Big copper piece, help needed.

[Johnny Bravo]

Well this year seems to be off to the best start ever and I'm finding a ton of stuff I have no idea about. Thought I'd take the long walk to my best copper finding spot and not more than 10 minutes I get a good $.50/$1 signal, it's always a big chunk of lead when I get a good signal, but I kept my fingers crossed for this one. As my luck would have it, it payed off BIG time, bagged the biggest piece of copper I have ever found , and I have no clue to what it could be and don't think a guess will get me very far with this one so any thoughts on what it may be would be great. Best guess I have so far is that its some type of chisel or wood working tool. It measures about, 5" long, 1 3/4" at it's widest, and 1/2" thick, the bent part sticks out 1 1/8", on the skinny end its 1/4" thick and 3/4" wide. The bent end on it tapers from the inside towards the out and comes to a rather well shaped edge. I don't have a scale, but I would guess the weight to be around one pound.

Thanks for looking
John

 

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[Johnny Bravo]

Here is some more stuff that I've found on my last few trips. First one is the first socketed point or spear ? that I have found, it's 2 1/2" long and found about 10' away front the big one in my first post. #2 is a very thin sheet like piece of copper thats mostly uniform and ranges from .014" to .021" thick and has a hole punched in it, not sure if it's just junk or something worth hanging onto. #3 is all of the worked pieces I found on my last 4 trips, 3 conicals, 1 awl, and 3 don't knows.

 

[thompy]

man those are sweet, could the first one be a hoe, no idea , keep it up love seeing the copper

 

[pickaway]

Congrats on the finds.

 

[Cannonman17]

Socketed adze? What on God's green earth did you clean them in?!?!?!

 

[Johnny Bravo]

I just clean them with soapy water and a toothbrush, most of what I find is very clean and doesn't have much of a patina, I don't give them that much of a washing so they don't get beat on and stay in as much of the original condition as I found them in, just enough to get the dirt off. I don't have the best digital camera so my pictures are rather rough so what you see on here is a bit off from what it really looks like.
Yes I would say the last few conicals I have found are VERY rough compared to the other ones I have found. Think I have found a few preforms from the same spot I found the big one at, also have another conical with the hole in it that I forgot to post, try to get some pictures added later tonight of those.

 

[Johnny Bravo]

The first one I found this year and the maybe preforms.