New Find, Beautiful Material, Help with ID?

[HikerGalNC]

Hello all - had time for a hike/hunt this afternoon and found this beautiful slick black point. I love this material, since it seems rare here. Typically I find green rhyolite. This one was found on a sandy creek bank with just the very tip sticking up. Another reminder to flip everything! So shiny it's difficult to photograph. I'm guessing Brewerton or Taylor but looking for help with ID. Beveled both sides, both edges. Also on the material, is this chert? Where would it be from? Definitely not local to Chatham County NC. Thank you friends!

[Kaz]

Wow that’s really cool

[beatup1354]

good looking little bugger

[UpNorth]

Congrats that ones a beauty, can’t beat that material
can’t help with I.d........👍

[Hoss]

Hardaway Palmer in my honest opinion. Nice find Looks like Knox chert to me.

[paohrocks]

Definitely Knox chert, found enough of that stuff on cousins farm in east Tennessee.

[Hal Gorges]

What a beautiful point, ..Very Classy..Good for you...

[flintguy]

That's a great point. One of the better ones I've seen posted on here lately.

[antmike915]

nice, love the black material. Pretty rare for me to find as well.

[HBird]

That’s a beauty of a triangle

[Von]

Here’ some interesting reading about black chert in North Carolina. Chatham county N.C. is closer to Wrightsville Beach than Tennessee. So odds are if that point is authentic you have a really nice Hardaway Palmer made from a really rare material.

Nice!

Von

https://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20100509/News/605056043

[HikerGalNC]

Wow, great article, thanks so much! Wrightsville Beach is literally 2 hours drive from where I am, so actually quite close by.

[Von]

I have a few arrowheads from N.C. made from similar material and I buy what I come across especially when I’m down east. It’s weird because most folks think they are from somewhere else or fake. I pick up many of them up cheap. All I know is this was a different place at the end of the last ice age. Here’s a tidbit from Mindat that’s kind of interesting.

https://www.mindat.org/locentry-353911.html

[HikerGalNC]

Thanks for this one as well! Now that it seems possible that this material was pretty common around here, I think maybe there are more points to be found but I just don't spot them. I tend to be looking for greenish and quartz colors, and black doesn't pop out at me very well. I find it very hard to see (eyes are getting older here).

[Tam]

Nice von good info

[utilized flake]

That is just killer... You rarely ever see early palmer cross types serrated like that! Really cool point. I bet you're stoked to add that to your frame! I think I've seen that type in one of my books...ill get back to you with ID.

[HikerGalNC]

Thank you my Wilmington friend! I nearly fell over when I flipped it. Thought it was a shark's tooth at first, haha. I appreciate any and all advice.

[utilized flake]

Patrick Henry point. Named by Jack Hranicky. See how the base flairs out from the middle...woooo. Rick joke! But seriously that Knox is a great material for a great find!

[HikerGalNC]

Wow, sure does look similar! Thanks for the tip!

[utilized flake]

[redrocks]

Good find Mel. Congrats!