This material is known as Hingham felsite, Hingham being a town just a bit SE of Boston, Ma. A collector I know from the Plymouth, Ma area tells me he finds alot of this lithic, but at the sites we walk in RI, some 50 or so miles SW of Hingham, we've only ever found 2 pieces, a tip, and this piece, which I believe is a Dudley variety of a Mansion Inn blade, which dates Transitional Archaic. One winter day years ago while I went to work my wife drove 40 miles and walked for several hours in potato fields, only to come home empty handed. About a mile from home she walked to the edge of a stream and found this. Ain't that the way it goes sometimes. Anyway, maybe you can tell from the first photo why I took to calling this "the owl point." Not to be taken too seriously, it's not an effigy!
And here's a couple pics in direct sunlight.
And here's a couple pics in direct sunlight.
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