✅ SOLVED stone chisel thing, new possibility!

[NJKLAGT]

Hey there everyone, it's not over!

I've got one more question, one more skeptical suggestion about this tool. This is the same stone chisel from my previous thread, "stone chisel thing". I'm just making a new thread for visibility.

Is there a possibility that this is a stone chisel for cutting/shaping stone? Possibly from when the house was being constructed? Maybe for the foundation stones?

I know a stonemason who says that this looks "identical" to the stone chisels he uses at work. I don't know if he really means "identical" or just "similar". He's gonna get back to me with a picture.

Does anyone here work with stone or know someone who does? Could this be a white man's chisel from when the house foundations were being laid around 1860? It doesn't seem too far-fetched.

PLEASE TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK! I NEED TO SLEEP!

Thank you all again,


NJ

 

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LOL !

I'm delighted by your enthusiasm, your drive to dig deeper and deeper for the details, and your patience while listening and asking the good questions.
You've missed your calling to be an archaeologist .
We need more like you.

A good archaeologist will present all the evidence ... pics, measurements, archived material, pdf's, ... etc.
When he gets to the end, you ask, "So, it's a celt, right ?"
And he'll say, "Well yeah .........................................but .............................maybe .........................

That's the good ones !

See those trees in the background of your picture ?
You need to make 9 such stones.
You need to cut and trim 12 good handles from said trees using said tool.
You need to haft stone to stick.
You need to fall a few trees, split the logs for planks, hew the joints for lashing together a hut, dig a sufficient rain ditch around said hut, knock a few heads when the marauding nomadic folks pass through and are looking for trouble, sever 20 fish heads, separate an elk's leg from the kill for carrying, and risk losing this beautiful tool you are using by placing it on the blanket while playing the stick game late at night and actually winning a turtle shell shield, in the process.
Come back in a year, show us your hut, your shield, your finely honed muscular self, your beautifully finished canoe, 12 broken axe handles, 8 bashed and worn celt stones, ... and a pic of you holding your surviving hafted tool that made it all possible.
When asked what exactly that tool is, ... you will address the question with knowledge and experience ... but as a good archaeologist, you will end your answer with, "... yeah, ... but, maybe ..."

You've got the bug, the fire's been lit.

 

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LOL !

I'm delighted by your enthusiasm, your drive to dig deeper and deeper for the details, and your patience while listening and asking the good questions.
You've missed your calling to be an archaeologist .
We need more like you.

A good archaeologist will present all the evidence ... pics, measurements, archived material, pdf's, ... etc.
When he gets to the end, you ask, "So, it's a celt, right ?"
And he'll say, "Well yeah .........................................but .............................maybe .........................

That's the good ones !

See those trees in the background of your picture ?
You need to make 9 such stones.
You need to cut and trim 12 good handles from said trees using said tool.
You need to haft stone to stick.
You need to fall a few trees, split the logs for planks, hew the joints for lashing together a hut, dig a sufficient rain ditch around said hut, knock a few heads when the marauding nomadic folks pass through and are looking for trouble, sever 20 fish heads, separate an elk's leg from the kill for carrying, and risk losing this beautiful tool you are using by placing it on the blanket while playing the stick game late at night and actually winning a turtle shell shield, in the process.
Come back in a year, show us your hut, your shield, your finely honed muscular self, your beautifully finished canoe, 12 broken axe handles, 8 bashed and worn celt stones, ... and a pic of you holding your surviving hafted tool that made it all possible.
When asked what exactly that tool is, ... you will address the question with knowledge and experience ... but as a good archaeologist, you will end your answer with, "... yeah, ... but, maybe ..."

You've got the bug, the fire's been lit.

Haha! That's awesome, I appreciate the sentiment, thank you. BUT WHICH ONE IS IT?! TEEELLLL MEEEEEEEEEEE. I'm leaning toward celt. It looks like it'd be wedged parallel into the wooden shaft. That's my guess...