Handful of oddball finds

[flintguy]

Not a bad haul for a half hour walk. First one is a knife/preform that has an inclusion that I assumed weathered away after it was worked, leaving an unusual look. Second is what I though was a black stemmed point but turned out to be a lancet? It appears to be worked up one side and has a beveled tip, either creek chatter or flaked into a saw on the other side. The last one I think is a broken Hopewell conical blade core. Would like to find a whole one some day. I seem to find a lot of these broke or slab ones for some reason. Last pic is everything with a few big flake/edge knifes I also found.

[Hal Gorges]

Nice finds, looks like you have a micro tool industry at that site, bott left shows vertical tool flake removals, next two would be similar to the flakes that were removed,, and they exhibit the classic dorsal ridge, lighter one is the preform, darker one is the finished tool...Florida examples are smaller...

[redrocks]

Those are pretty cool pieces....nice colors.. real good for a half hour walk!

[Hal Gorges]

This is one type from the tool kit, there are others shaped like top pic. and flat ones, ( yours has the median ridge ). drill types, etc. it’s an interesting technology.... these three have the tip bevel

[flintguy]

Nice stuff Hal. Thanks for the info. I have found a really cool micro blade close by. Occasionally find flake knives but I find those blade cores a lot on this site. Probably have a dozen of them. I always take them home. They usually have three to five long flake scars on them. It's a woodland site with known Hopewell finds so I'm assuming that they are broken conical cores. I'm going to click my heals together if I ever find a perfectly round one. It's on my bucket list.

[Hal Gorges]

A nice core from the blade technology is hard to find, I guess they used em till they weren’t.lol.

[SurfaceHunter]

Go back but for a couple of hours. Nice blades

[SurfaceHunter]

Please do I'm out of commission for at least a week. Maybe longer so I will be on more than normal looking and drooling

[flintguy]

It's not your leg again is it? Those old ladies at work getting in your way?

[SurfaceHunter]

Yep but for a different reason. The backroom is so tiny now days.

[SurfaceHunter]

Your first one looks like it might of had an inclusion in it that washed away. I bet at one time it was a nice scraper.

[flintguy]

That was my thinking as well. Almost looks like they had thoughts of a point considering the one end, but never finished it up.

[Turn Rocks]

Nice finds. I love bladelets.

[willjo]

Dark Brown one nice tool

[flintguy]

Thanks Willjo. This was an old post that got pumped back up. Thanks for taking a look.

[Narrow Way Knapper]

Textbook flakes from blade cores. Very cool!

[Narrow Way Knapper]

Are you close to a quarry site?

[flintguy]

No. Just what used to be a farm that was turned into a neighbor back in the 1920s through 50s. There used to be at least four mounds that were bulldozed into the creek to make room. From what I can figure they were hastily excavated with not much found before hand. But I'm guessing it was an important spot and I'm sure some nice lithics were brought in. I find raw chunks of chalcedony like flint ridge and others lying around unworked. Not sure what was going on there.

[Narrow Way Knapper]

Very interesting. Raises a lot more questions about that culture.