New York Sportsmen
General Activities => Outdoor Activities => Topic started by: Appleman on May 13, 2020, 06:49:32 PM
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Doing soil test samples is about as interesting as watching paint dry until you look at what's sitting on the ground next to your auger and find this! Please tell me about it Ron and those in the know.
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Hatchet?
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Awesome find right there
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Wow. What a find
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THATS AWSOME, axe head for sure , what area ?
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I'll pm you Chris. Within a 75 mile radius of around here.
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That is very cool!
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It has a green hew to it. I think that it's granite. Side view
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That’s cool. I wonder how old it is now
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That’s one heck of a find and the shape of it is excellent. Congrats!
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The rock is around 4.5 billion years old— don’t know when man made it into an ax head? Thought that Ron or someone could tell me😎. There’s one small chunk missing where a plow or disc hit it or got damage in some way.
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That really is one heck of a find, it always amazes me when you guys find these artifacts!!! Congrats!!!
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OMG.. You are one lucky man ive found one in 35 years and was with someone who found another one 5' from me. its the top prize for a collector in my opinion. Its a full groove axe head no telling how old it is as native americans been making them for thousands of years. The only way you may put a date to it is by finding other artifacts that may be on the same site like pottery sherds or arrowheads as they can be dated by the style. Even then you will really never know as a native may have found it himself. Would love to see it in person someday..Congrats on a great find.
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Got to get into the turkey woods but when i get back ill tell ya what they were used for. No not splitting wood.Take a guess..
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Got to get into the turkey woods but when i get back ill tell ya what they were used for. No not splitting wood.Take a guess..
Braking bone , grinding corn / wheat ?
Interesting for sure ...
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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.
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... any guesses?
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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.
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Good to know that they used it to farm Ron (clear trees) ;D. 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.
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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.
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Very cool find!
I would have guessed some kind of war club... learn something new every day, very interesting.
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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.
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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!
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Mine almost looks like a net sinker (weight) but the sharpened edge shows it's real use.