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Offline SA

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fossil spear ?
« on: June 13, 2010, 02:34:28 pm »
a farmer showed this to me in noble co. okla. while i was surveying , he had it in his field. looks like a clovis spear but im  no expert. it is about 8 ft long embeaded in limestone , pretty cool, tell me what you think......
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Re: fossil spear ?
« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2010, 10:16:59 pm »
 That's real hard to tell from the pictures.
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« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2010, 11:32:14 pm »
i'm guessing that limestone was laid down long before man walked across okla.  i could be wrong... 
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« Reply #3 on: June 14, 2010, 01:20:19 am »
see if that helps sorry for the bad pic.

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Re: fossil spear ?
« Reply #4 on: June 14, 2010, 01:49:34 am »
i spotted it in the first pic
but im with mechslasher on this one
dont know how it would have gotten in the limestone
but i think if it was mine i would take it to the closest archeologist i could find and see what they think
could be hes yanking your chain too  ;)
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Re: fossil spear ?
« Reply #5 on: June 14, 2010, 10:00:01 am »
 I'd lean more towards a fossilized cattail or other plant life.
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