Triangle or missing base?

[Older The Better]

Finally found a complete point, or so I thought. Can’t decide if the weird spot at the base is from a break at the notches or just a spot not addressed, maybe to avoid losing that triangle shape. It would be off center if it was a break. What do you think?

Oh and I’ll throw in the other base I found, solid day for me especially this year mostly due to the pottery in the other post that is so scarce around here

 

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[dognose]

this looks like the base snapped off to me.

 

[antmike915]

this looks like the base snapped off to me.
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I agree

 

[newnan man]

Base snapped off for sure.

 

[CreekSide]

Shame on the stem missing. Still a good find

 

[Older The Better]

Looks like we have a consensus, dang that keeps my last full point back in early April, guess I’ll just have to keep at it haha.

 

[Rockdog]

Yep. Broken. Too bad.

 

[tamrock]

I never feel bad finding broken artifacts. It just means you're in a good area. When I lived along the upper Arkansas river in Colorado I'd search the same areas over and over and being delighted I found anything in any condition. Then in the same areas I searched dozens of times before a complete artifact would just appear waiting to be picked up. It was most likely there all the time I looked covered in a thin layer of dried pine needles and then a strong wind or dust devil came along and scattered all those pine needles away leaving the beautiful artifact behind.

 

[newnan man]

A a kid & young man we searched the farmers fields along the Scioto River in Ohio. At the time plowing was the norm, so most of what was found was damaged. Still, I have dozens of smaller points that are undamaged, even a handful of big ones. The same fields year after year produced points after being plowed. With no-till farming now, those days are long gone.

 

[Older The Better]

don’t get me wrong I even keep the flakes and like my brokes, I was hoping that big base was bifurcated so I could narrow down the I’d but i don’t think it’s strong enough of a dimple… I just know this forum has lulls and I like to contribute when I can but a long string of brokes and fragments feels like people would be rolling their eyes.

No plowing here but i definitely know the what you mean about going back, I walk my yard all the time and occasionally a point or a broke will pop up in a place I’ve been over 100 times, when I mow I make many passes over certain areas to get the grass short and the dust blowing. Good stuff really can be just millimeters out of view.

Here’s one spot I walk, first discovered flakes and a few small points in the rootball of a tree fall, hence the name, it’s been super productive but those full points are hard to come by… I started drawing them out and marking them on a map to keep track

 

[CreekSide]

A a kid & young man we searched the farmers fields along the Scioto River in Ohio. At the time plowing was the norm, so most of what was found was damaged. Still, I have dozens of smaller points that are undamaged, even a handful of big ones. The same fields year after year produced points after being plowed. With no-till farming now, those days are long gone.

Field walking just isn’t the same anymore