Teardrop Scraper?

[routefood]

I found this relic in SE. PA in a local creek. Can you weigh in what it might be? Novice here..
Thanks!
J.R.

 

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[newnan man]

More pics would help.

 

[Tesorodeoro]

Ever notice how lots of rocks look like perfect artifacts until you flip them over and find out that it’s just an ordinary rock?

What we are looking at is that first look. until we flip it over and look at the cross section shape and look for signs of being worked we will never be able to guess.

 

[routefood]

More pics would help.

Will provide more soon!

 

[dirstscratcher]

I've never seen one out of quartzite, but it looks like a bi-facial scraper very common on late prehistoric sites here in Ohio. It would have been hafted on the pointy end.

 

[routefood]

Thanks DirtScratcher!
Here in SE PA we have an abundance of quartz.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Can you post pictures of back and sides, that will help in identifying purpose.

When posting artifacts please post in focus pictures of all sides to help members in identification.

 

[unclemac]

we get fooled all the time from a single side view, we all do

 

[routefood]

we get fooled all the time from a single side view, we all do

 

[Blackfoot58]

I've never seen one out of quartzite, but it looks like a bi-facial scraper very common on late prehistoric sites here in Ohio. It would have been hafted on the pointy end.

My wife found a milky quartz arrowhead a few years ago

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Thanks for additional pictures, that is an arrow head, not a thumb scraper.

 

[routefood]

Thanks for additional pictures, that is an arrow head, not a thumb scraper.

Thanks for clarifying!

 

[Tesorodeoro]

My wife found a milky quartz arrowhead a few years ago

Could you post a picture of it (and be prepared for random input). That is actually something I’ve been looking for. Quartz of all kinds is very abundant here but it does not seem like it was anything they wanted to mess with over the course of ten thousand years.

 

[Blackfoot58]

Could you post a picture of it (and be prepared for random input). That is actually something I’ve been looking for. Quartz of all kinds is very abundant here but it does not seem like it was anything they wanted to mess with over the course of ten thousand years.

I originally thought it was Burlington flint. I was told, by many seasoned artifact hunters, that it is milky quartz.
It is much shinier than any of the hundreds of flint samples (flakes, etc) that I have. I gave in to their decision eventually. See what you think.

 

[ToddsPoint]

I originally thought it was Burlington flint. I was told, by many seasoned artifact hunters, that it is milky quartz.
It is much shinier than any of the hundreds of flint samples (flakes, etc) that I have. I gave in to their decision eventually. See what you think.

That looks like high quality Burlington flint that’s been heated. Burlington should have at least a few fossils. I circled what looks like a crinoid. Milky quartz will have zero fossils.