Experienced Artifact Hunter's Opinions.

[Treasure_Hunter]

Opinions from experienced artifact hunters.

Here is another creek find, just as it was found, found in the late 90s in Mid-Mo

 

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[Red-Coat]

Looks to me like an "omarolluk" rather than an artefact.

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[Treasure_Hunter]

Looks to me like an "omarolluk" rather than an artefact.

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That is what I thought when I found it, but the perfectly flat one side is what made me pick it
up and bring it home. It is so smooth.

 

[CreekSide]

We don’t have Omar’s but to me it looks like a geode that was utilized by a ancient person

 

[Older The Better]

You mean like these from se Kansas? I’ve never decided if natural or not, if native best guess was a cap/cup for a bow drill.

 

[newnan man]

I would have kept them too. Tough call, but that flat side doesn't look natural.

 

[dirstscratcher]

I think it's possible that started life as a concretion in sandstone. It also looks like it could have been utilized as a small paint pot. The flat surface doesn't really look natural to me, but it's only a guess. Some day if I can find it, I'll post photos of a similar size concretion with both halves with the center still in it. It split open like a clam when I found it, apparently from freeze-thaw cycle..

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

I think it's possible that started life as a concretion in sandstone. It also looks like it could have been utilized as a small paint pot. The flat surface doesn't really look natural to me, but it's only a guess. Some day if I can find it, I'll post photos of a similar size concretion with both halves with the center still in it. It split open like a clam when I found it, apparently from freeze-thaw cycle..

I knew it once started as a concretion when I first found it, I found them fairly often, it is the one flat smooth side at a perfect 90° angle that really caught my attention to pick it up and keep it, It just seems odd. Only a maybe...

I did find lots of nice artifacts in the same general area. I hunted several miles of that creek that had camp sites over the centuries. Lots of artifacts in Missouri.