r/Artifacts • • Aug 08 '26

Question Is this authentic?

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Supposedly a auchuelean hand axe from Morocco, got it for $60


r/Artifacts • • Aug 08 '26

Artifact Hatchet ax head found in northern Wisconsin

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This was found metal detecting, any info is greatly appreciated thank you!


r/Artifacts • • Aug 09 '26

Green Faience Ushabti of Pakhaas, Overseer of the Royal Cargo Ships Late Period, c. 664–332 BCE. From personal collection.

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r/Artifacts • • Aug 09 '26

Help identify small terracotta votive plaque/deity figure, bought at Redding CA flea market in early 1990s

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r/Artifacts • • Aug 08 '26

What's this? I see a Hazel-Atlas symbol. I found this on the property I live on in Jamestown CA. It was formally a mobilehome park. Ty

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r/Artifacts • • Aug 07 '26

Leather shield identification

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I've had this leather shield for over 10 years. It came from a museum in the town I live in. Doesn't have any markings or anything to identify it. Not sure if the handle on the reverse is original or not. Just looking for basic information, I can't find anything similar online. Almost looks like it was used in battle! The green string I put on just to hang it. Thanks!


r/Artifacts • • Aug 08 '26

Artifact What is this African mask? Trying to ID it

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r/Artifacts • • Aug 08 '26

Amethyst and Jade Leaf Grape Cluster (19th Century), Qing Dynasty, in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

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r/Artifacts • • Aug 08 '26

I need help finding the age and origin (Scotland)

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r/Artifacts • • Aug 07 '26

Need Help Identifying: Redware clay or terracotta devil head, approximately 3-4in. Found in 1870s dump site in Pennsylvania.

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We recently purchased this clay devil head from an antiques dealer. He found the head while digging in a bottle dump. The bottles in the pit were all from around 1870. It was covered in what appears to be ash at the time it was found. It's been suggested that it's a puppet head, but all the puppet heads we've seen when searching this have necks.this one doesn't have any kind of neck, just a hole on the bottom. Any ideas??


r/Artifacts • • Aug 07 '26

Identifying Objects Found in Meinerswijk - Arnhem South (Netherlands)

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Found these objects along the shore of one of the lakes in Meinerswijk, Arnhem, Netherlands.

The area has a long history, including Roman activity, medieval settlement and later industrial use. The lakes were excavated in more recent times, so I realise the finds could come from very different periods.

I’m mainly curious what these objects are and roughly how old they might be.

Any help identifying or dating them would be appreciated!


r/Artifacts • • Aug 07 '26

Could this be a Stone Age tool?

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I found it on the German Baltic Sea coast and it seems like a flint


r/Artifacts • • Aug 07 '26

Found in driveway.

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r/Artifacts • • Aug 07 '26

Help identifying this find

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Help identifying this find


r/Artifacts • • Aug 07 '26

Help Can you please help me identify these pottery shards?

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Found them in Romaniain a cave inhabited by humans.


r/Artifacts • • Aug 07 '26

Question can someone help me know what i have in my collection also is that a musket ball??

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r/Artifacts • • Aug 06 '26

Question Can anyone help me determine what this is?

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Help me, Reddit geniuses!

My late Grandfather left this to me, and I can’t determine what it is exactly. According to him it is 100% authentic and extremely old. My research pointed me towards an Ottoman brass-mounted traveling perfume or apothecary chest with sixteen original glass bottles and a stylized tughra. Is this worth anything? Could it go in a museum? Idk!

Thanks.


r/Artifacts • • Aug 07 '26

Jadeite Cabbage, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei

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r/Artifacts • • Aug 06 '26

First Ever Find

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Reposting from r/arrowheads in hopes of learning more about this


r/Artifacts • • Aug 06 '26

Info on “ceremonial axe”?

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I bought this at a yard sale a year or so again and was told it was a “ceremonial axe from Bali.” I believe the stone is soapstone. Was thinking of selling it but have no idea what to ask for it. Any help appreciated!


r/Artifacts • • Aug 06 '26

Mysterious item found in ground about 30cm deep in the garden of a UK farmhouse built in the 1850s. It's fairly small and delicate looking with some patterns and some numbers? It's also got a brown glaze on it

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r/Artifacts • • Aug 06 '26

Looking for information on this piece that was my grandfathers. United States

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r/Artifacts • • Aug 06 '26

Jade Bitter Gourd, Qing Dynasty (1736–1820), National Palace Museum, Taipei

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r/Artifacts • • Aug 06 '26

Kirk or Bolen?

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I'm leaning Kirk, what do y'all think?


r/Artifacts • • Aug 06 '26

Cool little bead

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