Kiss My Glass! Ive done it again!

[Airborne80]

Walking along the shore and look what washed up at my feet. yet another piece of glass that just happens to match about 50 others found in the same spot. The strange thing is that the larger ones like this all have an offset shoulder. Can't just be a co-incidence. The other stuff was found in the same area. Has anyone seen the Zebra stripped material before? I find a lot of it in this area and wonder what it is. It's only striped on one side and has a clay like feel to it. I also found a piece of coal that I believe was used by the river boats of the past. Regarding the bird point..... i find a ton that are the exact shape and size with the tapered base and due to where they are found, I have to believe that they were used for fishing. Anyway... Not much of a find but as always......we had a fun time and the boys got to swim with Charlie.... who at the end of the hunt, passed out by the back door. He needs to go on a diet! I hope everyone had a great weekend.

 

[Airborne80]

I just realized that I have found a ton of stone points that are shaped the same as this glass point. Even yesterday I found this one. its like a stone copy of the glass

 

[uniface]

There were a tremendous number of tools made in the 18th & 18th centuries that leave people today scratching their heads. Each one had a specific purpose. Your pointed things seem to be one example of that. They were obviously something. But what is a good question.

Piercing or cutting anything would seem to be ruled out, because so many of the edges are closer to square than to low-angle ones.

 

[Airborne80]

There were a tremendous number of tools made in the 18th & 18th centuries that leave people today scratching their heads. Each one had a specific purpose. Your pointed things seem to be one example of that. They were obviously something. But what is a good question.

Piercing or cutting anything would seem to be ruled out, because so many of the edges are closer to square than to low-angle ones.

I agree. Its a puzzle but I do keep coming back to the spear fishing theory only because there was so much of that here. I will never stop the research until I find out hahaha. Its a mystery and I like that. Thanks.

 

[joshuaream]

It would be interesting to scope them for use wear/intentional dulling.

 

[jpitt1970]

I could be wrong, but the zebra striped stuff looks to me like an old piece of tile @ the srtipes would be the remnants of glue or thinset installed w/ a notched trowel

 

[Airborne80]

I could be wrong, but the zebra striped stuff looks to me like an old piece of tile @ the srtipes would be the remnants of glue or thinset installed w/ a notched trowel

It looks like that but this material is very .... weak for tile. It breaks pretty easily.

 

[jpitt1970]

I could be wrong, but the zebra striped stuff looks to me like an old piece of tile @ the srtipes would be the remnants of glue or thinset installed w/ a notched trowel

It looks like that but this material is very .... weak for tile. It breaks pretty easily.

It will be brittle if it was made from old masonry..it did not have the same compounds used today...similliar to old brick mortar that basically turns to sand because of the age.
It could be the remnants of the surface the tile was on.

Jon

 

[centfladigger]

the black and white looks like that anasazi black on white pottery