Maine tanged knife

[mainejman]

. This tanged knife was found on the shoreline of Sebasticook lake.The lake is drawn down every fall to control algae levels.This allows opportunities for fellows like me to make a few artifact rescues.The fact that it was still intact in such a harsh environment is a sign to me that it was meant to be......it is five inches long and two inches wide....mjm

 

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[redbeardrelics]

Wonderful find! Looks like some real nice edge work along the long curved side.

 

[rock]

Sweet find looks almost like a Hoe.

 

[mainejman]

Yes it has a lot of work along the edge.When I first found it I thought it was a broken ulu. Most Zulus I believe are made is slate though......mjm

 

[painterx7]

Sweet piece for sure !!!!! Like some more pics

 

[Tony in SC]

Good find!! To bad there's not a way really judge the age of pieces like that; it's got that very, very old look. Tony

 

[Charl]

Yes it has a lot of work along the edge.When I first found it I thought it was a broken ulu. Most Zulus I believe are made is slate though......mjmView attachment 1067042

Yeah, most ulus(semi-lunar knife) are ground slate implements, mostly dating to Early Archaic. But chipped ulus were also fashioned. I have a section of a broken chipped quartzite ulu.

Ground slate ulu and below that a fragment of a chipped quartzite ulu found at an Early Archaic camp in association with bifurcates and Late Paleo/Early Archaic lances.

 

[redbeardrelics]

I does look like it could be a nice ulu to me as well, or an all-purpose butchering tool. If hafted, the right hand side edge looks like it would make a good "meat clever", while the worked/ulu edge, would make quick work of big game hide removal. Nice big interesting piece no matter how you look at it. HH

 

[monsterrack]

Nice find