A new guy at work found this a couple of years ago. Its an amazing piece and he doesn't know much about it. Not sure exactly what it is or how old it might be. Any thoughts/insights would be appreciated.

Two charcoal birquettes fused together

stone or metal?

Native American hammer/maul.

It's a native American stone axe, which is also often called a Celt. It's a very nice find.

I have 3 of them.





Keith

There are a lot of those found around here in river/creek bottoms. I believe they were used by indians to break ice for drinking water.Probably had other uses also but were lost breaking ice.

Its stone and I think it was found near a major river here in Alberta.

My buddy found one like that a couple of years ago in ohio on the river.

Ax. They are found around rivers because Indians always camped near water.

That is what they used to pick up women.

Also used to club ole paleface in battle??

Wow that is Amazing

And of course Pig Castration.

wonder how that groove was made? would take a lot of rubbing to do that with a harder piece of rock. you would think losing one breaking ice would be a real bad day

My grampa and granny had a big one, they used as. a doorstop in their house, just like Keith's top pic. Was so heavy, would have taken a mighty strong warrior to swing that thing on the end of a handle! Was made out of granite, which we have alot of in my country, brought down by the glacers. People smater than me have told me, they used them for splitting skulls on buffaloe after running them off a cliff or steep grade! I wanted to keep it in my family, but was too late, my dad's brother had already spoke for it!

Those things are amazing. I too wonder how in the heck they made that groove out hard stone/granite!

Sounds like an incredible piece Lee!

what state was this found in?? that axe would easily go 350-400 bucks......possibly more

Looks like it's made out of Columbia River basalt, probably originally from Idaho, Washington or Oregon. I think there is basalt in southern B.C. as well. Stone tools got traded along way from where they originated; obsidian from Oregon has been found all over the west half of the USA.
Nice

Some of the area around Cypress Hill there was corn and tobacco grown 2500 bp, so it probably came in that era to grind the corn etc and ground the bison meat.

Obsidian has been found though out all of North America from the artic on south. From 5000bp onward.

that is a nice 1950's beer parlor chair in the picture,

Looks double bitted. Very rare for my area anyway. I have seen thousands of axes but only one double bitted.
To shape them they pecked them with another rock.