What do I have?

[vanous101]

Just acquired land on a creek in Central Texas & excited to see what treasures we find. Found this yesterday in creekbed, first thought was spearhead but I really don't know what I am looking for. Any help would be greatly appreciated, kind, age, worth, etc.!! Thanks in advance.

 

[Gold Maven]

I would call it a blank. Roughly chipped at a flint outcrop, and carried back to be worked later.

 

[CoilyGirl]

Looks to me like it was meant to be for scraping the skin off an animal.

 

[BosnMate]

I'd call it a knife or scraper. Scraper would be used to flesh an animal hide, or peel bark off arrow shafts etc. If you don't know what it is, and it's worked on both sides, the archies call in a biface.

 

[vanous101]

Thanks. It is worked on both sides & fits easily in the palm of your hand.

 

[vanous101]

Today's find looks more like a spearhead than the previous one I posted about. This one is longer & slimmer & has a "stem" on it.

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[RW]

Research "Kerville Biface", "Bristol Biface" and "Guadalupe Tools" and see if they were in your area. Far from expert, just looking through a book on Texas stone artifacts. Cool stuff though! Good luck in future.

 

[villagenut]

Looks like you bought yourself some good land and creek. Nice finds.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Moved to our Indian Artifact forum for more opinions from long time collectors....

 

[ShieldJaguar]

The first one is a scraper/knife and a nice one. Looks like you have a great creek!

 

[arrow86]

Looks like a good site , no doubt they are artifacts which is a relief to see after some of the posts recently. They both look very crude but surely would have still been functional knives or scrapers. Good luck keep the pics coming

 

[vanous101]

Thanks! I'm looking forward to finding more items & getting educated.

 

[monsterrack]

You will find more on your land. Thanks for posting

 

[quito]

Thanks for showing your finds! Looks like a productive area.

Unless you are very fortunate, it will probably be a while before you actually do find a spear point, or lanceolate. Them critters are pretty rare!

 

[rock]

Finally no rocks. Just nice artifacts.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Looks like you found a couple of nice pieces.

 

[thewatchers]

Finally no rocks. Just nice artifacts.

That's been going thru my head a lot lately too. I would barely consider myself even an amateur at best at identifying Indian artifacts but lately the amount of ordinary rocks being called artifacts has had me cringing a lot more than usual.

 

[rock]

That's been going thru my head a lot lately too. I would barely consider myself even an amateur at best at identifying Indian artifacts but lately the amount of ordinary rocks being called artifacts has had me cringing a lot more than usual.

Ive been there when I first started hunting and wasnt really finding anything. Now I go out and dont bring much home cause I can tell the difference between a rock and a artifact. Most of the time anyway.

 

[vanous101]

Here are a few more artifacts I have found on the place.

 

[archer66]

The bottom one with the hole on the top.....are those other two dark spots also holes??