🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Hand axe or axe head? Or any other ideas?

[mw44]

Southern West Virginia. Found this out in the apple orchard with my dad in June 2023. On the site, I have found many points, filled multiple mason jars with debitage, a broken axe head, abraders, rubbed hematite, and a few nutting stones.
I don't know what kind of stone but it's not similar to the chert points I've been finding and seems less grainy than the nutting stones I've found.
The thickness of this piece is pretty uniform. The edges have obviously been worked. One face seems like it has been ground smooth. I don't see any notches where it could have been wrapped to secure it as an axe head, so that kind of leads me towards it being a hand axe. But I am only about 1 year into this new obsession of artifact hunting so I am not sure. Any thoughts or info would be greatly appreciated. I can send pics of other finds as well.
By the way it as an awesome moment finding it with my dad!

 

[DizzyDigger]

It almost looks like they started working it, then decided it was not going to suffice for the application.

 

[newnan man]

Post it and your other finds in the North American Artifacts forum. That may be a crude chopper or as Dizzy said, they started it & said nope.

 

[Tony in SC]

I'm with Dizz, I think it's an unfinished piece, Nice find!

 

[geowizard]

Early tool makers were more crude in their tool making. Hard for modern man to think like early man.!
I would propose fleshing tools to prepare animal hides for tanning.

Fun stuff!

- Geowizard

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Looks like unfinished blank piece, could be they didnt like the stone after starting or could be a temporary chopper, a one and done for butchering on location of kill.

 

[opalboy]

One and done hide scraper.

 

[ToddsPoint]

Material is too grainy to be of much use. Coarse grained rocks are weak by their nature. The edges aren’t sharp enough to be useful. It looks like an igneous rock, not flint. I’m guessing this was found in a flint poor area.

 

[russau]

Southern West Virginia. Found this out in the apple orchard with my dad in June 2023. On the site, I have found many points, filled multiple mason jars with debitage, a broken axe head, abraders, rubbed hematite, and a few nutting stones.
I don't know what kind of stone but it's not similar to the chert points I've been finding and seems less grainy than the nutting stones I've found.
The thickness of this piece is pretty uniform. The edges have obviously been worked. One face seems like it has been ground smooth. I don't see any notches where it could have been wrapped to secure it as an axe head, so that kind of leads me towards it being a hand axe. But I am only about 1 year into this new obsession of artifact hunting so I am not sure. Any thoughts or info would be greatly appreciated. I can send pics of other finds as well.
By the way it as an awesome moment finding it with my dad!

Yes that's a feeling / memory that you'll NEVER FORGET!

 

[geowizard]

Material is too grainy to be of much use. Coarse grained rocks are weak by their nature. The edges aren’t sharp enough to be useful. It looks like an igneous rock, not flint. I’m guessing this was found in a flint poor area.

So, what's the point? No pun intended!

What is it made of? How hard is it. Has it been used? Is it a reject tool?

My post was based on "It is a crude tool" - if a tool at all.

Maybe one of a zillion rocks in the world!

- Geowizard

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

So, what's the point? No pun intended!

What is it made of? How hard is it. Has it been used? Is it a reject tool?

My post was based on "It is a crude tool" - if a tool at all.

Maybe one of a zillion rocks in the world!

- Geowizard

My vote is it is either a one time use and toss, or poor quality blank, a reject due to poor material. It is all conjecture, no way to know for sure.

 

[Deftone]

My cousin has one like that. Similar shape and size different stone type. We brought it to the Perryton stone age fair in Perryton, Tx. And were told it was used as a hoe or digging tool.