What would you all call this and what would it be used for?

[Kantuckkeean]

I'm happy that you all are finding some nice artifacts. I'm still getting nuthin'. I mentioned this thing in another post. It's about the size of a regular-sized Snickers bar (>6" long) and thick. My father-in-law found it many years ago in central Indiana. It's not super sharp and I don't think that the material is anything to write home about either. What do you all call it and any idea on use?





Kindest regards,
Kantuck

 

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[Buckleberry]

It's like a knife/chopper/celt/preform. Cool find!

 

[sandchip]

Pick, possibly? Nice find, whatever it is.

 

[Arkansaw]

Cool is what I call it. Nice find

 

[Kantuckkeean]

It’s a neat piece. I hope to find something similar one day. I’ve had fairly good luck finding larger tools, and my eyes are getting better for the little ones.

Kindest regards,
Kantuck

 

[joshuaream]

Looks like Indian Creek Chert, or maybe Fall Creek. Those are the two major yellow/beige not great lithics found in the Middle part of Indiana.

That style of flint celt is oddly common around Monroe County, and a few counties around it. Go too far from there and you don't see them nearly as often in farm collections. Do you know what county/city it's from?

 

[Relicgrubber]

The way the bottom edge is knapped it looks like a gouge.

 

[dognose]

I am in central Indiana. I have buckets of complete and broken examples of this sort of relic.

I cant tell but from the images I dont see any use polish on the relic. It appears to have mostly large percussion flaking with little to no secondary pressure flaking.

I suspect these are incomplete examples of what could be flint celts or adz.

Knapped further to reduce the cross section and thinned it could also be a knife when completed.