LARGE Museum Quality 3/4 Grooved Stone Axe Super Hard Black Stone Tennessee Find

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LARGE Museum Quality 3/4 Grooved Stone Axe Super Hard Black Stone Tennessee Find:
$40.00

Here is a nice ancient 3/4 grooved stone axe in excellent condition. Beautiful banded black hard stone with a good heavy patina. Look at the beautiful form on this axe. This axe has many layers and bandsrunningthroughthe stone. Perfect form. Original untouched patina.Some damage on the hammer poll end as pictured but over all an A+ axe.Excavated on the Long Island of the Holston in Kingsport, TN in 1968 by a local digger. Fresh to the market. Just a great axe!
HISTORY OF THE LONG ISLAND OF THE HOLSTON
Long Island of the Holston was for many years a jealously guarded possession of the Cherokee Indians. It became the scene of momentous events during the early years of exploration and settlement in the Old Southwest, the springboard for the initial settlement of Kentucky and Middle Tennessee. In its environs was fought the battle that gave those feeble settlements precious time to consolidate their positions during the first 2 years of the American Revolution. Long Island derived strategic importance from its location just east of the junction of the North and South Forks of the Holston. Nearby was the crossing of the Great Indian Warpath, a major trail to the northeast from central Tennessee. Thus the island figured significantly in the colonial struggle with the Indians that began in the middle of the 18th century.