Just wonderin, anybody encountered something like this?

[JayD]

Just wonderin', anybody encountered something like this?

I found this on my property in Licking County Ohio (about an hour away from Flint Ridge, Ohio). Over my years here I have uncovered many small arrowheads (some intact... some not), but nothing this large until now. It is large & weighs about 5 lbs. Any guidance will be much appreciated. Thanks.

 

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[SOHIO]

thanks white

 

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[IllinoisDug]

well i hate to disagree with the masses but that is a blank, they would wear themselves out using that to scrape hides

well, yea. Maybe a big tool like that did the heavy hacking. The percise scraping would obviously be done by smaller more fine instruments.

 

[arapahoscout]

It's kind of funny that a hoe was brought up again. When I had originally posted the similar one in the link above, Treasure_Hunter suggested possibly a hoe.

Rewind to when I found it... I found this sticking up about one inch from the pine needles and dirt. It was under a cedar bush and the only ray of light peeking through the branches was shining right on it. I dug it out all covered in dirt and didn't realize what I had other than it was an interesting rock... I continued hiking and was digging around in some accumulated sand in between some sandstone spires using this rock as a hoe! I found 2 spent cores and a 2 pecking stones using it as a hoe, not even knowing what I had found. I got back to the truck and washed it off with some water and when I saw the color and all of the pressure flaking around the edge I was sure glad I didn't break it!

 

[SOHIO]

well, yea. Maybe a big tool like that did the heavy hacking. The percise scraping would obviously be done by smaller more fine instruments.

scrape a lot of hides do ya?

 

[trevmma]

pretty big for a blank i would hate to carry even 4 of those, gut says flint hoe preform, idk tough one

 

[SOHIO]

maybe they had big plans for it.....4x5=20...you can't carry 20 lbs? I can carry 20 pounds all day long in todays heat. the only way that could be a flint hoe is in preform that is a possibility,I have lots of stuff that was abandoned (for whatever reason) midway through making it. Its possible it could be a hide scraper, but i think its a quarry blank . Someone said it was worked too much to be a blank but its worked exactly how i would expect to see a blank. from the picture it looks to me to have sharp edges around, if those edges are crisp with no abrasion, polish or chopper etc use then its a blank. might even call it a cache blade.

 

[SOHIO]

actually after looking at it again it does appear to have some chopper end use, closest thing to call it then would be crude flint hoe.

 

[SOHIO]

wait thats one of them flint chopper hoe quarry blank preform cache blade chopper celts

 

[arapahoscout]

SOHIO, your meds man, your drifting! Lol, just messing with ya!

 

[catherine1]

Nice find. I would call it a hoe/preform blank. Get the shovel out, and dig about a foot down in a 3 foot area to make sure its not part of a cache. Thanks for the pic.

 

[SOHIO]

SOHIO, your meds man, your drifting! Lol, just messing with ya!

what am i going to do with myself ...

 

[SOHIO]

Nice find. I would call it a hoe/preform blank. Get the shovel out, and dig about a foot down in a 3 foot area to make sure its not part of a cache. Thanks for the pic.

wouldn't that be sweet.

 

[shopdog]

go back and dig down

i found a piece like that and under it was a very large cache of blades, chipped axe`s , spades , and a large knife or spear