I need some help identifying this artifact.

Muddsk8er · Mar 2, 2017

I found this in a plowed field about 20 miles north of Springfield Missouri yesterday afternoon. It looks like a big scrapper but it almost seems like it could have been attached to something with the notch taken out of it.

dirtdigginfool · Mar 2, 2017

Sorry Mudd...no help here...but it's been worked and it's definitely cool! Ddf

Geochem · Mar 2, 2017

t weathers out of the limestone formations of the area.

In the Springfield area there are microcrystalline quartz called chert by the locals.

Chert chips like glass and displays conchoidal chips on the face of the rock.

Does the rock appear to be "worked", like someone chipped pieces away in order to make a sharpen edge?

Chert carried a high value to Indians for its workability into tools like arrowheads, tomahawk heads, fur scrapers, and such.

Can you show pictures of "working": multiple chips to make a sharp edge?

ClovisOak · Mar 2, 2017

Nice find and welcome to T Net. Definitely worked. May be a hand held scraper, possible preform, possible broken hoe reworked into a scraper. Find some more and keep posting!
Good luck

against the wind · Mar 2, 2017

Welcome to Tnet

Zomotion · Mar 3, 2017

If you look closely you can see a Templar cross, and I bet when you picked it up it was pointing in the direction of oak island....

Sorry couldn't resist. :laughing7:

neat find!

trapperart · Mar 3, 2017

Welcome to the forum and congrats

Trezurehunter · Mar 3, 2017

Welcome to the forum. It does look like a scraper. If you hold the stone and put your thumb in that notch it will probably feel like it belongs there. A lot of times the Indians made a notch for their thumbs to better grasp the scraper. Then again, it could just be a chip from a plow since you found it in a field. I have some that were notched for the thumb.

ohiodigit · Mar 3, 2017

Zomotion!! Thanks for that reply, I almost fell off my chair laughing

Subterranean · Mar 3, 2017

Looks like a chert scraper that may or may not have been hafted at one time. I have found many about 20 miles south of Springfield also! Welcome to the forum. Sub 8-)