I was looking through some flint I found last year and took a second look at this and I am not sure what it is. Any guesses from anyone???? I dug it at a spot in Georgetown.

kind of cone shaped


top view


pecking or use wear around the base


view from what I call the bottom. It's pretty flat


maybe a core they turned into a hammer stone or something?

my guess would be a hammer stone/pecking stone.very unusual tho.

That was my guess as well Pat. The cone shape of it is what peaked my curiosity.
I have a couple more stones to like the one SH found recently, (the big flint game stone or hammer stone), and I also have one that is flatter more like a discodial. I took pics of them to post and wouldn't you know it, I was fighting with the camera and deleted the darn things so maybe I will get some more pics and post them.
You just never know what you may find.

single platform core.

We call that a turtle-back scraper

I got a small one myself just yesterday



It's definitely going in my hammer stone bucket.
Whether a core or shaped, the non smooth distressed state of the impact area is very distinctive.

If you happen to have a Clovis or other Paleo point around with a ground base, under magnification the same shattering will be evident ( "ground base" stems are not sanded smooth but are delicately scraped, shattering the flint without creating a flake )

E, You may be personaly responsible for saving a true tool from the dump pile and into the display frames of
tool collectors..

Just a quick look at "core" flint might show that shattered hammer stone effect.

I just got another one at Floyds that just accidentally looks like yours with a slight conical design to it.



Larry has found 2 of these around the dig....Not quite conical but all are near round.

Nother one, from Chrisner's 6-3



fractured all the way round