Could this be a small thumb scraper?

[TXCreekWalker]

After all this rain, of course it was a good, cool day to take a creek walk. Found this on a gravel bar, the same where a few other pieces have been found. But, if you know me much from my other posts, I have a hard time with confusing creek chatter with worked edges. If it is anything, I think it would be a small thumb scraper.

Dallas County, Texas.

 

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[CreekSide]

Looks like a piece of something

 

[magua]

After all this rain, of course it was a good, cool day to take a creek walk. Found this on a gravel bar, the same where a few other pieces have been found. But, if you know me much from my other posts, I have a hard time with confusing creek chatter with worked edges. If it is anything, I think it would be a small thumb scraper.

Dallas County, Texas.
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It’s been worked. So you have something. Good eye to catch that!

 

[unclemac]

right size and shape, poorly crafted

 

[magua]

right size and shape, poorly crafted

Gotta start somewhere! 😊 I joke that some of these holy men that did these petroglyphs were shite artists! But it wasn’t like you had an eraser.

Some of these scrapers were arrowheads that broke and they worked them down to use as other tools. Let’s hope that he wasn’t done working on this scraper.

 

[Older The Better]

The first pic looks like it’s complete, second and third I’m having a hard time figuring out if it’s broken or just the lighting.

 

[TXCreekWalker]

Interesting. Thank you everyone. A poorly made tool sparks my imagination. I wonder if they were learning or if it was made in haste during a storm or frigid weather. Other artifacts that I have found in the same gravel bar and along the same creek have what I would describe as hastily made or clunky craftsmanship to them. The only piece I have found that was one you could describe as finely crafted compared to this one was another thumb scraper. I made a post about that one a while back, but I will post an image here for comparison. Both were found just about 200 feet away from each other.

 

[unclemac]

there are a lot of hastily made...to be used once....tossed aside....scrapers out there.

 

[ToddsPoint]

That’s some really pretty light blue flint. What county did you find that in?

 

[TXCreekWalker]

That’s some really pretty light blue flint. What county did you find that in?

The lighting of the photo is off. The color is actually a light gray. But how great would that be if it really was a light blue?