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AlbertResonox
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|  New Message Posted!2009-03-29 15:45
Hi Sem...I'm no expert myself...I do look closely at things I find(or get sent)and as I said..my interpretations might be totally wrong(and probably are...lol).But here is a pic of everything together,with a rule for sizing...to give an idea of how finely knapped the smaller items are....
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sem
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| New Message Posted!2009-03-26 23:18
Hi Albert
Maybe you and MickM could get together on this and produce something for The Portal that enables the rest of us to recognise real artifacts if we see/find them.
Thanks
Sem
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AlbertResonox
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| New Message Posted!2009-03-20 22:21
Thanks for taking time to look at them guys.....
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On 2009-03-20 21:07, sem wrote:
Hi Albert
I hate to burst your bubble, but these don't look like any man-made artifacts I've seen. I'm an amateur though.
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No problems..I have to be honest,they actually look better "in the flesh" as it were(my dodgy photography doesn't do justice)...but there are definite signs of "shaping" and knapping on them.
@ MickM..a friend in Georgia USA,sent them to me,from her grandfather's collection..I'll put sizes up for them possibly Sunday or Monday..
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| New Message Posted!2009-03-20 22:10
Difficult to be sure from a photo & a scale would help, but our opinions are;
Pic 1 - worked quartz, possibly a notched tool, but not an arrowhead.
Pic 2 - uncertain.
Pic 3 - worked quartz debitage.
Pic 4 - worked flint, probably a borer of some kind - size?
Pic 5 - worked flint, possibly a broken tool or crude scraper or else a rejuvenation flake.
Where did this stuff come from?
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sem
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| New Message Posted!2009-03-20 21:07
Hi Albert
I hate to burst your bubble, but these don't look like any man-made artifacts I've seen. I'm an amateur though.
I've always been jealous of people who find archaeological things. A friend of mine once found he needed his house to be under-pinned because of subsidence, the house had been built on a Bronze Age mound. Although he couldn't keep the finds, he was allowed to show them to members of the local wargames club and visitors like me.
Cheers
Sem
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AlbertResonox
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| New Message Posted!2009-03-20 15:53
Please feel free to comment...my interpretations are just guesswork.
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AlbertResonox
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| New Message Posted!2009-03-20 15:50
This is just a tiny piece of fossilised "something"
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AlbertResonox
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| New Message Posted!2009-03-20 15:48
Not sure about this one..it is more "broken" than the others
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AlbertResonox
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| New Message Posted!2009-03-20 15:47
I can envisage this piece as more of a cutting/skinning tool rather than arrowhead
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AlbertResonox
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| New Message Posted!2009-03-20 15:45
This tiny piece is no longer than my pinkie nail
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