Lunch hour walk in new field.

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Today at lunch I took a walk in a field I just recently got permission to go in. I only walked into the field about 50 yards at most. Found some flakes and one point. 20210622_122055.jpg 20210622_115537.jpg 20210622_115508.jpg
 

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Nice. Not all that far (in miles anyway) from one of my areas. The flint appears to be the same stuff. I am under the impression its the Onondaga Chert.
 

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Nice. Not all that far (in miles anyway) from one of my areas. The flint appears to be the same stuff. I am under the impression its the Onondaga Chert.

99% of the points and scrapers I've found have all been Onondaga chert. I've got one point made from rhyolite. Do you come to NY searching at all?
 

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Looks like most of those debitage flakes are the same material as the point. Congrats and thanks.

Yes they are all the same material in my opinion. As I said I only walked about 50 yds and total field is roughly 60 acres of tilled ground bordering a river the entire east side with a large creek on the North, and an old swamp off the S.W. corner.
 

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One of my places is just a few miles south of the border. At an artifact exhibit and show two weekends ago, I saw a lot of points from Towanda, PA, just 10 minutes south of the state line. 99% were made of Onondaga. One or two were rhyolite, which comes from (probably) York County, and the rest were Allentown PA Vera Cruz Jaspers. I didn't buy any. I have enough.
 

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One of my places is just a few miles south of the border. At an artifact exhibit and show two weekends ago, I saw a lot of points from Towanda, PA, just 10 minutes south of the state line. 99% were made of Onondaga. One or two were rhyolite, which comes from (probably) York County, and the rest were Allentown PA Vera Cruz Jaspers. I didn't buy any. I have enough.

I grew up near Oquaga, NY which was home of Joseph Brandt a mohawk chief during the Clinton, Sullivan campaign. Its maybe a 10 minute drive or so to the PA border from the house i grew up in. There's a lot of native history throughout the area there.
 

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Congrats! Rain tonight, should be good hunting tomorrow!
 

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I ended up getting to the spot at 4:30 or so and stayed until just about sundown. I have to say I'm kind of frustrated by what I've found or haven't but I can't help but to think something good has to be there. Anyway I found a bunch more flakes, a spent core possibly, a broke point, and lastly I'm not sure if it's natural or possibly a chopper of some sort. To me it appears to have been worked on the edge but it seems to be a hard material.
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