Creek hunt 3/3/09 ( with insitus )

[Th3rty7]

I decided to hit a nearby creek that had recently been washed out by rains and runoff. I found plenty of heartbreakers , but also some decent whole points and tools. Picture list, hafted scraper, broken savannah river, guilford drill?, humpback knife/adze?. I'm not real sure about the black resharpened drill piece, any ideas? The humpback piece is really cool, fits the hand perfectly. thanks for looking, have a good one.

 

[jmfg222]

nice finds one day i'm gonna find something in a creek.

 

[Th3rty7]

here's another pic of the red quartzite tool, and three heartbreakers.

 

[creek astronaut]

looks like you had a good day in the creek.congrats.

 

[*Molly*]

Looks like you had a good hunt. Where there are heartbreakers there are whole ones. Look forward to seeing what you find next hunt.

Any Idea on the material of the first point?

Molly.

 

[Muddy Feet]

Wow, looks like you had a good day.

 

[seger98]

Real nice finds & photos, thanks for posting

 

[Th3rty7]

thanks for the comments greg, muddy, and seger, appreciate it. Molly, I'm not absolutely sure of the material. I dont think it's local but have found it before. It actually reminds me of hornstone a bit, pretty far east of hornstone but possible I guess. What would you type the drill as? seeing how we're in roughly the same area. Would you type that piece as a guilford? I'm pretty sure the drill is made of Kanawha flint.

 

[*Molly*]

Does look like Hornstone ( a hafted scraper), its definetly not a local material. A friend of mine found material that originated from 500 miles away, so anythings possible.
I'd say the drill was a Guilford Yuma, still as good shoulders & base. I also agree with you on the material.

Third pic down would have been a good sized Savanah River.

You say the tool is red quartzite? It looks the same material as my notched axe, I still aint sure what material it is.

Nice to see some different materials from our states for a change.

Molly.

 

[Th3rty7]

I call it red quartzite, but a couple hunting buddies of mine call it rhyolite? not really 100% sure but it's some kind of low grade, coarse grained, igneous rock that outcrops in several areas within a few miles of me, it's everywhere.

 

[pickaway]

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