My best arrowhead yet, found it while I was digging for crystals in NC. Age/Type?

[AUhills]

I find most of my arrowheads and Indian artifacts in creeks and streams but this popped out of my hole while I was digging for crystals on top of a hill in Guilford County, NC. It's in much better condition than I'm used to finding. Figured I'd post it here because I don't know a whole lot about arrowheads and I'm curious whether someone can tell me how old it is and what this style is called? (1 7/8 inches long & very sharp edges.)

 

[Garscale]

I know very little about types up your way so I hope a local chimes in with all the info. My guess would be middle archaic so 4 thousand years old give or take. The material is fine fine fine. Super congrats. There will be .more where that came from.

 

[Relicgrubber]

Material is snowflake TQ. Can’t help on the ID tho.

Sweet find for sure. Congrats!

 

[Garscale]

Does the point back light well? Looks like some translucent streaks in it.

 

[Older The Better]

My best arrowhead yet, found it while I was digging for crystals in NC. Age/...

a while back we had a similar one that seemed to be split between afton and jacks reef pentagonal, I think jacks reef won, but size is important if it is one of the two. I’m not all that familiar with the size limits of the two types beyond afton is the larger of them.

 

[welsbury]

Wow beautiful stone

 

[AUhills]

Does the point back light well? Looks like some translucent streaks in it.

I just checked and it is actually slightly translucent where it is thinnest around the edges and at the point. It doesn't show up in the pictures as well but with a bright light the black material is translucent but the white specks are not. With an even brighter LED light I couldn't take pictures with it was like an x-ray, all the black material glowed white/translucent and all the white specks in the rock were dark solid/non-translucent. Super Cool!





Thanks for all the replies!

 

[Garscale]

Man Try a flashlight behind it and totally obscured from the camera. That's what I thought it would look like.

 

[newnan man]

Nice point, great material!

 

[GaRebel1861]

That’s an awesome find! Congratulations.

 

[Tony in SC]

All I can say is WOW!!!

 

[sandchip]

Bizarre and beautiful!

 

[antmike915]

Awesome material, very cool piece ��. The dirt preserved that one well, the hinge fractures on some areas are still there. When I dug in Florida years ago, the sugar sand would preserve them well, some looked like they were made yesterday.

 

[redbeardrelics]

Beautiful awesome point ! It appears to me to perhaps be a mottled form of rhyolite, and the base reminds me of a Decatur type point which often have a burin flaked basal edge, although I can not tell from the photos if this point has that feature or not. Overall the point look to be a kirk corner notched variety to me.

 

[tnmudman]

Thats a beautiful point! Never seen material like that. I though it looked kind of like petrified wood.

 

[AUhills]

Beautiful awesome point ! It appears to me to perhaps be a mottled form of rhyolite, and the base reminds me of a Decatur type point which often have a burin flaked basal edge, although I can not tell from the photos if this point has that feature or not. Overall the point look to be a kirk corner notched variety to me.

Thanks for the tip, it does definitely look like it probably is a Kirk Corner Notched type. Some quick research shows that would make it Early Archaic 9,500 -8,500 BP! Another cool thing is I'm 99.99% sure I know exactly where the stone came from. I've seen this exact rock only in one place before, the top of Shingle Trap Mountain in the Badin Lake area of the Uwharrie National Forest and a couple of lower peaks around it is everywhere. There is an old early 20th century quartz mine half way up the mountain a lot of people used to crystal prospect at but the mine is blocked off now and you can't relic hunt up above it because the mountain top is deemed a historic sight because of a pre-historic Indian quarry. The rock there and the few peaks around is identical to the rock this arrowhead is crafted from. The amount of white specks in the rock varies from peak to peak also and once you get away from the area there aren't any white specks in the rock at all, this stone is so unique to this cluster of mtns I should be able to narrow it down to the exact mtn it was sourced from. Next time I'm in the area I'm going to stop and get a couple of samples so I can show the source rock and the arrowhead together, I'll take a picture to post here too. Even though the pre-historic quarry would have been a few days hike from where I found the arrowhead I'm certain this must be where the rock came from.

Here is a link to a page I found with lots of interesting information on some pre-historic Indian quarries in this area: http://rla.unc.edu/Publications/pdf/ResRep25/Ch3.pdf

 

[Older The Better]

I felt good about jacks reef but I misspoke on the pentagonal it was jacks reef corner notch. Saw a Kirk similar too but seems every other point on this site gets called a Kirk.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

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