How many do you need to keep

[CreekSide]

Well I’m starting to be more selective on these types of artifacts. I’ve found a few over the years. I am still looking for better examples for my frame and will trade the ugly ones out as I find better ones. I haven’t found any hard stone yet this year. On the table I have nutters, grinders, divot stones, Celt pieces, handheld small metates and some idk but show work and probably some anvils. In hand is my best net weight
Some Hoes in the frame to.

 

[robertk]

How many do you keep? Umm... all of them?

 

[newnan man]

I keep everything. Nice stuff goes in glass, junk around plants outside.

 

[Blackfoot58]

My lesser items go to the grandkids to keep them interested. They will get it all eventually.

 

[CreekSide]

I have many divot stones. I understand the double divot one on each face being a hammer stone but what would be the single divot style of been used for? I have 2 single ones. One is a hard stone but the other is a schist. Grey is the schist very smooth on the grey but little rough on the red one which is probably a quartzite. Anyone have any ideas I’d be interested in hearing.

 

[CreekSide]

I keep everything. Nice stuff goes in glass, junk around plants outside.

Any experience with the divot stones? Might be a Georgia thing but if you know the uses I’d like to hear.

 

[newnan man]

Your two pictured show use wear but I've no clue what they were for or how they were used. Many divot stones people post are natural stones, divots caused by water.

 

[CreekSide]

Your two pictured show use wear but I've no clue what they were for or how they were used. Many divot stones people post are natural stones, divots caused by water.

I found almost all of these in one location some creek some field. Couple of Adze blades in the picture to.
On the divot stones they are interesting but nobody really has positive feedback on their uses. Just speculation and theories. I did find one possible Roller Pestle this year. I t

 

[Kona Koma]

Well I’m starting to be more selective on these types of artifacts. I’ve found a few over the years. I am still looking for better examples for my frame and will trade the ugly ones out as I find better ones. I haven’t found any hard stone yet this year. On the table I have nutters, grinders, divot stones, Celt pieces, handheld small metates and some idk but show work and probably some anvils. In hand is my best net weight
Some Hoes in the frame to.

Wow! What a collection.

 

[CreekSide]

Your two pictured show use wear but I've no clue what they were for or how they were used. Many divot stones people post are natural stones, divots caused by water.

We don’t have Omar’s in Georgia. I could see the quartzite being a cap stone being found in a campsite but the schist one I found within feet from where I found my gorget that is also made from schist so it’s a total mystery to me. I can’t imagine what they were using that softer grainy material for to leave a divot. The material could of been used for an abrader but it only has one divot and no other scratches from use. I believe it would be useless as a cap stone.

 

[Older The Better]

Nice collection of some of the other stuff, I’d keep everything personally but I have the same situation with rock hounding, trying to be more and more selective of what comes home otherwise my floor would probably collapse from all the rock… I like the sharing with the grandkids idea though.

 

[CreekSide]

Nice collection of some of the other stuff, I’d keep everything personally but I have the same situation with rock hounding, trying to be more and more selective of what comes home otherwise my floor would probably collapse from all the rock… I like the sharing with the grandkids idea though.

No grandkids unfortunately

 

[antmike915]

I have many divot stones. I understand the double divot one on each face being a hammer stone but what would be the single divot style of been used for? I have 2 single ones. One is a hard stone but the other is a schist. Grey is the schist very smooth on the grey but little rough on the red one which is probably a quartzite. Anyone have any ideas I’d be interested in hearing.

The one on the right is cool, I've never found anything like it. I always wonder if they used those like that to help start fires (going by the size).

 

[dognose]

I keep everything, much to my wife's annoyment. Rocks and relics everywhere.

You got some nice relics there.

 

[CreekSide]

I keep everything, much to my wife's annoyment. Rocks and relics everywhere.

You got some nice relics there.

Yep and there is more under there. I haven’t found much of anything this year in hard stone just a piece of something that is highly polished and a possible Roller Pestle which I need to go back and get

 

[CreekSide]

The one on the right is cool, I've never found anything like it. I always wonder if they used those like that to help start fires (going by the size).

It could be the divot on the grey one is bigger than most I find and highly polished from use. Some think they used the billets on those stones to for the knapping process.

 

[CreekSide]

A few of my hard stone I’ve found
Little round game discs in the 1st pic

 

[CreekSide]

I bumped this so Jelly could see some of my finds

 

[ToddsPoint]

Stones with a divot on one or both sides are common here. I’ve always figured they were an anvil instead of a hammerstone. Lots of theories on what they were for. Arkies around here claim they were used for bipolar flaking of small flint nodules. Place nod on divot stone and smash it with a hammerstone. Utilize the sharp flakes that are produced. I suppose that’s possible but I’m not totally convinced.

 

[Jatrox]

I know the softer abrasive stone like sandstone, schist and limestone were used to make "marbles". The Cherokee still make stone marbles to this day using the same method. I would bet they used them to round anything that needed it