Nice Rhyolite Point

[Charl]

Yesterday I took a ride to the RI site that will always be closest to my heart. Over a 30 year period, my wife and I put together our largest, and most varied, assemblage, by far, of any site in our rounds. For various reasons, including all the pressure we put on the site, it started significantly playing out about 10 years ago. Most of the time, I leave with nothing in my pockets these days.

But I found a sherd of burnt pottery and a quartz scraper, and was satisfied with such meager finds, as I meandered my way through an unproductive section and back to my car. It was so completely unexpected, that when I saw the rhyolite side notch, and stooped down for a closer look, my first thought, which has never happened before, was “I must still be at home, asleep, dreaming?” After 10 years of meager results, it just seemed like it must be unreal, lol.

I went with a Coburn variety of a Wayland Notched. All varieties are created from the three types of Mansion Inn blades, and are Transitional Archaic-Early Woodland. Pretty rhyolite, I think Blue Hills Rhyolite....









Another Wayland Notched, I think Watertown variety, that my wife found at the site, many years ago, when it was far more productive....

 

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[Relicgrubber]

Thats a very nice looking symmetrical point. Congrats!

 

[uniface]

Super !

 

[Fat]

That is a nice piece and beautiful lithic. Do you know the brown lithic? Is it common or more rare-ish?

 

[GaRebel1861]

Beautiful

 

[dts52]

Beautiful recoveries.
dts

 

[southfork]

Great save

 

[Charl]

That is a nice piece and beautiful lithic. Do you know the brown lithic? Is it common or more rare-ish?

I think I’ve only seen it twice. The day my wife found that point, she also found a tool made from it. It could be common somewhere, but not where we’ve walked.

 

[kentucky Quinn]

Thanks for sharing, my brother found a point about 35 years ago in mtns of NC, looks like the same material, Rhyolite Gray with a hint of green to it. Awesome find

 

[newnan man]

Nice save, beautiful point. That material looks like it would be hard to work with.

 

[kentucky Quinn]

Thanks for sharing, my brother found a point about 35 years ago in mtns of NC, looks like the same material, Rhyolite Gray with a hint of green to it. Awesome find

My brothers find, similar material. Thanks

 

[PaleIO]

That site was telling you not to give up on it. Your persistence in returning paid off nicely!

 

[Twitch]

That’s an outstanding point. Nice work my friend.

 

[Jeff H]

Nice blue rhyolite point Charl. I found reddish Wayland notched similar to yours at Seapowet some years back.

 

[MAMucker]

That’s a beautiful point Charlie. The Coburn Variety does seem to fit well. It’s an interesting type.
Here’s a Brewerton Eared Triangle (I’ve posted this before) that has a very similar lithic, though not as blue:

 

[MAMucker]

Yesterday I took a ride to the RI site that will always be closest to my heart. Over a 30 year period,...

Another Wayland Notched, I think Watertown variety, that my wife found at the site, many years ago, when it was far more productive....

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Beautiful material. Some of the Wayland Notched examples remind me of the Susquehanna Broad type. The shoulders on this one are almost barbed.
But the material must be a rarity in this region. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen it. Almost a banded dark chocolate fine quartzite look to it.

 

[Charl]

Beautiful material. Some of the Wayland Notched examples remind me of the Susquehanna Broad type. The shoulders on this one are almost barbed.
But the material must be a rarity in this region. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen it. Almost a banded dark chocolate fine quartzite look to it.

The consensus seems to be Blue Hills rhyolite. I run across it now and then, but I’m weak on ID’ing rhyolite. I can nail Attleboro Red, Marblehead, Saugus, and I’m pretty sketchy after that....

The Wayland Notched are part of the Susquehanna Tradition, as are the Mansion Inns that are their preforms....

 

[MAMucker]

The consensus seems to be Blue Hills rhyolite. I run across it now and then, but I’m weak on ID’ing rhyolite. I can nail Attleboro Red, Marblehead, Saugus, and I’m pretty sketchy after that....

The Wayland Notched are part of the Susquehanna Tradition, as are the Mansion Inns that are their preforms....

Great to see your picking up in January. On the board in 2021!