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Stone tools & knapping - anyone had a go?
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<blockquote data-quote="Peacekeeper1966" data-source="post: 203860" data-attributes="member: 4704"><p>Afternoon all,</p><p></p><p>Time for a bit of show n tell:</p><p></p><p>My maternal Grandfather was a sheep grazier out around Gunnedah until the 60's when he retired to Tamworth and bought a smaller property at Nemingha, just so he could keep on terrorising his bank manager. He was not a man of pleasant disposition and my father and the old bastard did not get on.</p><p></p><p>Apart from upsetting Christmas dinners and shooting Wedgetail Eagles out in the paddocks because they took his Peppin-Merino lambs and having a 'Chinaman' for a cook at the homestead, he also came across aboriginal stone tools from time to time. I have had a few handed down to me and here they are. One has been knapped and the other appears to have been ground along a stone groove. </p><p></p><p>My mother has a few more, one very unusual in that it is an almost equilateral triangle wedge, each side about 4 inches long. Around the centre and from the base of the wedge, material has been removed but leaving the working/striking edge intact so as the tool can be grasped and used in a pushing or striking action. It is pretty heavy and thinking about how it may have been used, it seems to lend its self to hacking through heavy materials or maybe bone. Just a guess there as I know nothing about this stuff.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/4704/1446968635_imag1478_1024x613.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/4704/1446968635_imag1479_1024x613.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </p><p><img src="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/4704/1446968656_imag1480_1024x613.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>The Peacekeeper</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Peacekeeper1966, post: 203860, member: 4704"] Afternoon all, Time for a bit of show n tell: My maternal Grandfather was a sheep grazier out around Gunnedah until the 60's when he retired to Tamworth and bought a smaller property at Nemingha, just so he could keep on terrorising his bank manager. He was not a man of pleasant disposition and my father and the old bastard did not get on. Apart from upsetting Christmas dinners and shooting Wedgetail Eagles out in the paddocks because they took his Peppin-Merino lambs and having a 'Chinaman' for a cook at the homestead, he also came across aboriginal stone tools from time to time. I have had a few handed down to me and here they are. One has been knapped and the other appears to have been ground along a stone groove. My mother has a few more, one very unusual in that it is an almost equilateral triangle wedge, each side about 4 inches long. Around the centre and from the base of the wedge, material has been removed but leaving the working/striking edge intact so as the tool can be grasped and used in a pushing or striking action. It is pretty heavy and thinking about how it may have been used, it seems to lend its self to hacking through heavy materials or maybe bone. Just a guess there as I know nothing about this stuff. [img]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/4704/1446968635_imag1478_1024x613.jpg[/img] [img]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/4704/1446968635_imag1479_1024x613.jpg[/img] [img]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/4704/1446968656_imag1480_1024x613.jpg[/img] The Peacekeeper [/QUOTE]
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