Could this be what i think?

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2 Weeks ago i met up with Ron to check out a chert collecting site. We were on a dirt road and looking around when a Georgia Wildlife officer kinda snuck up behind us and asked what we were doing? (Scared the crap outa me.) We told him we were rockhounds and was just looking for chert. He reached over in his cup holder and hands me 2 pieces and asks do we mean this stuff? I said yes thats the stuff we are looking for. I handed it to Ron he looked at it. The officer then tells us we are about 9 miles from where we want to be. And gives us directions. Ron hands them back to me and I offer them back to him. He says no go ahead and keep them. I shove them in my pocket and we go on our merry way to hunt for rock. Well Ron knew right were he was talking about and led me right to the load. I picked up a 5 gal. bucket in an hour. We were both giddy at the amount of material right in the road. Got home that nite cleaned out my pockets into the bucket and forgot it. Then I pull it out to send a fellow in Alaska some of it and see the 2 pieces the officer had given me and remembered he had said one had been heat treated or at least in a fire and that the other had some markings like it had been knapped. So I'm curious and pick it up. It fits my hand like it was made for me. Switch hands with it and it feels great. Then I take a Real Good Look! Thats when light went on that i had seen that shape from an archaeological dig at the Topper site just across the river in SC. Went back and found it. Boy it sure looks like the same thing to me. What do you think?

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Please resize the pictures they are way too big and distort the text.

[dr00bie]

Yours looks like it has been worked a little more extensively... it is definitely some type of tool, a scraper or something... how big is it?

Drew

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Glad to hear there are some folks out there collecting chert. When you find a good outcropping of chert, 9 times out of 10 you will also find flakes made by aboriginals that were there a few years before you. And that Ranger has definately developed an eye for worked pieces. Your piece has the one obviously worked edge, the other three appear to be broken.
Your piece also appears to have a depression, or 'flute', through the middle. Clovis are not the only fluted points. You have the Hardaways and Hardaway-Daltons as well. Seeing as how the top and bottom of your piece are missing it is very hard to say whether it was Clovis or some other early preform. The worked edge does appear to be bi-facially worked, ie. worked from both sides of the flake. Most scraper type tools are unifacially worked, ie. worked from one side only to create a strong sharp edge. So, since your flake appears to be bifacially worked, my guess would be that it was an early projectile point that was broken in the process of manufacturing and discarded by its maker. Another guess would be that it is
Hardaway due to the fact that it looks like the maker may have been trying to put little feet on the bottom, but there is really no way of saying for sure.
Since you are so close to the Topper site you may want to take it over there sometime and see what Al might have to say about it. I'm sure he would be interested in knowing where it came from.
I know this ain't much of an answer but I hope it helps. Joe

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The one on the right is from the Topper site. Mine is exactly the same size and shape. They think the one on the right is over 50,000 years old from the carbon dating of the collected layer. Jim