Last Find of 2009 - New to Forum

[Twitch]

I've been lurking on this forum for a while and finally broke down and signed up. I've recently relocated to the St Louis area and have started hunting again. Below is a picture of my last find from 2009 (12/26). I picked it up in Kentucky (still working on finding spots locally). It's a Lowe and exactly 2 " made out of Dover.

 

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[Th3rty7]

Nice point and interesting insitu pic. Sure is alot of debitage in there, did you flip that piece above the Lowe, looks like the base and left notch of another point from here. Couple of possible scrapers too maybe.

 

[joshuaream]

Yep, I hope you checked out the other rocks. I see four or five additional pieces I would have flipped over. That tan piece above it looks like a worked flaked and would have gone in the pocket.

 

[John G. Scoggins]

Nice find and welcome to the site.Good luck finding some sites closer to where you live.

 

[Twitch]

There were no other points / partials in the immediate area though I did find a decent thumbnail scraper 30-40' away. Oddly enough the guy I was hunting with found a metal trade point on the site, the first I've ever seen found. The piece of flint directly above the point has an obvious percussion bulb showing. I thought it may be a scraper but unfortunately it was not. This area has a TON of flint, lots of big flint, lots of colorful flint and lots of worked flint. I've only searched this exact location one time and found only this point and the scraper though at other similar sites in the immediate area there is so much flint that I've spent hours crawling around turning every possible exposure ear and tip over. Of course 99% of them are just flakes but every now and again you flip out a beauty that only had 1/8" of an inch exposed.

 

[Keokukjeff]

Welcome
Your on the right track...............Flake tools with a bulb of percussion found in Creeks and Rivers means there was heavy use of the local Chert/Flint source.....................
I dont so much as look for the Flake Tools in Creeks and Rivers either,its just that many times that will catch my eye being wide out in the open................
Nice point.................Insitu

 

[creek astronaut]

nice find and insitu.welcome to tnet

 

[pickaway]

Great find congrats...

 

[Tnmountains]

Nice finds and welcome to t-net. I find a lot of times with areas with heavy flint flakes a lot of it gets tumbled from the waves and causes them to looked worked on the edges. Hard to tell sometimes with river polish. Nice hunt and good luck with your new area.
Be curious how long it takes you being new to an area and an experienced hunter before you find something.
HH
TnMtns

 

[Twitch]

Thanks TNMountain. How long did it take me to find points moving to a new area? I found literally ~20 whole ones on the drive from PA to IL. Of course having rock hunting buddies to stop and spend a few days with on the way doesn't hurt... One of the guys I learned to hunt with in KY has since moved to OH/WV area and that makes for a productive trip once or twice a year. I arrived in IL about 4 weeks before my family moved out so I spent those weekends looking for sites. The very first field I went out into I found a Cahokia tri-notch with one of the basal corners missing. I've been back to that field a half dozen times and have found pottery pieces, two broken hardstone fragments, 6 - 8 pieces of ground / polished / well use-worn flint debitage, half or more of which I believe to me hoe resharpening flakes or fragment. I also found a hunk of galena about the size of a walnut which was pretty neat, but have found no other points. That has served as good training ground for my 4 year old who is now a pottery finding machine.

I found one other woodland (Hopewell) site in Pike Co IL. I stopped at a farm house to inquire about a specific field and the farmer told me he didn't own it or farm it so he couldn't give me permission. We got to talking and he asked if I'd like to look on his fields to which I responded "certainly". He then proceeds to tell me about how when Perino was cataloging the site 25 years ago he (Perino) stated that this particular site had the most colorful flint he had ever seen on a site. The corn was ~2' high but I looked anyways and found 2 decent Snyders, several great Hopewell cores, a ton of partials and more heat treated colorful flint than I've ever seen. He put me on 3 other sites in the same ~1-2 sq mile area and I found 3 or 4 more whole points. Hopewell, an Etley-ish knife and one maybe Hardin-ish. Needless to say I'm excited for the snow to melt to make another trip up there.

I'll pick up a boat in the next week or two and begin exploring the waterways shortly thereafter.

Take care and good luck.