Axe ? Celt? All I know is I hardly find much more than flint chips! On Friday, I had been searching all day, because about a week ago I found a couple of broken arrowheads. I started to give up looking for flint and instead started to dig out any thing that was banded slate or hardstone. After picking up about 700 gagillion rocks, I was about ready to give up -when I sat on the ground and saw a buried rock- with an interesting shape....
I got kind of excited, but then logic told me it was just another mis-shapen rock..... I ran my finger along the edges to wipe away some of the dirt, then saw how smooth the edge was, then as I ran my fingernail under the edge of the blade chills ran up my spine! I never photograph anything, but I pulled out my cell phone to take a picture:
I'm glad I did!!!
soo... at this point I remained skeptical, besides, who's to say it was not just another cleverly shaped rock trying to play tricks on me. But I dug it up, and when I saw what it was I literally fell backwards on the ground laughing, saying "thank you!!" because it represented so many countless hours of finding nothing!!!
Then I ran to the creek and washed it off, I have never been so excited in my life, I think I had a borderline panic attack!! lol!
took these with my better camera:
bottom
its kind of rough all over, but gets real smooth toward the blade
alongside my other axe, I didnt find that one, it was passed down to me as a family hierloom, posted about it a few months back.
But they look nice together
i'm mostly a beginner at this, so I was completely blown away to find something so awesome!!!
most of these things come from the same field as the axe/celt.
some of the things pictured are pieces I believe to be broken arrowheads or scrapers.
this is pretty much all I've found, ever. (other than much much more flakes, chips, cores, etc. which I didnt photograph.)
(there could be a geofact or two in there, lol)
(these were found fairly close to the celt/axe)
I eagerly would love to know anything anyone can tell me about this celt/axe!
Thanks for looking!
cheers
I got kind of excited, but then logic told me it was just another mis-shapen rock..... I ran my finger along the edges to wipe away some of the dirt, then saw how smooth the edge was, then as I ran my fingernail under the edge of the blade chills ran up my spine! I never photograph anything, but I pulled out my cell phone to take a picture:
I'm glad I did!!!
soo... at this point I remained skeptical, besides, who's to say it was not just another cleverly shaped rock trying to play tricks on me. But I dug it up, and when I saw what it was I literally fell backwards on the ground laughing, saying "thank you!!" because it represented so many countless hours of finding nothing!!!
Then I ran to the creek and washed it off, I have never been so excited in my life, I think I had a borderline panic attack!! lol!
took these with my better camera:
bottom
its kind of rough all over, but gets real smooth toward the blade
alongside my other axe, I didnt find that one, it was passed down to me as a family hierloom, posted about it a few months back.
But they look nice together
i'm mostly a beginner at this, so I was completely blown away to find something so awesome!!!
most of these things come from the same field as the axe/celt.
some of the things pictured are pieces I believe to be broken arrowheads or scrapers.
this is pretty much all I've found, ever. (other than much much more flakes, chips, cores, etc. which I didnt photograph.)
(there could be a geofact or two in there, lol)
(these were found fairly close to the celt/axe)
I eagerly would love to know anything anyone can tell me about this celt/axe!
Thanks for looking!
cheers
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