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Hello friends - been out a few times in the last couple weeks and got very lucky with some nice finds, as well as the usual brokes, flakes and tools. Photos attached - the 3 best points, from left to right: a Caraway, late prehistoric 1000-200 BP. Very interesting material, unlike anything I've seen before. Maybe some sort of quartz? Almost seems like an agate, but we don't have that material here in central NC as far as I know. Next one - Decatur, early Archaic, nice dark material and beveled on all sides. I missed it on the way in that day, stepped right over it! On the way out, happened to walk through the same spot and thought it was just a leaf. Still, I tapped it with my stick and it went "tink". I have to remind myself not to get focused on looking for green rhyolite and quartz here! Third point - Kirk I believe, the usual green rhyolite, early to middle Archaic. Very nice shape, just a small nick on the side.
A couple more worth posting - another green rhyolite point, tip broke and side resharpened, another Kirk I think. And finally a couple of quartz items: a heartbreaker of a point, Yadkin-eared I believe. Very thin and nicely worked, would have loved to find it whole, must have been beautiful! And a nice thin quartz graver, best tool of the trips. Thanks for looking!
A couple more worth posting - another green rhyolite point, tip broke and side resharpened, another Kirk I think. And finally a couple of quartz items: a heartbreaker of a point, Yadkin-eared I believe. Very thin and nicely worked, would have loved to find it whole, must have been beautiful! And a nice thin quartz graver, best tool of the trips. Thanks for looking!
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