redbeardrelics
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I walked 3 sites last Thursday, probably for the last time this year as the crops are now getting too tall to respectfully walk through. I found several broken artifacts but only two intact points.
Items #212 & #216 are the tops and bottoms to a large Ironstone (ferrogenous quartzite) Poplar Island type point, which are not uncommon around here. they were about 10 feet apart, and I hoped they might fit together, but it was not to be.
Item #217 had me excited, as it looked like it might be intact as seen by the insitu, but again it was not to be. Too bad as it is well made and thin, and would have been one of my nicest Susquehanna Broadspears.
#218 was a lucky find that I picked up on my last stride out of the field. Lucky because it was the same spot where I took my first stride into the field, and had apparently missed seeing it the first time through. Attached is a head height insitu, and a close up. It is red jasper, and I am pretty sure it is a Meadowood type, with ground base, but has the tip and one barb missing.
The next site produced one intact point, #81 the quartz St. Albans bifurcate, insitu attached.
#84 the jasper Kirk corner notched would have been nice, but the odd break(s) make me think it has been hit by the plow(s).
The last site produced one intact point, Item #39, a broad stemmed point made of brown (sugar) quartzite. It is interesting in that it has alternate beveling on each side of the blade, what you might call a twist blade.
It may sound kind of sadistic, but I hope we get a lot of rain when tropical storm Arthur comes by this weekend, maybe I can get in one more hunt. HH
Items #212 & #216 are the tops and bottoms to a large Ironstone (ferrogenous quartzite) Poplar Island type point, which are not uncommon around here. they were about 10 feet apart, and I hoped they might fit together, but it was not to be.
Item #217 had me excited, as it looked like it might be intact as seen by the insitu, but again it was not to be. Too bad as it is well made and thin, and would have been one of my nicest Susquehanna Broadspears.
#218 was a lucky find that I picked up on my last stride out of the field. Lucky because it was the same spot where I took my first stride into the field, and had apparently missed seeing it the first time through. Attached is a head height insitu, and a close up. It is red jasper, and I am pretty sure it is a Meadowood type, with ground base, but has the tip and one barb missing.
The next site produced one intact point, #81 the quartz St. Albans bifurcate, insitu attached.
#84 the jasper Kirk corner notched would have been nice, but the odd break(s) make me think it has been hit by the plow(s).
The last site produced one intact point, Item #39, a broad stemmed point made of brown (sugar) quartzite. It is interesting in that it has alternate beveling on each side of the blade, what you might call a twist blade.
It may sound kind of sadistic, but I hope we get a lot of rain when tropical storm Arthur comes by this weekend, maybe I can get in one more hunt. HH
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