Nice point. It can sometimes be confusing to collectors who live in the home region for Hardaway-Daltons, North Carolina. I sometimes wonder if the late Jeff Boudreau regretted choosing this temporary name for these New England points. I never had the chance to ask him, regrettably, and we miss his guidance greatly. I say regret, because, by and large, New England Hardaway-Daltons simply do not resemble the form of this type from North Carolina. For this reason, in fact, Jeff pointed out that these points have never been found in a dated context in New England, and that, if and when that happens, they will be described and assigned their own unique name.
I have been lucky enough to find several over the years, as has my wife. You can also find some of the examples Jeff included in his New England typology on display at the Robbins Museum of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society.
Here is one of ours, found in Ma., and just to show the variability in form, some showing notches and ears. Boudreau mentioned that these are very seldom found broken, having been used as knives, and when frequently worked down to small size, examples such as the OP’s can become extraordinarily difficult to distinguish from some later triangles from this region....
