✅ SOLVED Small projectile point or maybe something else ?

[tamrock]

Had a nice day here on the front range of Colorado yesterday, so I went out to have a look at a place I've found some limited artifacts. I did find this little point and I wonder if it's a projectile or more of a drill? What I found yesterday is in the 1st picture. In the 2nd picture is one I found along the Arkansas River North of Buena Vista, Colo back in the 1980s. They just seem to small to be mounted to an arrow shaft to me, so maybe they're a drill bit or something like that? I think there was a dude spying on me off in the distance in that 3rd picture.

 

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[willjo]

Nice find, 1st looks like small clovis

 

[NCPeaches]

Looks worked to me. Reckon what that dude was doing out there, it's beautiful country.

 

[tamrock]

Looks worked to me. Reckon what that dude was doing out there, it's beautiful country.

well he couldn't watch me anymore after I dropped below the hill out of his sight. Could have been a cop as they do drive those Chevy Trailblazer's.

 

[rock]

Yes they both look like points to me. The 1st one even has a impact fracture on the tip. Story to be told as to how it was used. And the guy dang thats just weird.

 

[quito]

Looks like a small McKean point to me, (I have one like it) and not a drill.

 

[arrow86]

Nice finds .... I like the colors. So do you find them just laying on top ground or usually hunt washouts?

 

[jamey]

really neat material thanks for sharing

 

[tamrock]

Nice finds .... I like the colors. So do you find them just laying on top ground or usually hunt washouts?

These hills get washed all over in snow melt and rain. There's just one hill in the whole area around me that has yielded any finds. It has a perfect viewing point with a flat and level top. It sits where a spring feed steam and two creeks with names meet. It was never cultivated as the soil is much to rocky imo. The only thing that was excavated was a 19th century railroad that has long been torn up and I have found flakes and chips along it as I believe they were maybe dug up from when they laid the tracks. You can see the old railroad grade in the 3rd picture running half way up along the hill on the other side of the gully in front of me. I also find old shotgun shells that date from the late 19th to early 20th century around the area and I bet I'm not the first person who has noticed Indian artifacts could be found in and a round there. My best find was a very nice mano stone I found the very first time I got the notion to check out that hill. I walked right up to it and it was laying there. I suspect it was uncovered by a very heavy rain fall we had back on Sept. 2013.

 

[arrow86]

Sounds like a cool spot..... Especially with the railroad history. I just got done binge watching "hell on wheels " ...story line follows expansion of the railroad west makes you appreciate the hard work put in but regret the decisions made towards the natives.

 

[sandchip]

My first thought was Folsom. Some are pretty small, but yours are sho'nuff tiny!

 

[unclemac]

yep, the later points got pretty small. True bow and arrow points, i find a lot that small.

 

[Triumph]

Nice find, 1st looks like small clovis

I've been looking at Clovis points all day that's what I see too.

 

[quito]

I've been looking at Clovis points all day that's what I see too.

Have you seen any an inch long? I doubt it.

 

[Buckleberry]

Sweet points...is that reddish one a jasper?
I rafted the Arkansas many moons ago when I lived in Colorado...there's a bad rapid down there called the Sledgehammer.

 

[chase2]

Plains Trianglular
Time Period : 400-170 B.P.
Location : Northern Plains states
Shape : Arrow Points

Description:
A small size, thin, triangular arrow point with a straight to concave base and sharp basal ears.
The point on the right found around Buena Vista is made of Trout Creek Chert. The One on the left I am not sure on the lithic.

 

[tamrock]

Sounds like a cool spot..... Especially with the railroad history. I just got done binge watching "hell on wheels " ...story line follows expansion of the railroad west makes you appreciate the hard work put in but regret the decisions made towards the natives.

Plains Trianglular
Time Period : 400-170 B.P.
Location : Northern Plains states
Shape : Arrow Points

Description:
A small size, thin, triangular arrow point with a straight to concave base and sharp basal ears.
The point on the right found around Buena Vista is made of Trout Creek Chert. The One on the left I am not sure on the lithic.

I've never heard of Trout Creek chert. Thanks for the info.

 

[tamrock]

Have you seen any an inch long? I doubt it.

Me either. It's a dinky one and that's why I question the true function of it.

 

[Tony in SC]

Those are great!! I really like the small stuff. Tony

 

[chase2]

I've never heard of Trout Creek chert. Thanks for the info.

Trout Creek chert starts about 6 miles east of Buena Vista on US 285 and goes to about 25 miles north west of the royal gorge. The most common color is brown with black dots but the red is the next common color. I think the other lithic may be a Kansas chert type. I can rule out Elizabeth chert for sure.