love scrapers, but...

[Aurora1959]

This recent find seemed...different...not "just" a scraper - it's bigger than the scrapers I usually find around here, and it's been chipped into a figure 8 shape. Checked the bible (The Archaeology of New York State by William Ritchie), and found reference to a "chipped, celt-like chopper".
Think that's what I found - anybody else in the Northeast find anything that fits that descrip?

 

[Tdog]

May we see the other side and the fat end? It looks unifacial. Thanks.

 

[Aurora1959]

sure T-Dog...here ya go. BTW, I said "celt-like" but I meant "adze-like", in Ritchie's terms...

 

[Tdog]

It is pretty big but I believe it is a unifacial tool that most of us would lump into the scraper category. It certainly has some nice touch-up flaking on the thick end. Still, I don't think it was intended to be hafted and used as a typical adze only because it looks too thin to withstand the chopping blows when put to use. However, it would work nicely as a scraper be it hafted or only hand-held. My opinion only friend and if I examined it in person, I might change my mind. It is unique and a good find.

 

[Aurora1959]

thanks for the input Tdog. I love it whatever it is called! I found it in an upturned tree's roots after what had been a flakes-and-chips kind of day.

 

[redbeardrelics]

I would say that is a really cool big hafted scraper as well. It looks like the hafted end has been thinned, and the sides possibly notched for hafting. I would be psyched to find that in an upturned tree fall.