Nice afternoon walk. Heartbreaker Alert.

[MAMucker]

By the light of the setting sun:









Almost dark when I picked this one up. Didn’t get on site photo.

 

[MAMucker]

That marbled rhoylite is unique to me for sure. Hunting both RI and MA, never seen any alike. I love the knapping design in the intact edge. Large specimen.

Awesome find. Maybe after this rain were having some will be ready for Saturday.

On first glance, before reading on, I definitely got the impression a very early peice.

That’s a great point. Some of the artifacts made of that material have a bit of the rind (cortex) from the pebble they were worked from.
I find a lot of thin (high quality) flakes in various shades with some cortex remaining. A majority of the material that I see is in shades of black, most having a degree of Patina, a few having none. Marblehead Rhyolite is one of my favorite lithics. As it was for the NA inhabitants of this region. Especially on the coast.
My brother found a stunning large equal lateral Levanna made of a cranberry colored Marblehead Rhyolite on one of the Islands off the Coast of MA. Gem quality.

I hope you hit pay dirt on Saturday!

Thanks for the reply.

 

[Charl]

The burgundy Marblehead rhyolite point might be a resharpened Fox Creek Lanceolate. Compare to Boudreau’s resharpened examples. At one time called Steubenville Stemmed, and Steubenville Lanceolate, before the name change(see Ritchie’s New York typology), these points were originally assumed to be Paleo in age, until found in association with pottery.

https://collections.nysm.nysed.gov/projectilepoints/types/steubenville_lanceolate.html

 

[MAMucker]

Thanks Charl,
I really appreciate you input.

That’s an interesting link. Feels like a scant trail of breadcrumbs with the Stubenville type.
My familiarity with the Fox Creek (Stemless) Lanceolate is very limited.
My example measures 53mm (2-1/8”)Long x 35mm (1-3/8”)Wide. Which puts it outside of the far range for width in Ritchie’s Metrics and in Boudreau’s.