Robbins Museum Rhode Island Frame

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This is a reconstituted thread. So, if the subject matter and photos look familiar, that's why. The original thread was created in Feb. of 2018, following a visit friends and I made to the Robbins Museum in Middleborough, Ma. The Robbins is the facility where the Massachusetts Archaeological Society stores and displays its collections.

https://massarchaeology.org/robbins-museum/about/

A few days ago, internet gremlins gobbled up the old thread. I guess the gremlins liked this frame, lol.

So, briefly. This is my favorite frame at the Robbins Museum. It's about 2 1/2'-3' long on its long axis, and the biggest points in the center I estimate are in the 5" long size range. It's a very big frame. There are many artifacts on display at the Robbins. It's an old fashioned museum in that respect, so collectors will love it. In time, I will post other photos of the displays.

The first photo shows the entire frame, the next three photos start at the right hand border, and end on the left hand border of the frame.

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Close up of large points made from nice lithics....



A nice Jack's Reef Corner Notch, made of hornfels, one of the much preferred lithics for the JR people in New England:

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OK, the narrow purple rhyolite triangle to the right of the larger holed weight is a New England version of a Hardaway-Dalton point. This fine example was included in Boudreau's expanded typology:



The beautiful quartz point that somewhat resembles an Orient Fishtail is actually a fairly newly described point from New England. It is a Late Archaic Alsop Meadow point, described in 1981 from the Alsop Meadow Site in the Farmington River Valley of Ct. Also notable is the goldish colored point, with black inclusions, to its left. I have no idea what that nice lithic is; this is the only point I have seen made from it.

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[Ron Kelley]

Hey Charlie, Thanks for resurrecting that thread. What an awesome display of artifacts.

[chase]

Thanks Charlie

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Here's a closer image of the long narrow triangle that Jeff Boudreau photographed for inclusion on his page describing New England "Hardaway-Daltons" in his typology guides. This point type will receive its own name, as it should, if and when it is ever found in a datable context in New England. So far, all such examples of this type have been surface finds only in New England.

[SDhunter]

There sure are some spectacular artifacts in that frame