Worked?

[Older The Better]

Lost my keys briefly took the detector out and this was just below the surface next to a dime, the yard is mostly dirt, that piece is river gravel which does show up randomly around, I have found artifacts near by but it was also in a place where farm equipment has been stored. I can’t decide if it’s native or something somehow chipped up by years of tractors rolling above it.

 

[TravisMag]

I'm sure someone more knowledgeable than me will chime in, but that is what I would imagine a fossil of some sort might look like maybe chipped over time with disc harrows passing over it. I found something similar a while back if I get a chance will post some pics in another thread.

 

[uniface]

Worked. And used hard -- quick and dirty ad hoc ("expedient") piece, discarded after one-time task was accomplished.

MO, FWIW.

 

[Relicgrubber]

Lol…

I see nothing purposeful about it.

 

[antmike915]

Maybe a failed attempt at something, didn't finish for some reason. Tough call but you could check to see if there's any metal marks from farm equipment.

 

[Older The Better]

Thanks for the thoughts, to add some info, as far as what I see. I see cortex removed, a few flake scars, and that one edge seems like it would have been doing the work, it looks like it took crushing damage, makes me think of a wedge or something. on the flip side a concave wedge doesn’t make much sense, there isn’t much of a clear direction or form… maybe I’m being swayed by this little cutter I found in a site it says to me someone in the past was willing to use a river rock to make a quick tool

 

[Tdog]

Man... Better not lose that last one among the chocolate covered caramel candy!

 

[joshuaream]

The first one might not be pretty, and honestly I probably would have picked it up and put it back down, but lots of groups used little river gravel tools like that.

Let me see if I can get this video to work, but here is a knapper working some Citronelle Gravel from Missississipi & Louisiana. If you look at the first couple of strikes he takes, it looks like your tool. Add some micro flaking from use, and I think Uniface is spot on. Expedient tool, used on something hard and probably discarded. A single flake or two could be accidental, but on a small piece like that it's actually pretty hard for accidental damage to create that pattern.

 

[trustsulky]

Worked. Overworked, the improvised part was ruined after its one and only use.