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flintmel

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Hi,
south eastern Connecticut. Unfortunately we rarely see the flints and jaspers that the rest of the country has. Here we consider those exotics.
So yes, most of our atifacts are quartz, quartzite, some argillite, ryolite and occassionally yellow, brown, red jasper from Penn. and some New York flints.
 

Charl

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I'm not far away, on Narragansett Bay. Those are great points, really like the bifurcate.
 

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flintmel

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Thanks, I have several from surface hunts but this is the first one I've ever found digging, in one of the other photos there's a small black flint bifurcate base that would have been gorgeous
 

Krisrock

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Hey FlintMel. Nice Frame ! The Center piece is a dead ringer for Classic Montell from Central Texas. Amazing the similarity, or maybe someone carried it there from here :dontknow: I take it that is not a standard type for your region ? Nice Posts ! Kris
 

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flintmel

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Up this way I believe they're referred to as a bifurcate, an early archic type, guessing approx. 8,500 BP?
 

Krisrock

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They are called Stemmed Bifurcated forms here as well, but the one in frame looks like a Montell
from between 3000 and 1000 years ago here. Your Triangles in another post closely resemble our
Early triangles, Matamoros and Tortugas. Some points have brothers everywhere. Your
bifurcated could be a Tautan river or Kanawha, not sure about East coast points I'm fairly new to
the hobby. Very nice frames. Kris
 

catherine1

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Nice artifacts Mel! I guess you started digging in your surface find area. Thanks for the pics/posts!
 

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Kais!! i agree it looks like a montell, but look at a [taunton river bifurcate] north eastern top [5] states and tell me how they compare to each other. FlintII i forgot to say that the [montell] is a bifurcated point too. Terry
 

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