Drills (post yours here)

Got any drills you'd like to show? Post em in here, your favorite, a frame, a collection, let's see some drills.

That last one is a stunner.

Nice drills Jeff, what are you typing the 5th from the left as?

 

Nice drills Jeff, what are you typing the 5th from the left as?

it has some grinding on the sides of the base, i would say that it started out as an archaic stemmed point

I have a few, the best being from Texas.. The first Ouchita Quartzite is the best..

Molly..

Here's some pictures of a few of my Drills.

here are what ive found so far in Tn

These are drills found by my grandpa in Northeastern Oklahoma.  The first one is my favorite and Neanderthal identified it as being a "Calf Creek" drill---its 4" long!  (Sorry about the really long pic!)

~sandcreek~

 I use to give my wife a hard time about running her feet through the gravel on our hunting trips.........pretty much thought of it as a waste of time. After she kicked this one out in 2006 I quit giving her any trouble.

Nice looking drills from across the country everyone! Here's a couple more from Kentucky.

here are few
I will post some more
I think I have a bunch more someplace

OK............I have posted all of these at one time or another but, these are some drills that I have found.  The Fort Ancient piece is actually a heavily resharpened knife.
Chuck

thanks pickaway
I have some more of those side notched drills
should I try to find them and post them on this thread??

Man.... your drills are beautiful!!! I do not have any except for a possible that I just found today. I will post it as a new topic and you guys can be the judge. Great follow up posts to this awesome topic!

killer stuff gals and guys.i havent had much luck in the drill dept.got many broken ones.good thread 37,so how many of you are in the camp that believe not all "drills" are drills but are actually exhausted knives?good luck hunting

killer stuff gals and guys.i havent had much luck in the drill dept.got many broken ones.good thread 37,so how many of you are in the camp that believe not all "drills" are drills but are actually exhausted knives?good luck hunting

Yeah I'm with you on that, I think alot of heavily resharpened knives are exhausted pieces and often called drills by mistake. You know you have a drill when you see the grinding marks from rotation use. The first " drill " in this pic is imo a heavily resharpened knife, probably a couple resharpenings from drill form. The next four are true drills imo and have the signs of rotation wear on the distal end, the last piece on the right is a salvaged lost lake with a tip worked into a chisel.

very nice examples 37,you are on point on your info 

killer stuff gals and guys.i havent had much luck in the drill dept.got many broken ones.good thread 37,so how many of you are in the camp that believe not all "drills" are drills but are actually exhausted knives?good luck hunting

Actually most drills aint drills they are clothes pins..especially the knotched types..

killer stuff gals and guys.i havent had much luck in the drill dept.got many broken ones.good thread 37,so how many of you are in the camp that believe not all "drills" are drills but are actually exhausted knives?good luck hunting

Actually most drills aint drills they are clothes pins..especially the knotched types..

I've heard that theory, clothes pins and even ornamental wear, and ear plugs too. I personally think bone would have been used for this, just my speculative opinion.  That's why I'm hesitant to call any piece a drill unless it has the rotational wear use from drilling holes in stone, wood, etc.   

killer stuff gals and guys.i havent had much luck in the drill dept.got many broken ones.good thread 37,so how many of you are in the camp that believe not all "drills" are drills but are actually exhausted knives?good luck hunting

Actually most drills aint drills they are clothes pins..especially the knotched types..

you make a good point molly,i do think you and 37 both have valid arguments,i was thinkin kind of the opposite though.i have always thought that alot of the unnotched pieces that have no hafting area were used possibly as pins.are you saying that once the notched point or blade was used up they were used as clothes pins?

Morning,

Here is a nice Dalton  "T" drill I found a few years back, and a small pencil drill.

Atlantis

killer stuff gals and guys.i havent had much luck in the drill dept.got many broken ones.good thread 37,so how many of you are in the camp that believe not all "drills" are drills but are actually exhausted knives?good luck hunting

Actually most drills aint drills they are clothes pins..especially the knotched types..

you make a good point molly,i do think you and 37 both have valid arguments,i was thinkin kind of the opposite though.i have always thought that alot of the unnotched pieces that have no hafting area were used possibly as pins.are you saying that once the notched point or blade was used up they were used as clothes pins?

I "speculate" the exhausted knotched points were used as clothes pegs, to keep clothes together..the reason I think this (& also discussed this with a few pro's I know) is, if I see no polished areas on the tips of the pins/points/drills? then I believe they weren't used as drills.  Drills show highly polished areas on them.
Well, with reference to your comment about points with no hafting areas being used as pins, again if there is no polished areas, I would say they "could" have been used as pins/ornaments but, pencil drills are commonly known with highly polished tips, so its all down to the polished areas, I guess..jmho.

Molly.

Very nice drills people.  Here are a couple of mine I like.

Damn thats a killer dove drill lostlake...

huh my past post gone? heres some ive found.

I keep thinking about how much some of these drills remind me of jet airplanes of all types and sizes

all the way back to the first X-15 or before to modern day

what do you tnetters think?

Larson1951

I keep thinking about how much some of these drills remind me of jet airplanes of all types and sizes

all the way back to the first X-15 or before to modern day

what do you tnetters think?

Larson1951

maybe ancient aliens made them??just joking,they do resemble the outline of an x-15

Mine are not worth taking pictures of.  You guys have some great stuff. Some  reason in this area they were used until broke. Sorry for not  being  able to contribute.
TnMtns

Here is my humble point, perhaps a drill.  I was walking in a field near home today with my 2 yr old and found it.  Bryan

Here are two KRF drills
they sure don't compare to the quality of some of the drills posted on this thread but here they are
the smaller one sure is sharp
Larson1951

Nice show everyone!!

 I love these show me threads!! Always brings out the good stuff. Here are a few of mine. Most I find are broken , but I have been lucky enough to pick up a few complete ones too.


                                           Twig.

Good looking handful of drills Twig. I really like the last t drill and the fine black one. Thanks for the addition.


Here's one I found this Sept. with some insitu pics, I started getting excited when I saw the bifurcated base sticking out of the ground, I was surprised it was a drill.

Nice looking drills from across the country everyone! Here's a couple more from Kentucky.

very nice sonora!

OK............I have posted all of these at one time or another but, these are some drills that I have found.  The Fort Ancient piece is actually a heavily resharpened knife.
Chuck

That is a cool T drill, in-situ to boot!

killer drills larson,twig and 37.i am very jealous.i have had real bad luck in the drill finding department.always broke.thx for sharing the pics

Heres 4 of my most "drill like" pieces.  I'm sure of the blue grey one but its a double break. The crescent shaped one I always thought of as a scraper but some of the other pics here made me see it as a possible multitool.   

Nice drills everyone.

all_atv,

 they look like knife blades that would fit in a slotted rib bone handle
 but I do not know if such things were used in your area or not
 larson1951

Thanks for keeping this interesting folks.

This is a paddle drill from Shelby county, Ky, material is Fort Payne chert.

some of mine

Nice ones jmfg222

Northern Oklahoma drills all personal family finds.

My wife's Dalton is my fav.

jmfg222, nice looking frame of drills, are they all Ga. pieces?

 sidmind, the Dalton is killer, also really like 11 and 1 o'clock.

agate side notch drill
could be a re-sharpened point

Great drills Sidmid & larson, heres a insitu of a drill i found today 12/15.

Damn pick, looks like you had a goodun today. That piece of ridge looks alot like your blade. I'd like to see those pieces in hand if you get a chance.

thirty7 all north GA south TENN.

Hi everyone, I'm new to this site and really enjoy seeing all the fantastic finds. I have a rather small artifact collection, but thought I would add to this thread. Here's an insitu of a creek find from this year, the color fades to more of a tan when dry.

Hey there planB thats a killer drill & insitu Congrats...

Nice Plan b, great picture, and heck of a find. Welcome aboard.

OK............I have posted all of these at one time or another but, these are some drills that I have found.  The Fort Ancient piece is actually a heavily resharpened knife.
Chuck

You know what?  That little birdie could be a decatur.  Is it ground? 

my drill collection

These are a few of the last finds from '09 and the only drills I've ever found.

welcome to tnet planB that is a killer relic and killer pic

real nice collection of drills wildcatman,nice drill find RichPa

Killer frame wildcatman!....Nice insitu pic and finds Rich.

Nice frame littlejohn, you're into some really old stuff down there. What's that middle point, the centerpiece? what a killer!

nice frame littlejohn,is that a peisker diamond(did i spell that right?)in the center of the frame?dont think i have seen one posted here on tnet,killer relic

Nice frame littlejohn, you're into some really old stuff down there. What's that middle point, the centerpiece? what a killer!

guess we were droolin at the same time.lol.

thx for the link to the post lj,i joined a month after that.after reading that thread and looking in a couple books i would be inclined to type it as a diamond regardless of what the "experts" think.lol,but then again i dont know the types from that area other than what i have read.great find, too bad you didnt find anymore in that sandpit.so what did you end up typing it as?thx for sharing the pics

HEY lj,just looked at those other post,killer stuff dude.that boatstone is killer and i really dig the guns.its alright you dont spell so good,you dont have to when you are finding relics like that!thx for the show

Thanks for linking up those older posts littlejohn. That pistol and boatstone are incredible, two of the nicest finds I've seen here, banner finds for sure. 

I have some shaped like that. My dad picked them up in Algeria. I always thought they were some kind of arrow point.

i though it was a ceremonial bat wing gary,
but  Neanderthal ,said it was a
Caddoan knife,which he said is a type of gary
i came to learn he is a very very smart man.and i have to belive what he said
.as i know he knows tons more than me.
if it was a peisker diamond, it be out of area,and mostly the best ever seen.
i sent it in many years ago,to get it paper.
the man sent it back,and would not paper it
he said , its a florida point.and i could not have found it in texas
but it was, found in texas.
there was 4 people dugging when it was found.
so i really just don't know,i know there been a lot of people who wants to buy it.
it want be sold as long as i am alive

hmmmmm.........matt is a smart fella and knows his artifacts.i have never seen a caddoan knife that had shoulders and a stem??i could very well be wrong.have you lj?I dont buy into the thinking that types didnt travel out of their so called "distribution range"it is what it is and doesnt matter where the heck you found it,it is an exact match for a peisker diamond point imo,but it is disqualified because it was found in texas?no biggie i guess,its a killer relic regardless what anyone wants to call it

 This has been a great post. Have enjoyed seeing so many nice artifacts. 

Some more drills, first handful is personal finds, check out that oddball on the left, strange piece...never really seen anything like it. Second one I found last year, imo it was either a Kirk or Lost Lake. The last three found there way into my collection somehow, I dont have any info on them.

   Great posts, all of them! This is the closest thing i have to a drill, maybe thirty7 will give me half credit for this one.

Nice, great drill man...it's pretty similar in form and material to my second piece I posted this evening. Va. find?

Nice, great drill man...it's pretty similar in form and material to my second piece I posted this evening. Va. find?

          Yes it was, found in the creek behind the house.

Trying to get a decent picture of my Dad's finds in Algeria. My son mounted them in a case for a Boy Scout "show & Tell" and caulked the back to keep prying fingers out of the display. From half way around the world and look like they came from the same Wall Mart.