Interesting finds!

[NC field hunter]

Only had about ten min. After work to look, then rain came in. For those of you that know me, I ain't leaving empty handed. I'll grab a gravel and study it for the night. I think I did find a chisel , and a discoidal. However, verification would be nice!



















The "discoidal" has flat spots all around on the sides, but don't look battered as a hammer would. Also, seems too smooth to be Mother N. you guys determine. Please!!

 

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[Tnmountains]

2nd picture is a nice chisel scraper. 3rd picture looks like a lap stone or platform stone. 5th pic might be a natural cup in the rock?? Not sure on 1 and 4 with out seeing the whole thing. Bottom line is you found some nice tools. See what the experts say .

 

[theonlinefisherman]

That third one definitely looks like what happens when you use a stone as the bases surface for bifacing thin flakes. You can do with abrasion, but some of us use stone platforms, and lay the flake flat. And use that flat surface both to collapse new edges but to shape the stone. It eventually works the stone base flatter and flatter and flatter.

Knappers call them anvils, too, anvil stones. It is a subset of the knapping community that uses anvil stones, but we think it was common practice, and they are found at knapping and cache sites. They look like that after time from chipping the anvil along with the piece you are working.

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[larson1951]

i agree with Tn
the first one looks like a chisel/scraper/gouge or something like that
in my opinion the second one is similar to a grinding stone
but that is only what a north dakota found piece could possibly be
they were used for grinding corn meal, or making pemmican, also for grinding mussel shells and ashes for making pottery paste
just my two cents and might not even be worth that since i don't know where it came from
one thing for sure.....they are nice finds
steve
larson1951

 

[GatorBoy]

Nice finds

 

[NC field hunter]

Thanks fellas. The round piece has those flat spots all around the edge of the whole piece. Struck me as odd.

 

[rock]

The first one to me looks like a Turtle Back Scraper. Usually found on Paleo sites. The round one to me looks like a double sided mortar used for grinding seeds and other items for food. I have found 1 Metate made from red sandstone. I have some manos but never have found them together. I have read where the Indians when they left an area would leave the Mortars and Metates on their spot and turn them upside down just in case they ever returned. The Manos which usually were smaller they would take with them to their new living areas. I have found some hand held Mortars in the past as well. One Saddle Mortar which was too large to bring home. Nice finds NC