Copper Culture Beach Produces....Not Much

[WawaDuane]

A less than productive day at the old copper culture beach today. The penny I found hardly puts fuel in the big Hemi but everyday can't be Jesuit Rings and silver coins. It's always a nice day to wade in the lake enjoying summer.

Old button that fell through my water scoop a thousand times.



The afternoons finds.



Some weird iron thing and the third broken light bulb of the same design I've found in the water.



A few pieces of old copper.



Not sure if this just old copper or if it's really old copper.

 

[1goodflake]

Is that a little conical point there on the big copper preform/sheet/flake?

 

[WawaDuane]

Is that a little conical point there on the big copper preform/sheet/flake?

Yes I think it is....I wondered the same thing myself. Think that larger piece is a preform piece from the same time period....cause I don't know.

 

[mcl]

Awesome copper finds, definitely look worked/Native to me. Nice job.

 

[1goodflake]

Yeah that's definitely a preform or a blank. I have several examples of crude "flakes" or "sheets" of copper I find with finished pieces. Yours is extremely big!!

 

[Plumbata]

Nice finds, the worked sheet looks copper-culture, with the lamination and "worm tracks" of zones that underwent different rates of decay/conversion to carbonate.