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This is the way these are usually found (compare with the intact one on a heavier blade in another post).
The light colored one is a Bill Tatu find from Humphries Co., Tennessee. Very pale hornstone. (Some say the color change is from exposure to sunlight, but both sides are alike). This is a snapped off working tip.
The dark one came out of Tom Davis' junk box, many years ago. It's dark hornstone, and shows the final stage in the usefulness of this type of tool : re-worked down to a stub and with spokeshaves on each side edge. The basal edge shows battering from the previous unsuccessful attempts to drive it from the parent core.
The light colored one is a Bill Tatu find from Humphries Co., Tennessee. Very pale hornstone. (Some say the color change is from exposure to sunlight, but both sides are alike). This is a snapped off working tip.
The dark one came out of Tom Davis' junk box, many years ago. It's dark hornstone, and shows the final stage in the usefulness of this type of tool : re-worked down to a stub and with spokeshaves on each side edge. The basal edge shows battering from the previous unsuccessful attempts to drive it from the parent core.
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