Here is a case I put together of points I made last year of what is typically found in Connecticut and New England. The majority of the material is a brown/red shale chert that I quarried in West Haven, CT. The other types are some Onondaga chert, esopus, rhyolite, quartz, Cheshire quartzite, and blue Vermont quartzite.
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Very nice! The brown/red pieces remind me of Chicopee Indurated Shale, a lithic that outcrops in the Connecticut River valley. Boudreau's typology notes "it is recognized by its deep red to reddish brown color with little obvious patina".Rhode Island
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That book is the greatest thing ever! I have worked so many different grades of this stuff and I have noticed that some of the higher grade pieces look identical to that of the Chicopee. I wonder if it is the same stuff, I am trying to track down the natural source of this stone. Most of where I get it is used as landscape stone.
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Cool AJ that's a sweet frame..nice work....I actually have two cool points made if that red shale I found down the river.....glad ur posting finallySW Connecticut
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Man ..AJ. You nailed the replication of the points we find here. Hadda check em out again ... I like em a lotSW Connecticut
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Nice work. The center one in the top row looks like an afton. Not found in your area but I find them in IA,IL,MO.SE IA
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Hey AJ...the point your talking about with old rocks. Is a. Jack's Reef. Corner notch....many have the pentagonal blade. ..if you look on "projectile.points.net"...and search for Jack's Reef corner notch......and then do search for Jack's Reef pentagonal ...you will see the difference.....the pentagonal is usually bout an inch..and has 5 edges...SW Connecticut
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