European Finds

[Westfront]

Hi all!
As we don't have a forum for european artifacts i will post some of my finds here to share with you.
Most of our finds here are Neolithic, dating 5500-2200bc. I am more in metaldetecting with an eye for everything else in the fields. We pick up many pottery, most roman to medieval. On some of the pics you can see roman pottery shards as well. I have permission to a field where i expected roman, but i came out with some of my best neolithic finds ever. We picked up several axes there, knives, a drill and a flint for making sparks. Sorry, i don't know the name in english! Best finds are the complete grinding stone, matching parts of an upper and lower grinding stone and the axe with a drilled hole for the shaft.
Thanks for looking!

 

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[Harry Pristis]

Hi Harry, sure was there a longer period of time to use such a tool, iron ones are in use still today... But this type is dated by the archies exact in this period. Called "Bandkeramik/ Roessener Kultur". You can date them very exact because of the pottery shards wich are found also when the archies dug burial grounds.

It is very interesting to see Dechsel from Florida. Are they from flint? And very old! Beauties!
Ours are often made from Basalt or rock wich was found locally. Others travelled more than 1000km/600mls.... Usually all were polished. Are polished stone tools kown in north america too?

Tools in North Florida are typically made from Coastal Plain Chert, sometimes called "Florida chert." Chert is a less-dense microcrystalline quartz. Flint is not native here. In my limited experience, polished stone tools are not found here (unless you count shell celts).

Greenstone (a metamorphic stone) celts (most were probably used as axes) were imported into Florida from North Georgia and North Alabama. These were nicely ground to shape, but I don't think the material takes a polish.

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[Westfront]

Two blade fragments today while out with the detector. I love this area. You can find neolithic everywhere even in this time of the year when only a few strips in the fields aren't planted.

 

[GatorBoy]

it's a shame it's broken but here is a portion I found in saint lucie county florida. I don't know if the picture shows it but it has a nice polish.

 

[Westfront]

Hi Alwayslearning! Yours is exact the same shape like the ones you can find here! Amazing how equal these tools look. Do yow know how old it is?

 

[GatorBoy]

most of that site is 3000-5000 bp.

 

[GatorBoy]

it amazies me how "human" that makes me feel. we really have the same biology regaurdless of ideology.

 

[GatorBoy]

thought this might interest you.. I found this here in florida just a few days ago. it's made from a section of a large marine snail shell...conch

 

[Westfront]

Amazing piece, i know blades made from shells but i have never seen an axe... I made some trips to FL, i ask why i didn't looked for artifacts there....

Ohh, and i have to retract my statement about the honey coloured flint in my last pic. On a closer look i saw that it is a flint from a flintlock from a muzzleloader.

 

[GatorBoy]

cheers

 

[centfladigger]

a central Florida find, imported from north of here

 

[GatorBoy]

real nice! I love the presence of mind to get the insitu.