I took some pics of this today for a discussion on a hunting forum I'm in...I found this in the late 90's hauling in tobacco around the Nolin Lake here in KY. I was told at the time by a guy I work with that it is called a "celt". No expert here...just throwing up a pic for your perusal. 

Interesting Aaron, appears to be some type of wedge typed tool, for scraping or?

24 minutes ago, John Morris said:

Interesting Aaron, appears to be some type of wedge typed tool, for scraping or?

Agreed,..but I never got into arrowheads and stuff really heavy...like everyone else the family has a few found in gardens and such and I do have a few books I picked up later in life....but I would not consider myself knowledgeable. 

Could be a hide scraper to remove fat and tissue before tanning. Also may be primative wood scraper but that is real conjecture.

9 hours ago, aaronc said:

Agreed,..but I never got into arrowheads and stuff really heavy...like everyone else the family has a few found in gardens and such and I do have a few books I picked up later in life....but I would not consider myself knowledgeable. 

 

3 minutes ago, Gerald said:

Could be a hide scraper to remove fat and tissue before tanning. Also may be primative wood scraper but that is real conjecture.

 

 

3 minutes ago, Gerald said:

Could be a hide scraper to remove fat and tissue before tanning. Also may be primative wood scraper but that is real conjecture.

 

We're all about real conjecture here,...cause I don't know what in the hell it is  

1 minute ago, Gunny said:

 

 

 

 

 

I love that Documentary 

Hand axe?  

Just now, steven newman said:

Hand axe?  

 

Could be,..close enough that I wouldn't wanna get hit with it 

Definitely looks like a Celt to me.   I walk fields in the spring and have found a number of cutting tools and points but  I have not been lucky enough to find one of these.  Not 100% sure what the intended use was but have read online that they were used as a small hand axe or hoe for digging. 

While roaming the small rivers and creeks of Colo it seems as if someone made lots of the same type of what you have here but I've always called them river rocks. And the farmers around Alamosa all have several stacks of the unwanted stones. Rounded from years of rolling and rubbing against each other.

  It's a little different in this area for the people around here pay good money for those rounded rocks and turn them into decorations in and around their flower beds.

 

When we retired we spent time exploring almost every state and all we got for thousands of miles of sight seeing is a big pile of round unusual looking rocks. Almost one for every state but now they are in the way taking up space on the deck. Now I believe your one rock maybe being displayed on the fire place might be what I should do to all but one of our rocks...

 

Or you could do what I did with this rock...I fixed a stand for it and a small sign saying, We think this is the very first rock that was found on this earth way back yonder! I had it displayed on this little island at the go-cart track in Odessa telling what and where it could have come from with a price tag of 13,233.00

 One day this lady ask to talk to me and she said her daughter was interested in the rock and if I would come down a little she would buy it...And I talked to my wife and she said the lady was sincere about the daughter wanting to buy the rock......so as they were getting ready to leave she came over with the well what do you say and I said for 10 bucks you can take it........I said lady this was just a joke between my wife and I for we thought money didn't mean anything to some people and I was just proving it to my wife......We lost some riders for the go-carts that day for they said they would never bring their kids back ever again!!!!!  Its still got the high price tag on it from that day which had to be in 1985 or 1986.

Nice !

 

Us old timers  would use that for smashing apart joints and the ends of bones. To get at the marrow. 

Petrology is fine but, metallurgy is better. At least the kerf is smaller.