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This quartz point showed up yesterday. Since I seldom find this type, at first I thought the maker had left a triangle unfinished. But, I soon realized that no, this looked very much like a Morrow Mountain Type 1. Further, going by the info in projectilepoints dot net, it is a rarely seen variety that displays a barbed, or “hanging” shoulder. At least on one corner, and while dinged at the other corner, it looks like it was likely barbed there as well. The link below show one example with a very similar “hanging” shoulder to yesterday’s find.
The distribution map at the above link, shows Morrow Mountain extending into southern New England, but this would be the case for Type 2, not type 1. At least according to Noel Justice’s cluster model of typology, since he claims Type 1 is restricted to the Southeast. As Boudreau notes in his New England typology, our Stark point is the morphological correlate of Morrow Mountain Type 2. But, he leaves unresolved whether our Stark point developed here independently, or is in fact derived from Morrow Mountain Type 2.
In any event, Boudreau includes a few examples, but not full devoted pages, to several rare Southeastern types that occur but rarely in New England, such as Kirk and Palmer, to name but two. But nowhere does he mention any Morrow Mountain Type 1’s from southern New England. But I think I do come across what can only be Morrow Mountain Type 1’s now and then. On an extremely uncommon basis.
So I was very pleased to find an apparent Morrow Mountain Type 1 with barbed or “hanging” shoulders. Unless someone can suggest a better match.
Here is what sure looks like a Morrow Mountain Type 1, rhyolite, and from another coastal RI site. Both this site, and the one that yielded yesterday’s quartz point have yielded other early Southeastern types. Both sites, for example, gave up rare Hardaway Side-Notched.....
The distribution map at the above link, shows Morrow Mountain extending into southern New England, but this would be the case for Type 2, not type 1. At least according to Noel Justice’s cluster model of typology, since he claims Type 1 is restricted to the Southeast. As Boudreau notes in his New England typology, our Stark point is the morphological correlate of Morrow Mountain Type 2. But, he leaves unresolved whether our Stark point developed here independently, or is in fact derived from Morrow Mountain Type 2.
In any event, Boudreau includes a few examples, but not full devoted pages, to several rare Southeastern types that occur but rarely in New England, such as Kirk and Palmer, to name but two. But nowhere does he mention any Morrow Mountain Type 1’s from southern New England. But I think I do come across what can only be Morrow Mountain Type 1’s now and then. On an extremely uncommon basis.
So I was very pleased to find an apparent Morrow Mountain Type 1 with barbed or “hanging” shoulders. Unless someone can suggest a better match.
Here is what sure looks like a Morrow Mountain Type 1, rhyolite, and from another coastal RI site. Both this site, and the one that yielded yesterday’s quartz point have yielded other early Southeastern types. Both sites, for example, gave up rare Hardaway Side-Notched.....
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