Tool of a Prehistoric Iron Age

Found In The Woods Along Paint Creek's North Fork!

The title of this blog, "Iron Age America," is also the title of my book about what evidence indicates was a pre-Columbian and prehistoric iron age in North America in general, and Ohio in particular. The publisher is Coachwhip Books of Landisville, Pa. At this writing the book is soon to be published. As soon as it is available, news of this will be published in this blog.

The casting in the mold was the final and convincing proof to me that there certainly was a prehistoric Iron Age in North America, long before the late 1790s when American pioneers began to populate the Northwest Territory. However, even previous to this, I had found other evidence that Ohio's pit iron furnaces were prehistoric. "Iron Age America" will present this evidence which is additional proof of their prehistoric origin. The casting in its mold was found at a site now in Chillicothe park land, but was the site was part of the land of the former Garrett farm in Ross County then.

This artifact is a cast iron hand axe. Hand axes were used in prehistoric times by prehistoric people. A cast iron hand axe was certainly an improvement over stone hand axes as a heavier and harder tool.