A little cute one.

[coteau]

Here is a nice little point I found this year. Because of its small size, 7/8" long and 11/32" between the notches, I believe it's an arrowhead but still over 1500 years old. Samantha Arrow is what I think it is, but that might not be correct. An Early/Middle Woodland type probably, or late Archaic. The material is patinated KRF, the blue patina occurs frequently in the Northern Plains soils...

If anyone has an opinion on type or good reference material please speak up... Does anyone know what the original Samantha Arrow points look like? According to some pro sources that I've read, they are side-notched not corner-notched or expanding stem forms.

 

[pickaway]

Nice find, I find alot in Ohio around that size...

 

[Airborne80]

Beautiful!!!!!

 

[larson1951]

that is very nice there Mr Coteau
i think i found a KRF piece like that also
i will look
the KRF sure can look good when it gets that full patina on it like yours

 

[SoIll]

How about an Avonlea?

 

[larson1951]

what do you think about this one

 

[larson1951]

SoIll,
do you think this is an avonlea
i have about a dozen avonleas but they are at Russy's house now
what do you and coteau think?

 

[coteau]

SoIll, I see similarities to Avonlea, but I don't think it's a true Avonlea. I think this point could be from the same general time period as Avonlea and could be one of the first true arrowheads (maybe an Avonlea influence?). Thanks for your thoughts on this...

Here is another pic of it next to a similar shaped but larger dart point. They're not from the same site, though. I think it's possible that these two points show a transition from atlatl to bow and arrow. I've heard some people say that small points (arrowhead size) could have been used with high speed, light weight, atlatl weaponry, whereas the larger dart points were used with a different type of atlatl technology. It's all just conjecture, though...

 

[larson1951]

Coteau,
what do you think about img 3668 and img 3669

 

[SoIll]

Coteau,
what do you think about img 3668 and img 3669

I think it would be safe to say early arrowheads. Besant was another I was reading about that looks about the same.

 

[quito]

Larson, your first point is a Northern Hanna.

Joel

 

[coteau]

Lars, the first one could be a Hanna. The second one looks like a Besant. The thing about Besants is that they look similar to much older Early Archaic side-notched points, e.g, Simonsen, Lookingbill, Hawken, etc. And to complicate things further, Besants come in a variety of basal shapes, such as side-notched and expanding stem forms. I think identifying points can be extremely difficult, especially when they don't fit into the classic forms.... I think only about 60% of the points in the Northern Plains can be positively identified...