Ohio_Doug said:
Looks like an unfinished point to me, the base appears unfinished on the right side.
Yea.... it's either an unfinished or broken point. After reading the comments, I held it again last night. As with many of my questionable points, if a person could actually hold it, I think they would know right away that its a worked piece. You know that feeling when you pick up a point? It has that 100%. a nice, even taper toward the base, etc. In this case, I lean a tad more to the right side of the base being broken, only because the rest of it feels and looks very professionally worked and even.
There is such a wide variety of points and such at the location, that its almost hard to believe. That is, until you fully understand the history of the spot. Most of the points were used for fishing here. I also believe that a case or more of trade pipes fell out of a boat just offshore.I am finding pieces of trade pipes just about daily and they are all in an area of about 50 feet, along the river. The rest of the area along this section of river is literally covered with flakes of quartz, granite and other material............ all well back from the river's edge in large natural clearings. Within these clearings are numerous old fire pit sites as well.
What that leaves me with are points that ended up in the water while fishing, tons of flakes at the campsite propper, many preforms and semi worked pieces up on the high ground, around the firepits, and a rare perfect point deeper in the surrounding woods, probably used to hunt game....as they are the larger points.
How cool is that?
