Drills

[southfork]

Drills are one of my favorite artifacts show what you have . I'll start with this one I have found a number of Drills over the years always a day maker for me . N. California

 

[Charl]

Did the Mrs. give you heck for missing that first one laying full out?
All very nice.

No, she didn't need to. I gave myself heck, lol....

 

[quito]

One more thing I don’t have many of.

 

[southfork]

I made this snake wood case to display some of my Drills .

 

[digger460]

Man that's a whole lot of drills. Very Nice!

 

[Kantuckkeean]

Geez. My only drills are Dewalts and Milwaukee. You guys suck. Thanks to you all, I’ve been drooling so much that I shorted out my keyboard!

Kidding aside, you guys have some awesome stuff.

Kindest regards,
Kantuck

 

[sandchip]

Here's a few from one site. The little one on the left is about a 1/16" thick and alternately beveled with heavy use wear on the edges toward the tip. I hadn't been collecting that long when I found it and just picked it up because of the oval shape. I left it laying in the bed of my truck for a couple of weeks before I picked it up and started paying attention. It's a wonder that it didn't get lost or broken 'cause it's about the size of a birdpoint and we all know how easy those things get lost.

 

[Tdog]

Largest one looks like a Dalton worked down to a drill from many resharpenings. Maybe broken and salvaged! With a base that big, it likely was much larger when it was 1st stage IMO. Sweeeeeet!

 

[Older The Better]

I wonder sometimes if native people didn’t find old points just like we do and put them to use, like let’s say that is dalton was it used to a nub by dalton people or was it a dalton point lost long ago and found by say a hopewell and used as a ready made tool

 

[arrow86]

I wonder sometimes if native people didn’t find old points just like we do and put them to use, like let’s say that is dalton was it used to a nub by dalton people or was it a dalton point lost long ago and found by say a hopewell and used as a ready made tool

I believe they probably did , I have a few spots on the river I hunt where there’s a lot of overlapping time periods one of the spots an old timer told me he could walk the beach any day of the year and find 10-15 intact points so just think how many were there a few hundred years before that ... I think the only reason they may not have reused them is if they thought maybe it was bad luck or taboo to use again maybe they would re bury them or relocate them

 

[southfork]

This old Basalt Drill is a member of the Great Basin Stemmed Cluster. 9000 - 6000 B.C.

 

[sandchip]

Here's one my daddy found on one of our few trips looking together. By the time I got interested in arrowheads, it was getting tough for him to walk long distances. Looks like it was made from a Savannah River to me. I don't have a copy, but I remember looking at Sun Circles and Human Hands many years ago at the illustration showing the sequence of how the large tube pipes were drilled. It showed drilling a pilot hole with a typical what we call a pencil drill, then opening that up with a self-centering reamer that looked like this one, followed by a bigass flint drill that could be started in the countersink. Showing very heavy wear in all the right places, so who knows?

 

[welsbury]

Sure is worn on the base of that piece. Is other edge similar?

 

[sandchip]

Sure is worn on the base of that piece. Is other edge similar?

Maybe these will help. No real wear on the base. The heaviest is on the shoulders(dot), lessening in the direction of the arrow towards the tip. Equal wear is on both edges shown by the brackets.

 

[welsbury]

I should've said shoulder rather than base. Looks like they could've used it like a reamer. It has seen some heavy use on something

 

[gilmerman]

Most of these drills look like the bases are paleo. They are all beautiful.

 

[southfork]

Surface find N. California foothills . A little polish on the tip from use .

 

[old digger]

Around here it seems that drills are hard to come by. Here are two that I have found, the basalt one was found in two pieces. I found the first section and two years later I checked out the site and found the other half. The other one is the only complete one other that the one I gave to another member here on tnet.

 

[monsterrack]

Got this one about a month ago from a good friend.

 

[StevefromMissouri]

All pfs

 

[southfork]

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All pfs

Very nice now we know way its so hard to find any