✅ SOLVED stone chisel thing

[NJKLAGT]

Hey Everyone,

I was digging a signal at an old house site and this stone chisel-shaped thing happened to be in the hole. It looks like a black and green kind of granite or something but I'm not sure, maybe the geologists among you will know. Does anyone know what this is? It's certainly man-made. It was about five inches down.

Thanks for your help!


NJ

 

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[13dolphins1]

It looks real to me! I am not sure what a reproduction would be doing underground. I still haven't ever found an arrowhead, and have looked everywhere.

Amazing find! It is amazing to think that someone was using that tool thousands of years ago, and you were the first person to hold it since!

I agree and my thoughts exactly....that is awesome man....congrats

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[huntsman53]

Alright everybody, I'm feeling pretty good about this! It sounds like everyone is pretty confident that it's a celt, so I'm going to start calling it a celt.

Thank you all so much for your help!

The word for such Native American artifacts is pronounced "Selt" and not to be confused with the word Celt which is more commonly pronounced "Kelt" and which refers to some peoples of Europe that mainly lived during the Iron Age and Medieval times and usually spoke the Celtic language. There are people in Europe today that are also called Celt or Celts but on TNET, we deal with old stuff and don't usually refer to them unless they are female and really hot.

By the way, congratulations on a really nice find!


Frank

 

[NJKLAGT]

Sheesh, so we're thinking thousands of years old then? Wow!

 

[jewelerguy]

that's a freakin' sweet find. congrats!

 

[NJKLAGT]

What's the youngest that one of these would be? When did they stop making these?

 

[13dolphins1]

Hey Everyone,

I was digging a signal at an old house site and this stone chisel-shaped thing happened to be in the hole. It looks like a black and green kind of granite or something but I'm not sure, maybe the geologists among you will know. Does anyone know what this is? It's certainly man-made. It was about five inches down.

Thanks for your help!


NJ

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I hope you have access to the old house site? Maybe do some hole digging and screening of the soil and see if their wasn't a settlement here 2000 + years ago....lol
How sweet is that option

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[NJKLAGT]

I hope you have access to the old house site? Maybe do some hole digging and screening of the soil and see if their wasn't a settlement here 2000 + years ago....lol
How sweet is that option

Maybe some sifting is in order!

 

[huntsman53]

What's the youngest that one of these would be? When did they stop making these?

In North America, generally 500 to 5,500 years old. I once found a Pre-Woodland fishing point while Gold panning a stream outside of Lexington, North Carolina that likely pre-dated the birth of Jesus Christ but it is quite possible that your' Celt find is even older.


Frank

 

[huntsman53]

Maybe some sifting is in order!

Yep!


Frank

 

[13dolphins1]

In North America, generally 500 to 5,500 years old. I once found a Pre-Woodland fishing point while Gold panning a stream outside of Lexington, North Carolina that likely pre-dated the birth of Jesus Christ but it is quite possible that your' Celt find is even older.


Frank

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[Clay Diggins]

Sheesh, so we're thinking thousands of years old then? Wow!

Could be thousands of years or a hundred. It's a rock so there is no way to date when it was made. At five inches it probably isn't more than a few hundred years at most since it was dropped there.

If you really want to get an idea of old it might be figure out when your house was built and how much work was done to level the lot. That might tell you if it was dropped since the house was built. If that area of the lot was undisturbed the depth can still provide a clue as to the age of the drop.

More than likely the piece was carried and used by several generations so it could have been dropped many years after it was made. Find out which natives in your area produced and used this type of stone work, study their history, and you will get an idea of when they stopped producing, and carrying, stone tools. That will give you a general answer of how young it could be. How much older than the minimum age is anybody's guess.

 

[NJKLAGT]

Clay Diggins,

Yeah, I think that things could have been moved around a bit in places there. The place burned down, so they would've had to clear out the bricks and debris and everything. The front yard seems to be the least disturbed though, only right near the foundations really. I'm still not positive about the depth it was at, it just appeared on my shovel blade somewhere between 5 and 10 inches down. I don't think my hole was deeper than that. Even if this thing is a couple hundred years old, that's awesome in my books.

Earlier I mentioned the possibility that the homeowners could have collected artifacts that they found around their property, and maybe lost one at some point? I have found one other interesting shard of rock there before that looked like the shattered edge of one of these. Maybe they're all over the place, who knows. I'll definitely be keeping an eye out!