Copper Celt

[bfratta1981]

Native Copper Celt found it in Pa its from 1200AD!!!!

 

[oldsalty19]

unique find for PA

 

[CrazySlasher]

How did you date it?

 

[lost hunter]

 

[wwwtimmcp]

outstanding find, I would be doing a major happy dance.

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Very nice find, don't see very much Indian native copper culture finds found. Congrats and HH, Mike

 

[CoinandRelicMan]

Can someone please repost the pictures (in a small scaled version) that are larger than 200k-ish so that I can see them. My dial-up will not bring them in. thanks CARM

 

[bfratta1981]

How did you date it?

I had it looked at by a the owner of artifacts.com Kevin Dowdy, he said its from the Mississipian Time around 1200AD or so.

 

[CRUSADER]

 

[ryaan21]

Great find!!! And you are right, only rich people donate. I sold mine to a museum.

 

[arrowduc]

I nominate Banner. It is a rare find any where.

 

[oldsalty19]

very unique in PA.......HH

 

[Backbacon]

Could be older than anyone thinks?

 

[GTzer]

Cool artifact!
So was it found in a Native American type site or a drop in a settled area?

 

[Brian C.]

There was something like that found here in Canada, the finder said it was an axe the one he found, nice find for sure.

 

[John Boy]

Very very nice find.unbelievable.

 

[romeo-1]

That's a grail find right there!!!

 

[Nutriasub]

Very amazing item!

 

[granthansen]

What a find! I say that should be up in the banner for sure. You don't see many of those.

 

[bfratta1981]

Thanks a lot everyone! It is my best find yet, it was funny cause at first I thought it was a junk piece of farm equipment, then I did research and brought it to the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commision in Harrisburg,Pa. I met with the Senior Curator of Archeology, Kurt W. Carr, Ph.D. He and 2 other colleagues concluded it was a copper Celt/adze and that it was in the range of 2-4000 YEARS OLD!!! He asked if I would donate it to the museum, but I declined.