This Indiana Green Attica Chert is from Hancock County, a few miles west of my home, in 2006. It is about 2 inches in length. The base has a small nick, but what makes in interesting is the notch barbs have been intentionally clipped. I have had conversations at some relic shows about this and the "snapped base" styles of alteration. Opinions vary to say the least.
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Here is another lost lake I found 06/27/89 in Marion County. Measuring three inches long, by two and a half inches wide, the barb wings had been intentionally clipped, which does not distract from its esthetics. The material is Harrison County flint, also known as hornstone and Wyandote Chert, with crystal inclusions. Harrison County flint ranges in hue from a dark blue to black. When patina forms on Harrison County flint it can produce a brown to darker tan hue. In small areas on its surface it is possible to make out the darker hue of the natural material. Note the bull's eye common in many relics made of Harrison County flint.
The Lost Lake is an early Archaic dating between 10000 - 8000 B.P and is found in Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, Kentucky, southern Indiana, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia. Over the life span of a point, the blade shape changed due to the use of bevel reworking techniques, generally becoming less excurvate to straight edged and then incurvate while continually becoming shorter with each reworking. Cross sections range from biconvex on blades in pristine condition to rhomboid cross sections on highly reworked examples. Most examples of the type are finely serrated along the blade edges and in general exhibit high quality flaking and a symmetrical outline.
James W. Cambron and David C. Hulse named the Lost Lake point for examples that were recovered from the Lost Lake area of Limestone County, Alabama.
Here is another lost lake I found 06/27/89 in Marion County. Measuring three inches long, by two and a half inches wide, the barb wings had been intentionally clipped, which does not distract from its esthetics. The material is Harrison County flint, also known as hornstone and Wyandote Chert, with crystal inclusions. Harrison County flint ranges in hue from a dark blue to black. When patina forms on Harrison County flint it can produce a brown to darker tan hue. In small areas on its surface it is possible to make out the darker hue of the natural material. Note the bull's eye common in many relics made of Harrison County flint.
The Lost Lake is an early Archaic dating between 10000 - 8000 B.P and is found in Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, Kentucky, southern Indiana, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia. Over the life span of a point, the blade shape changed due to the use of bevel reworking techniques, generally becoming less excurvate to straight edged and then incurvate while continually becoming shorter with each reworking. Cross sections range from biconvex on blades in pristine condition to rhomboid cross sections on highly reworked examples. Most examples of the type are finely serrated along the blade edges and in general exhibit high quality flaking and a symmetrical outline.
James W. Cambron and David C. Hulse named the Lost Lake point for examples that were recovered from the Lost Lake area of Limestone County, Alabama.
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