Blades, Preforms, Knives

[Th3rty7]

Got any you'd like to share? Post them in here.

 

[Tnmountains]

Two Tennessee River knifes and a unifaced blade I found together in a cache. Fort Payne chert and Hornstone.

 

[moundbuilder]

Two Tennessee River knifes and a unifaced blade I found together in a cache. Fort Payne chert and Hornstone.

Wow, those are beautiful. I love the Ft. Payne. We find a lot of Hornstone but not much Ft. Payne like you Tennessee guys do. Here's my best Big Sandy that I found in North Central Kentucky. Some people say the material is Dover, I say Ft. Payne. Even though Dover & Ft. Payne is identical in it's geological and geographical outcropping and distribution it has different colors and traits from where it's mined, hence the difference in names. As a hunter from the Volunteer state where you find more of this stuff in a day than I do in a year, what say ye in regard to the material- Dover or Ft. Payne? Thanks!

 

[Th3rty7]

Nice cache of blades Tn., I would think a cache like that would hold alot of a value to an archaeologist because of the two distinctively different blade forms.


Nice Big Sandy MB, Do you think the material on that point could be Haney chert? It was the first thing that came to mind.

http://www.theaaca.com/lithnics/haney.htm

 

[moundbuilder]

Nice cache of blades Tn., I would think a cache like that would hold alot of a value to an archaeologist because of the two distinctively different blade forms.


Nice Big Sandy MB, Do you think the material on that point could be Haney chert? It was the first thing that came to mind.

http://www.theaaca.com/lithnics/haney.htm

Hmmm, I don't think Haney, most Haney is translucent to a degree (at least around the edges) and is a brown-sugarish looking variant of Carter Cave (Paoli). We find some Haney and it's not like that.

 

[Tnmountains]

Two Tennessee River knifes and a unifaced blade I found together in a cache. Fort Payne chert and Hornstone.

Wow, those are beautiful. I love the Ft. Payne. We find a lot of Hornstone but not much Ft. Payne like you Tennessee guys do. Here's my best Big Sandy that I found in North Central Kentucky. Some people say the material is Dover, I say Ft. Payne. Even though Dover & Ft. Payne is identical in it's geological and geographical outcropping and distribution it has different colors and traits from where it's mined, hence the difference in names. As a hunter from the Volunteer state where you find more of this stuff in a day than I do in a year, what say ye in regard to the material- Dover or Ft. Payne? Thanks!

I have to run to a class but will come back and want to fugure out what the material is. I will try to find something similiar. I have been downlading pictures on Tn cherts for I.D'S. What thinks you of buffalo river chert? I will be back later.
Thirty7 thank you for the comments about the knifes. This forum as a collective seems to know more than most archeologist. I have my thoughts on the tn river knifes and blade.Not sure I have I.D them correctly due to the flaking on the one,,, the other was just rough material. These were made fast in my opinion by the same person for a particular reason

 

[Th3rty7]

* For Buckhunter

This Flint Ridge Adena leaf blade is one of a cache found in Elyria twp. Lorain co. Ohio. I got this one a couple years ago when the cache was split up and sold individually. It was the nicest and widest of the cache imo, the others were more typical of Adena blades in shape. It does look like a North though. It's really thin and translucent on the sides and has a vein (lightening bolt) of quartz running through it.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Man oh man!!! Those are some killer blades guys. I don't know why I hadn't opened this thread before now. I guess I just never saw it. Here's a few of my better ones.

 

[Buckhunter]

HOLY FRIKIN COW. Thirty7 that is Awesome. In the sunlight pic at the top left you can see a small point of light shining threw the flint. thanks and thanks again!!

 

[Th3rty7]

HOLY FRIKIN COW. Thirty7 that is Awesome. In the sunlight pic at the top left you can see a small point of light shining threw the flint. thanks and thanks again!!

Not a problem dude, appreciate the comments.


SRV, great looking blades, my favs would be that killer bi pointed, and the large black Stanfield or Cobbs...is that Cosh or Kanawha?

 

[SoIll]

TN river blade

 

[Tnmountains]

TN river blade

Nice SoIll
Looks very big !! That is the first time I have seen another posted here. I always thought the flaking was wrong on mine

 

[The Grim Reaper]

HOLY FRIKIN COW. Thirty7 that is Awesome. In the sunlight pic at the top left you can see a small point of light shining threw the flint. thanks and thanks again!!

Not a problem dude, appreciate the comments.


SRV, great looking blades, my favs would be that killer bi pointed, and the large black Stanfield or Cobbs...is that Cosh or Kanawha?

The Cobbs is made from Kanawha. Thanks for the compliments.

 

[choo]

Heres some of the blades and knives I have found over the years.

 

[choo]

Heres some more.

 

[uniface]

Yo, Choo --

You take real good care of that square knife in pictures 3/4 !!!

 

[Th3rty7]

Three similar archaic blades and some drawings I did of the flaking.

 

[larson1951]

hey thirty7
this is sure a good thread you started here
over a couple hundred nice pieces
i will post more here maybe tomorrow
thanks,
lars