A nice day out, a flake knife, and an old pipe

[MarkDz]

Got out for a short hunt on Sunday. The site is at the confluence of a river and a creek and I'm pretty sure it was a hunting camp since I find a lot of flakes, scrapers, broken points, and heat cracked rock. On Sunday I found a nice sharp uniface flake knife (or maybe an end scraper?) and some smaller blades, scrapers, flakes, etc.

No 12" crystal Clovises but it was a nice day anyway.

I've also been researching a pipe I found last year. A friend said it was a trade pipe... not sure. Seems to be a very early European style (like 1600s-early 1700s) but there were few white settlers in my area then. Any ideas?

 

[uniface]

Your main piece is what's called a retouched flake -- unmistakably a tool.

 

[Tnmountains]

On the pipe I would say colonial era. Nice finds.Looks like its a good place to hunt
HH
TnMtns

 

[MarkDz]

Tanx for the replies

 

[Tnmountains]

Its funny how a good site will have the remains of many cultures. I would sweep with a metal detector. Double the fun.

 

[Airborne80]

That is a fine pipe stem for sure. I find a ton of those at a site that sounds just like yours. I have many broken pipe fragments, lots of stems and one complete bowl. I would love to get a copy of that chart that you have in the background. is it something that would be easy for you to scan? if not.... please tell me the publication and I will buy it. In any case... great finds. Happy Thanksgiving!