Arrowhead found on beach....

[Chitlin]

Hello all,

I was wondering if anyone could tell me about this point found on Folly Beach S.C.

I believe it was pumped up during a recent re-nourishment project from 3 miles offshore. I saw a larger point found, with my own eyes, soon after the project was over, made from the same type material which looks more like a slate or shale than a flint or chert. The edges are cut at weird angles rather than being flat.

I was swinging the machine when I spotted it...with my luck ( I only find bling jewelry and change) I'm hoping it's not some recent .025$ piece someone bought at a tourist trap and chucked it on the beach just to harass someone like me... ... I think it's authentic

Thanks in advance for any insight yall might provide.

Chitlin

 

[ohio]

I would simply call it an archaic bevel. The "edges cut at weird angles instead of being flat" is called beveling and was a way to resharpen a blade while conserving as much size as possible. I believe it is made of rhyolite.

Chuck

 

[Th3rty7]

Nice old find! might be a Bolen bevel? I agree with Ohio on the material.

 

[Tnmountains]

So not an edgefield scraper like Americus finds right? Yeah man you found something way older than Bling. Nice eye ball find. Its a keeper.
TnMtns

 

[Treefrog]

ya ive got a nice one a lot like that, it is beveled on each side in the opposite direction
i think its made from knox chert?

 

[jpitt1970]

If that were found here in the Florida panhandle, I would call it a Bolen bevel...really nice Archaic piece whatever it is.

Jon

 

[uniface]

OK. Both Archaic era beveled corner-notches.

First one is probably Early Archaic, given that it was dredged up from offshore and the sea levels have risen dramatically since then. In the first picture you can see where the tight toe has been recently chipped off (fresh interior surface is a different color than the weathered exterior). There was too much overlapping of point types then to assign many of them to a specific variety -- what they made was often like they were ordering dinner from a Chinese menu : this kind of basal shape + this kind of notching + this kind of blade re-working, &c.

The second point is right beveled. Which, as distant memories begin to filter back into awareness, is a Dalton hallmark. (Later as well ?) If Dalton, also Early Archaic, but it looks thick and like a corner notch.

Neat stuff