By far the coolest thing I've ever found doing soil tests

[Relf25]

So cool! Last year while checking trail cameras in the woods I came across a stone with numerous dimples on flat side, have no clue what they’re from but doesn’t look natural. Will post pic later.

[Relf25]

... any guesses?

[walkabout]

 According to a archaeologist ive spoken to the stone axe was used for fallen trees but not in the traditional manner that we know . They would set fires around the trunk of the trees they wanted down and burn them for days and as they were burning every so often they would remove the burnt charcoal with the stone axe until the tree falls. Relf25, it sure is a cool stone for sure but doesnt look man made from what i can see by the pic. Mother nature sure does some unusable things.

[Appleman]

Good to know that they used it to farm Ron (clear trees) . Making even cooler!

Relf-- it looks like a petrified woodpecker tree--LOL. What kind of rock is it?  Remember that 3 times in history of  pre-NY that there was one mile thick ice where your standing.  That rock may be from Canada.

What kind of handle do you think it had.  The end had to be cut out or split then bound with hemp, cat gut  pine pitch? Any ideas.  Hunts with stone does that kind of stuff as well as Ron I think.  Any ideas.

[walkabout]

Appleman, cant really tell from the pic but looks like it may have never been used or finished as u can still see all the pec marks on it from the pec and grind method. usually they would polish those things up really nice.

[bart]

Very cool find!

I would have guessed some kind of war club... learn something new every day, very interesting.

[Appleman]

Pec marks??  What is that Ron?

Very cool find!

I would have guessed some kind of war club... learn something new every day, very interesting.

Bart--It could have been a war club if the dude in the next long house over was over visiting and didn't expect an early return from the hunt.....  . Nah--that wouldn't have happened back then.

[Redfish]

I found this one as a kid. Dug up when my grandma's house was built in the Hamptons.  This  one has a sharpened edge and a rounded one.  It was near the Shinnecock Indian reservation.  The one you found is a work of art!

[Redfish]

Mine almost looks like a net sinker (weight) but the sharpened edge shows it's real use.