River Find - Any Ideas

DirtyVerm

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Found this last weekend while on a canoe trip. Any thoughts or ideas on what it is?
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Could you show a close-up of the end furthest from the hole? Looks kind of like chert. Also, can you tell us where it came from? Welcome to TNet, DirtyVerm.
 

Doe's a magnet stick to it.
 

Hatchet head would be my guess, if it's metal.
 

Scrap I find stuff like that all the time
 

A magnet does not stick to it. I thought it was natural made hole but wondered about the curved sides. It was found in central Illinois.

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Ancient axe? That would be my guess, anyway. Looks like it was intentionally created so that it could be attached to a shaft.
 

It looks very similar to Mill Cr. tabular chert from So. IL. I'll post some pics of Mill Cr. later today to compare. Gary
 

Here are a few pics of Mill Cr. chert for comparison. This comes from Union and Alexander Co.'s in So. IL. Gary

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Interesting find! :icon_thumleft:
 

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