Quarry digging tool 36AD0046

3D Model

Quarry digging tool uncovered by archaeologist Robert Bodnar during the summer of 2022 on a satellite quarry workshop site located in south central Pennsylvania. The workshop site is adjacent to the probable prehistoric Catoctin Metarhyolite quarry site first discovered by Smithsonian archaeologist William Henry Holmes in 1892. The digging tool is a weathered local metarhyolite. It weighs 2lbs.14oz., measures 21 cm. long, 12.5cm. wide and 29cm. in diameter at the bit. The bit is worn from use, pole is natural. The digging tool was located less than one half meter from the hammerstone tool kit cache. All occupied the same archaeological stratum. The same form and characteristics of this digging tool was observed on other digging tools from other nearby quarry sites. Imaging done by Direct Dimensions.