the clay tempering and the worked flint statement. Are you saying it’s a flint Bi-faced knife that was baked into a chunk of clay?

 

[Charl]

Looks like it’s just a fragment of a conglomerate, with a pebble embedded in whatever the conglomerate host rock is....

 

[pageben745]

temper-- added crushed material, like grains of quartz, for strength ect. they had different heat methods, sun bake, slow bake with heat stones added to lower temp. which probably wouldn't change color of the flint. Most likely maybe ceremonial use. Yes a biface flint blade knife, that I see that has been work. As far as keep looking , I been looking for 40 yrs. and this is the first questionable item I found and not totally convince one way or the other. Thanks everybody for the input.

 

[Mine Shaft]

What ? lol.