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[dognose]

I found this mini slate celt not too far from my home, about 20 miles, early 90's. Its beat up some with plow strikes but none took out any chunks.

This undrilled gorget was found in the field next to my house on July 4 mid 90's. This field has yielded a few points too. I found a broken pick bannerstone not too far from this gorget a few years later. In this field I found about 12 axes over the years. Unfortunately, a house now sites on this site.

This salvaged gorget was found on the site of an old tile factory in the mid 90's. The tile factory was long gone, the old lady who owned this field walked barefoot in the mud, in her PJ's and housecoat to where I was walking to talk to me. I was focused on the field and did not even notice until she started talking. She told me about the old tile factory being there when she was a small child. She was something.

I found this undrilled quadraconcave gorget along a small creek not too far from the mini celt above, not too long after the mini celt. But in an area devoid of any relics or debitage.

This polished slate disk was found about 1 mile from my home on small site which produced other broken slate and points in the early 2010's

 

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[Buckleberry]

Awesome show! So fortunate to have had acces to so many areas with slate!
I like the mini celt best.

 

[newnan man]

I like those slate finds. The plow wasn't their friend.

 

[joshuaream]

Your area produces some nicely shaped slate gorgets.

Northeast Indiana has a lot of slate, but for gorgets it's rare to see much beyond the classic rectangular 2 hole style. I've found a dozen or so of those (mostly halves), one Adena expanded center (broken and repaired) and one oval gorget. Most long time hunters of good sites have a similar mix, rare to see a biconcave or quadricave.

 

[dognose]

here is another quadricave preform, beat up for sure and not drilled, in my frame in the middle bottom.

The slate in this frame except for the quadricave preform are knapped but not yet polished. The quadricave does have some polish

The round object on the right just abve the white preform I think is an undried bead. it seams to be made of sandstone. I found that on a knoll with a nice drill and a round tool back in the late 90's.

The large white preform is a flaked hixton quartz blade. The large slate preform above it, I found next to a preform axe. Note you can see the rough raw exterior of the slate in the center. Both sides have knapping. Not sure what the finished relic may of been. I best guess is a gorget. The preform axe was pecked into shape but had zero polish or use wear.

its intereresting you say hunters of good sites. Many times I find slate all by itself, while walking from one known prolific site to another. so I take my time, and check a lot of things out. But at my age I am not quick walking anymore in the field. The quadricave posted above found not far from the mini slate is a good example. Found all by itself alone.

 

[Tdog]

here is another quadricave preform, beat up for sure and not drilled, in my frame in the middle bottom.
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That piece bears a striking resemblance to a Guilford Axe found further east. Just an observation.

 

[joshuaream]

its intereresting you say hunters of good sites. Many times I find slate all by itself, while walking from one known prolific site to another. so I take my time, and check a lot of things out. But at my age I am not quick walking anymore in the field. The quadricave posted above found not far from the mini slate is a good example. Found all by itself alone.

Walking between sites isn't a bad description for it. Good sites being big fields with multiple sites spread around depending on the area. I guess some sites were known for not being particularly generous with finds, but when you found something it was usually something decent. That was often the case with dovetails as well as slate.