Celt?

[NJKLAGT]

I don't know why I didn't post this here initially, haha

Is this a celt? Is it greenstone? What can you tell me about it?

I have a thread marked as solved in the "What Is It?" forum, but wouldn't mind your input as well! Thanks!


NJ

 

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[NJKLAGT]

from your other post...were you thinking this was modern made stone chisle? do you have any examples of those?

My stonemason friend said he used "stone chisels to cut stone" that looked "identical", but he ended up showing me two very different steel chisels. The way he worded things had me thinking that the chisels themselves were made of stone.

 

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[rock]

I know the material now and will try and spell it but dont expect a lot. Dictrolite well I think its close even my phone wont auto correct that to the correct spelling.

 

[captain redbeard]

Nice celt for sure! I have managed to pull several celts out of a field here, This was the first one and I wondered on some of them if they were used both as chisels and celts as a couple look like they were pounded quite a bit on the back ends. It appears to be made of the same material, though I never figured it out myself, but it was found in cayuga county little north of cayuga lake which doesn't look far from you.

 

[unclemac]

Nice celt for sure! I have managed to pull several celts out of a field here, This was the first one and I wondered on some of them if they were used both as chisels and celts as a couple look like they were pounded quite a bit on the back ends. It appears to be made of the same material, though I never figured it out myself, but it was found in cayuga county little north of cayuga lake which doesn't look far from you.

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i have used a screwdriver as a hammer more than once...i am sure the other side of a hafted celt could have been too

 

[rock]

Ive read where some Celts were used as wedges to help split wood and if that is true then it would of been hit on the end with maybe a hammer stone.