have i got what i think ive got ?

lee

lee

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as some of you know i own a historic home built in 1775 and called the captain john Francis house.
since ive been living here ive found secret passages,false walls and a hide hole for the slaves being sheltered by the owners before getting them out on the underground railroad .
well today i was messing around with one of the fire places and found this behind the bricks.
it says on the tag that was with it "found on the Henry buck farm in April 1881" and after looking through some documents on my house i see the bucks have ties with my house, the buck farm is half mile down the road from me and now a road and a business are in the place it was.
have i got a native Indian axe head here or what ?
its made of stone 7 inches long and 4 inches wide and an inch thick at its widest point.

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I'm no expert, so I don't know for sure, but it certainly looks like one to me. It's really cool whatever it is? :wow::wow::wow:

Lee, have you ever checked above the framing of your front door? I've heard that when building the house, they used to place a a Silver Dollar above the front door- for luck or to ward off evil spirits or something like that?
 
From the looks of it I would say ...yes. Looks like a nice native American relic, but how old is the real question :lol: Congrats on a super find!!
 
It looks like one of those "counting coup " stones .A head like that would be mounted on a stick with rawhide and used by one brave to whack his adversary "outside his head " and cause him embarrassment and shame rather than kill him . I'm not an authority but I have stayed at a Motel6,
watched a lot of cowboy movies and read a lot of comic books .
 
Where are you located, what state where it was found? Knowing that I might be able to give you a bit more information on it.
 
I would agree it is such. Are you trying to say you don't even need to leave your house to find good stuff while the rest of us do?
 
ha ha ha ha you guys...lol.you lads are always welcome to detect my yard you know that.
bell mate , im located in Wethersfield ct
 
A real beauty! Before I got trapped in this gravity sucking, black hole hobby of metal detecting, ;) I actually had many other hobbies. One was hunting for native American artifacts. I did that for many years and never found an axe head that nice.
 
lee said:
ha ha ha ha you guys...lol.you lads are always welcome to detect my yard you know that.
bell mate , im located in Wethersfield ct
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I know more about the midwestern stuff than the Eastern artifacts. I estimated the age from the style of the grooving, typically, but not always the full groove is older style than the three quarters groove. Check around there should be a museum that can give you more information or a university. Axes that are not plow struck are difficult to find just because of their size they tend to get hit more often than a smaller point. Here is one I found while detecting a field here in Ohio, it is very nice.





 
Wow! That is awesome. :shocked03: It must be Super to have so much history in your own yard. I found this stone piece while hunting last summer. I always suspected that it may have nene an axe or tool of some sort. I wondered how they drilled such perfect holes in a rock.
 

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