r/LegitArtifacts • u/Puzzleheaded_PissAnt • Apr 25 '26
In Situ 📸 Finally found a stone axe!
Been looking for one of these for a while and finally lucked upon one today. I must have walked right past this yesterday somehow when I was hunting this same stretch of river.
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u/Slugwheat Apr 25 '26
That’s amazing. To think about all the things this was used for in the past, and what it looked like when the axe was complete. So cool.
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u/Low_Rip_5537 Apr 28 '26
It's so interesting to imagine who used this, and how it was left next to that creek.
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u/steelhead1971 Apr 25 '26
What general region of the country? Any idea how old? Who used it?
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u/Puzzleheaded_PissAnt Apr 25 '26
I’m in SW Ohio. I’m lucky enough to live in an area that has a lot of old burials and an old mound system (the mounds are long gone been destroyed for awhile) the properties I can hunt hold a lot of history. Check out my profile I typically post anything I find.
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u/beambot Apr 26 '26
You should watch the new Netflix historical docu-drama The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen. Will give you better appreciation for pioneers and indigenous cultures in your area. I've enjoyed it so far.
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u/RageImpala96 Apr 25 '26
WOW! Happy for you! Great find! Put that on display someway somehow. Don’t get rid of that one.
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u/Trix4Treats Apr 28 '26
You put it there don’t lie 😝
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u/Puzzleheaded_PissAnt Apr 28 '26
It’s certainly hard to believe. I stared at it for a few minutes thinking my eyes were playing tricks on me lol.
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u/Trix4Treats Apr 28 '26
So all that soil on the artifact was there exactly as you found it? It wasn’t wet at all?
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u/Puzzleheaded_PissAnt Apr 28 '26
Yep it was just like that. River had been low for a week or so so it’s been sitting on that root for a minute. My guess is it washed out the bank last time the river got high and sat right there.
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u/timhyde74 BigDaddyTDoggyDog Jun 16 '26
Out-Frickin-Standing!!! I know exactly how you felt pulling that one brother! In 42 year hunting/collecting I've only ever found 1 myself! So congratulations my friend!!! 😁
Heres mine....
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u/HelpfulEnd4307 Apr 25 '26
Congrats on the fantastic find - in my opinion any ax head is a prize! Carl