PA Indian artifacts

[PA.Hunter]

 

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[wells]

Pa Hunter, the bulbous piece looks like it may be slag, that stuff pops up where yuo least expect. I was fooled by it in my early collectig days. It's hard to tell from pics. But the point may be made of chalcedony which comes in various colors but around here most often in black. We get a lot of Bellville chalcedony in central Pa. It's translucent around the edges on thick artifacts but on thin ones it's see through all over reminisent of obsidion. All the best huntin to you.

 

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[PA.Hunter]

Yeah after I posted it yours looks more shinny than mine.

glad you posted them that arrowhead was found rite on top of an axe head that I found about two feet in the dirt and always wondered what it was made of. I believe its the only piece of chert in my whole collection.

 

[rock]

Believe or not some of the quartz artifacts I find here in N Ga I have seen found in Pa before. On another site.

 

[PA.Hunter]

PA Hunter the picture with the black background,the point at the bottom second from the left i believe it looks like a single barb atlatl dart point.

You may be right its hard to tell. The one side has some very fine flaking its realy sharp.

 

[PA.Hunter]

Pa Hunter, the bulbous piece looks like it may be slag, that stuff pops up where yuo least expect. I was fooled by it in my early collectig days. It's hard to tell from pics. But the point may be made of chalcedony which comes in various colors but around here most often in black. We get a lot of Bellville chalcedony in central Pa. It's translucent around the edges on thick artifacts but on thin ones it's see through all over reminisent of obsidion. All the best huntin to you.

Thanks for the info wells.

 

[SOHIO]

do you know what this is?

 

[SOHIO]

sweet stuff btw...nice bell pestle

 

[SOHIO]

Pa Hunter, the bulbous piece looks like it may be slag, that stuff pops up where yuo least expect

thats what i thought too...i have a few places i run into slag, I find obsidian here in ohio say on average of 25 years of hunting i find 1 pc a year usually just a small quarter size pc

 

[PA.Hunter]

sweet stuff btw...nice bell pestle

Thanks Ohio. I had to google "bell" pestle never heard that term used before. So the one beside the circled pestle is a bell pestle I believe I might have another one of those laying around some where.

 

[larson1951]

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very very nice and belongs right here

 

[NC field hunter]

Wow! Nice stuff. Nice to have you here!

 

[SOHIO]

whenever i think about obsidian I think about a mound within the mound city group in chillicothe oh. where they believe a well known or respected flintknapper was entered and as a dedication to him they sent out a band of people to yellowstone national park in wyoming 1500 miles away and carried back several hundred pounds of obsidian and placed it in a pit around the circumference of the mound. They could tell the chunks of obsidian were carried in sacks because they had a hammerstone look to them from banging around in some carry sack for 1500 miles. I think they might have already had the obsidian and had aquired it through time in trading. Maybe it was the old mans stash.

 

[SOHIO]

Thanks that is my only pestle. What is a "bell" pestle never heard that term used before. Is the one beside it a grinding tool also or just a rock? lol forgive me I am still learning.

the pc i circled is a core from a drill sample left behind by some mining company your bell pestle is to right of that called bell pestle for obvious reason it looks like a bell. hey we're all still learning

 

[NC field hunter]

the pc i circled is a core from a drill sample left behind by some mining company your bell pestle is to right of that called bell pestle for obvious reason it looks like a bell. hey we're all still learning

Not sure about that Sohio. Twitch found this one when he came down here to hunt.



Every core sample I've ever seen had this angle on both ends.