A few beauties!

BobGuy · Jan 23, 2020

Here are a few of my finest points in color and quality. We are lucky to have a lot of colorful and high quality chert here in Southern Illinois.

These were all found in the same creek within probably the same half mile stretch.

I’m hoping to find a few more of this quality this year and frame them up together. This here represents a lot of hard work but it sure is worth it!

BG

The Grim Reaper · Jan 23, 2020

Very nice pieces.

welsbury · Jan 23, 2020

All beauties,that is a very good creek.

arrow86 · Jan 23, 2020

Top notch killer points , what do you put on them a mineral oil ? Really makes the colors pop

newnan man · Jan 24, 2020

Very nice points for sure, good variety too!

sandchip · Jan 24, 2020

arrow86 said:
Top notch killer points , what do you put on them a mineral oil ? Really makes the colors pop

Those are beauties. I'm guessing that the tumbling by and the tannins in the creek do it for you. Most of my creek finds come right out of the water looking like that. That Hardin is rockin'.

SD51 · Jan 24, 2020

Great finds, Congrats! Still waiting to find my first one.

ToddsPoint · Jan 24, 2020

Most if not all of those are made of Kaolin flint from Union Co. IL. I've hunted the stuff for many years for knapping stone. Gary

reuellis · Jan 24, 2020

Beautiful points! well done!

Tony in SC · Jan 24, 2020

Nature's helping you with the color, Nice points!!

BobGuy · Jan 24, 2020

I actually don’t put anything on them... however, oil from your hands helps to shine them up a little. After I find a new one I’ll put it on my desk for a few weeks and Pick it up every now and then. For the most part, those points came out of the creek looking like that..

Question, which ones are the “top notched” ones? I see corner and side notched and stemmed but no top notched.... I thought it was funny &#55357;&#56838;

BobGuy · Jan 24, 2020

ToddsPoint said:
Most if not all of those are made of Kaolin flint from Union Co. IL. I've hunted the stuff for many years for knapping stone. Gary

I’ve been there and it’s beautiful material. It’s about 3 hours south. Thank God we aren’t stuck with all Mill Creek chert because that doesn’t make for very pretty points. That’s not too far away from iron mountain. From what I’ve read mill creek chert was better for making larger tools.

I think the red point on the right is heat treated Burlington and potentially the table rock on left but I’m not very good at identifying materia though.. I actually brought a full bag of chert examples that I’ve collected from creeks around here to cahokia mounds and some of what they said I had was Salem, glacial till, st Genevieve, quartzite, Koalin and Burlington.