Morrow Mountain base or geofact?

[GrouseMan]

Normally I wouldn’t pick something like this up but it appears beveled evenly on all edges. Found in South Carolina. Thoughts?

 

[Relicgrubber]

Looks like a base to some type of artifact from where I’m sitting.

 

[newnan man]

Looks like a broken base. Nice find.

 

[GrouseMan]

Here’s some more photos. It’s really hard to get a photo that shows what I’m seeing in my iPhone! I’m torn on this one.

 

[GrouseMan]

This was found in South Carolina. Thanks for the reminder. Just edited original post

 

[Tdog]

It looks like a base to a quartz point. With it's thickness, I'd say it's a knife base.

 

[willjo]

As narrow and thick it is most likely a Guilford point

 

[MAMucker]

A broken base for sure. Quartz is a lithic that tends to produces either Gem-Grade or very clunky artifacts.

It’s extremely hard and breaks with razor sharp results. It can be quite brittle and many times laden with hidden flaws.

It is my favorite lithic material, as it was also a favorite choice for projectile points during the Archaic, Woodland through the Contact Periods in several regions (especially the Southeastern Coastal States).

That piece has a broad round base, an elliptical cross section, wide thinning flakes from all sides and even-secondary finish flaking on all edges.

Don’t doubt that one. I also believe that it belongs to the Guilford Complex (Middle-Archaic Period, 7500 to 5000 BP)

 

[Tdog]

I have many similar quartz and quartzite finds that are broken near or in the hafting area like yours. It is my impression that many if not most of the knives got broken while in use by having so much pressure applied that they snapped at the hafting area. This may be true for other materials as well.

 

[ArfieBoy]

An interesting find. Lots of knowledge here about artifacts! Thanks to all of you!

 

[GrouseMan]

Thanks for all the feedback and ID help! Like Arfie said, I learned a lot off this thread alone. Glad to hear it is infact an artifact.