One that has me scratching my head

[quito]

This one has me wondering. I picked it up at auction.
I have hundreds of points, have handled and seen thousands of them up here. The material obviously traveled a fair distance, it's not common, but it's not unheard of here either. The form of this piece has me thinking a form of Frederick. The concave base is nicely ground, as well. But the tiny notches don't belong on the type. I'm wondering if it were notches later, or a triangle form I have not see around here before. Any of you that know the material may have some insight.

 

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[old digger]

Nice piece! Your item kind of looks like a mixture of red-green-yellow jasper that may have been heat treated. I found a small Allen point that had the red-yellow jasper over here in the Big Horn Basin area, (Northern Wyoming). If I may suggest, It looks like it may have been utilized as an awl with the base notches for added strength.

P.S. I have found the tri-colored jasper in my area.

 

[rock]

Nice piece! Your item kind of looks like a mixture of red-green-yellow jasper that may have been heat treated. I found a small Allen point that had the red-yellow jasper over here in the Big Horn Basin area, (Northern Wyoming). If I may suggest, It looks like it may have been utilized as an awl with the base notches for added strength.

P.S. I have found the tri-colored jasper in my area.

Good call digger maybe even a drill type

 

[joshuaream]

Is there any beveling? If you found it down river in Missouri, Iowa or Illinois, I think most people would call it a resharpened Graham Cave or Big Sandy (or something else from the early Archaic sidenotch cluster.) That heavy basal thinning is even spot on for the type. In the Great Basin/Rocky Mtn states you see Northern Sidenotch points resharpened down like that.

It could just be a big Plains Sidenotch that was resharpened a lot.

 

[chase2]

Quito, I am not sure I have one similar I call it a cottonwood triangle.

 

[quito]

Quito, I am not sure I have one similar I call it a cottonwood triangleView attachment 1280852.

Interesting, they look like they could be sisters. What would you call that material your is made of?...........maybe someone notched this triangle.

 

[chase2]

Quito, This is made from Trout Creek. They called it jasper many years ago, but it is a chert. Quarry is central Colorado. I am not sure of the lithic of yours?

 

[Jon Stewart]

It looks cooked with some thin cortex still on some of the point. Material looks like a jasper that they found out your way.