Rhode Island Point

[StringFellowHawk]

Found this a while ago on an island is Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. Any one have any thoughts or information on it. It was on the edge of an eroded shoreline. I was actually looking for "sea glass" and happened to find this insted.

 

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[Charl]

Very nice! It's a good size Late Woodland Levanna point. Appears to be made of jasper. Thought Attleboro red felsite at first, but that spot of yellow in the red tells me jasper. Boy, that's huge for a Levanna. Great find.

 

[rock]

Welcome to the site and nice big triangular point

 

[larson1951]

Very nice! It's a good size Late Woodland Levanna point. Appears to be made of jasper. Thought Attleboro red felsite at first, but that spot of yellow in the red tells me jasper. Boy, that's huge for a Levanna. Great find.

wow you are right......it is huge......what would it have been used for......atlatl dart point?

 

[Charl]

wow you are right......it is huge......what would it have been used for......atlatl dart point?

Steve, I've seen Levanna points made of quartz that exceeded 3 inches. Since Levannas and the smaller Late Woodland triangles are seen as arrow points, it has been suggested that very large ones found on coastal sites might have been harpoon points. This was suggested by the late Jeff Boudreau, who wrote our most recent, and best, New England typology guide.

 

[StringFellowHawk]

Any idea how old it is? I thought the red stone(Jasper), was very strange for the area.

 

[sandchip]

That thing is badass. Great find!

 

[Charl]

Any idea how old it is? I thought the red stone(Jasper), was very strange for the area.

Levannas are roughly in the 500-1200 year old range. Two sources for jasper used in Woodland times here were Pennsylvania jasper and Limerock jasper from Lincoln, RI. Visually, it's impossible to distinguish the two. Assuming it is jasper, usually need heat treating to get it red like that.

 

[DigIron2]

nice!