Can anyone tell me what this is or might be?

[Justin L. Dickerson]

I found this last night in a buddy's freshly dozed field. On the opposite side of the creek and down about a hundred yards is an old "dalton camp" that we have down very well in the past finding treasures. This is the first time that anyone know of has worked the dirt in this area and I found this interesting but to me unknown item. Whatever it is it looks to be petrified... Any ideas guy's artifact, bone, dinosaur poop???

[Leaverite]

I hesitate to give my first impression because it sounds "nuts".
That being said, here is my first impression.

That thing looks exactly like an Acheulean hand-axe with 30,000 - 50,000 years of heavy patination and weathering, followed by a few more recent exploratory flakes on the tip that have re-exposed the parent rock.

Can't hardly be, but if you start turning up more ... it's time to start the first chapter of a very large book because you will be rewriting the prehistory of the Western Hemisphere.

It's gotta be something else.
Interesting, none the less.

[George Looney]

Leverite,,,here in the Ozarks ,I've seen pieces like this and much bigger,,some of these look like a well rounded oval base hoe blade, I have also seen where some of these were used as digging tools, at the Mill Creek site,along White River. problen is Limestone is pretty soft comparied to other cherts. I have a few of these in my wife's flower garden that I have picked up.

[joshuaream]

It looks like a tab of flint that formed inside a chalk/limestone rock.

[Justin L. Dickerson]

It is very curious, but I'm leaning towards George's explanation... Just was to interesting to leave behind.

[Tdog]

Originally Posted by joshuaream

It looks like a tab of flint that formed inside a chalk/limestone rock.

+1

[lillyput]

Looks so much like our tabular flint. Except the cortex here is red sometime but limestone colored too. Comes in many thicknesses. Kinda think Joshua & Tdog nailed it. But I like the hand ax idea. That is thinking outside of the box I find tools all the time that look like Duncan Caldwell's stuff.

[latrans]

Originally Posted by joshuaream

It looks like a tab of flint that formed inside a chalk/limestone rock.

+2

[tomclark]

That's a clay chunk that got squashed flat and then covered over for a loooong time. I'd bet that core isn't as hard as flint.....is it??

[ApacheNDN]

Mill Creek? South of Elkins, AR?