Sea floor dart

[Older The Better]

Went out for a hunt, got skunked at my best spot, on the way back out I decided to take a detour to a field I hadn’t looked over in several months, came up with this point before the rain got me. This is the biggest point I’ve found in quite a while and never had one with so many fossils. I’m impressed that someone could get a point out such a material.

 

[plehbah2]

That is the neatest looking point I have seen in awhile. Those fossils are easily visible and identifiable. I have seen lots of stuff with oolites, but I don't think I have ever seen one with a little bivalve/clam/whatever that is. Do you know the name of the geologic formation that chert comes from?

It also looks to me like your find there, a hafted biface, certainly may have started life as a dart point, but that it's final application was as a knife. It has definitely been heavily resharpened along one edge.

 

[dognose]

very cool fossils in the point.
great find!

 

[Older The Better]

I don’t know the stone off the top of my head but I’ll definitely be looking, I see the bivalve, there’s a cross section of a crinoid, some bryozoans, and various other scraps.
I agree on the knife, when I did the title I was just thinking dart because it’s bigger than an arrowhead. The way it’s been sharpened says knife to me.
I’m between a few types, Langtry, Dickson, or hidden valley. I kinda like it for hidden valley.

 

[antmike915]

That's a good one, I'm also a fan of points with fossils 👍

 

[newnan man]

Great find. I love points with fossils.

 

[Buckleberry]

Sweet, love the fossils!!!

 

[MAMucker]

Very cool find. If that point could talk…

 

[Jeff H]

That is so cool OTB !

 

[CreekSide]

Interesting point and material. No fossils here we just have the quartz inclusions in the black chert

 

[Older The Better]

Thanks all, I’m definitely going to be on the lookout for what kind of material that is, looks similar to hertha but I’ve never seen hertha with that level of obvious fossils