Airborne80
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- Northern Virginia
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- Whites XLT Classic
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- All Treasure Hunting
This weekend was a fun one for Charlie and I. he got in lots of swimming and I was able to cover our site. While we did not find anything spectacular, we did come across a few quartzite bird points and some worked quarts pieces. Now…. I realize that many here think that I am way off base with the bird points and believe that they are natural rock formations. But, while the cell phone camera does not show it, there is a very consistent design to these (not so pretty and rather crude) points. They are all tapered evenly at the base and show notching in the shoulder area. This site was used for many thousands of years as a summer fishing campsite and the points that I recover here cover many epics. You have seen the indisputable beauties that are identifiable in Overstreet and other resources. But, in addition to those, I do find a tone of polished Gar scale points and items like these that are not identified in Overstreet. My belief is that these were made in large numbers and the owners were not at all concerned with how they looked. Seeing as how they were used to spear fish and would be lost in the river sooner than later, I believe that they were considered highly disposable items. I also included two pieces of quarts that show clear signs of having been worked but not completed. The bigger one has a sharp edge and may be a broken scraper or tool. Anyway…. Take a look and all comments (even the geofact comments) are highly welcomes. I hope that everyone had as much fun this weekend as Charlie and I did. 
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