Very western or modern looking knife blade

[CajunPointHunter]

This is something I found along with some points not long ago it is petrified wood and it was obviously ground to this shape. I can't help but think it was the start of a knife blade!

 

[JustPlainStrange]

Why do you think it was ground to that shape? Petrified wood often comes apart in layers and breaks into all sorts of shapes.

Sometimes the perimeters of the flat, petrified wood plates were flaked and used - such is the case with Bronson Knives. You'll see that all of the time with Pet wood and plate Chalcedony out west or with Pet Wood in Tx,LA area.

 

[Charl]

I agree, don't believe it was ground into shape. Petrified wood was a common lithic where found, I wish it were found around here, but it wasn't ground into a preform stage.

 

[CajunPointHunter]

It's very plane to see the "tool" marks on the edges where something was used to shape this piece now I may have been born at night but if u give me a map and 10 minutes I can tell the difference from my butt hole and just a hole in the ground

 

[Pancake]

Looks like a nice piece of petrified wood to me. I don't see any tool marks at all though. Where are you seeing them?

 

[CajunPointHunter]

Picture 2 all along the flat and curved part although picture is blurry and pic 3 close to thumb and index finger

 

[arrowman]

Sorry but all I see is a plain rock there. I am curious though, what makes it "western"?

 

[CajunPointHunter]

"Western" may have been a bad word how about we try early American/European not particularly Native American

 

[GTK96]

Not seeing it...

 

[Tnmountains]

CajunPnthuntr I see the rings on the edge in the petrified wood. I have similar petrified wood from wear. Kinda like the rings in a tree. It is almost as if some sections of the fossil are harder than other.

 

[CajunPointHunter]

CajunPnthuntr I see the rings on the edge in the petrified wood. I have similar petrified wood from wear. Kinda like the rings in a tree. It is almost as if some sections of the fossil are harder than other.

I know what your talking about very well I have been collecting petrified wood since I was 15 now 44 it's almost like rings in a tree, well said. But there are straight markings going crossways as well and the areas that appear to be rings in the tree are much more pronounced where it looks tooled

 

[quito]

Beings it appears to not be ground all the way around perhaps it was used for scraping for a time, and it is use wear you are seeing.

Just a thought beings it sounds like it came off a site. I have lots of odd pieces that were obviously used if only briefly.

 

[CajunPointHunter]

Just some of the petrified wood I've found over the last three years that has nothing to do with artifacts....

 

[GatorBoy]

Beings it appears to not be ground all the way around perhaps it was used for scraping for a time, and it is use wear you are seeing.

Just a thought beings it sounds like it came off a site. I have lots of odd pieces that were obviously used if only briefly.

Exactly..

 

[quito]

Looks like right outside the door of my man cave, lots of site rocks. Only pet wood is scarce in my rock garden.

Joel

 

[scepter1]

Yes, it's been worked. Petrified wood comes in a wide variety of types and quality. Agatized and opalized wood is easier to knap than this more common type of petrified wood, which tends to be tossed once the knapper realizes it just isn't working out very well. It often doesn't show flaking very well, similiar to some of the white quartz points.

 

[GatorBoy]

I'm glad you mentioned the fact that agatized and opalized wood is the proper description of the high quality often glass like material. Alot of folks don't know that.