Adze?

[Older The Better]

With no sports to watch and trying to avoid crowds I’ve been looking through some stuff. I’m kind of rediscovering things the more I learn. I didn’t think much of this when I picked it up, just a hunk of material






Was going to ask if it was a square knife like what had been popping up on this site but it hit me while taking pics it’s probably an adze, anybody agree/disagree?

 

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[uniface]

Preform abandoned due to stacking on both sides of the basal thinning strike (final image) IMO

 

[Indian Steve]

I could see it being an adze.

 

[monsterrack]

It's hard to tell, if it's a Adze the center of the blade will be off to one side, if chipped celt it will be in the center. I also could see this as a preform.

 

[Older The Better]

Haha 1-1-1 all valid points


Guess it depends on where you look, the edge kind of cuts diagonally across the center line

 

[Tdog]

An adze will have an offset "bit" on one end. This piece does not appear to have that feature.