Unusual Arrowhead or BiFace, silver ring and jet fighter (VA & Maryland Detect Tour)

[bergie]

Unusual Arrowhead or BiFace, silver ring and jet fighter (VA & Maryland Detect Tour)

Had a great few days - Earthworks came down from NY. Met in historic town in Maryland. I found this cool 925 silver ring...We didn't find whole lot else at that spot but the detecting was just starting for me...we did have a good time catching up and ate lot of good food and had coldies too. That dude can chow down! He headed back and I headed to other spots and had some luck. Hit a little old church on way to VA and found this cool old jet fighter, heavy maybe from 50s or 60s?? Today was killer...No good metal finds but this cool biface or arrow showed up...I checked it out as pottery shard, then I see it's perfect arrow or biface, with striation marks on front side from being worked on. I appears to be made from a jar or some type of container. Has anyone seen one of these? Found in Burke, VA. Looked cool against the red VA soil. (Oh and saw the Dead and Company, what's left of Grateful Dead plus John Mayer - yeah sounds weird but he was good.)

 

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[david680]

Nice ring. The biface looks to have been a Pond's cold cream jar or something similar, and I'd say the striations are natural from being broke, not from being worked. Just my 2 cents, not my area of knowledge.

 

[bergie]

Could be! I would feel like quite the sucker...seems pretty unusual every other aspect of it would be broken exactly right as well from just a random break. All opinions appreciated.

 

[CRUSADER]

Nice ring. The biface looks to have been a Pond's cold cream jar or something similar, and I'd say the striations are natural from being broke, not from being worked. Just my 2 cents, not my area of knowledge.

Agreed. Circa 1900ish

 

[bergie]

Seems question is "was this made by a person" - then if yes "why would it be done in the more modern era?"... my only argument is the chances of it breaking with the bottom perfectly finished and the rest of it shaped like a biface must be millions to one, no? (I do suppose it could have been made more recently, not sure why)

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on your finds

 

[ClovisOak]

Hi,
I would of picked it up as well! Has conchoidal fracture similar to arrowheads. My guess is that is either a ponds cream container or a electric insulator that got hit by a farm implement or mower causing the impact fractures. My father worked for a electric company and amassed a large number of insulators from late 1800's on up. By the time we were using electric insulators Native Americans were no longer chipping points (except Ishi if you google his name). In Australia the aboriginal people would take the insulators and make points on more of a wide scale. My father had an opportunity to work in Australia and I was almost born there.
HH

 

[jamey]

i think it was hit by a lawnmower,the ponds bottle,

 

[PaDirtDigger]

Definitely just broken that way. Ive heard the story Clovis spoke about before, and i have heard of it happening on the old telegraph lines right here in the midwest of the united states... I wanna say i recall seeing pictures of these being found in overhangs or dry caves.... However, the milk glass, which certainly does look like a ponds bottle, is really too new even for that... I am a flintknapper, and i will knap pretty much anything really, ive smashed a lot of thick old bottles in my time!!

 

[Subterranean]

Great sterling ring, congrats. I would enjoy seeing a photo of your vintage toy jet too. Sub