My smallest complete point to date.

[Older The Better]

Continuing my leaf blower experiment, i was out this afternoon blowing debris to keep the paths clear. I wasn’t really looking too hard, with what had to be mostly dumb luck I saw this little point. It’s a jug hill (ozark version of Madison) probably made of Burlington. I knew it was tiny but when I got it home I realized it’s smaller than anything else I’ve found, maybe a tie with one that has tip damage but certainly the smallest complete point.

Here it is compared to the last point I found

 

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[GDub62]

Nice find. What would one that small have been used for?

 

[pepperj]

Good eye on the tiny point.
The penny puts it into perspective.

 

[antmike915]

Excellent rescue 👍

 

[ArfieBoy]

Fantastic little point! Congratulations!

 

[Older The Better]

Nice find. What would one that small have been used for?

It’s a true arrowhead, for its size it’s not much more substantial than a fire hardened tip. I guess it would still cut better than a sharpened shaft though

 

[BennyV]

Is there any correlation between size and age?

 

[Older The Better]

Is there any correlation between size and age?

Somewhat, the bow wasn’t invented/adopted in North America until the woodland period before that you had larger atlatl points and spears, so true arrowheads are younger but people tended to add to the tool kit not replace things so even historic groups made plenty of large points too.

 

[scruggs]

Congratulations on a gem of a point!

 

[unclemac]

yeah, I have plenty of those over here on the left coast... some day when I am not so lazy I will post them for y'all.

 

[opalboy]

Wow! Good eye!

 

[ToddsPoint]

If that little sliver of flint hit you in the lung you would probably have a real bad day. It doesn’t take much.

 

[tamrock]

Nice. I've always thought those were made in mind to just tip the arrow shaft for less weight that would inhibit the flight trajectory and reduce the drag during penetration into the animal or enemies flesh sending the arrow deep into the vital organs.

 

[BennyV]

Nice. I've always thought those were made in mind to just tip the arrow shaft for less weight that would inhibit the flight trajectory and reduce the drag during penetration into the animal or enemies flesh sending the arrow deep into the vital organs.

Makes sense to me

 

[CreekSide]

Those are called Hamiltons in my area. I have a few. That’s a good find any day.