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What do you think of this one?
Apr 1st, 2016 at 4:34pm
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I was actually out today looking for morels, but since I didn't find any, I ended up looking at rocks in a creek instead.

So I found this today in a creek in Orange Co. where I had previously found a Halifax point, and appears to be the same bluish-greenish-grayish rock as my previously-found point.   I don't know much about artifacts, but I'd say this is some sort of scraper tool.

I have pictures of both sides, and it's about 2.5 inches long.



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Re: What do you think of this one?
Reply #1 - Apr 1st, 2016 at 10:03pm
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Sure wish we had gotten about an inch more rain, Lizzie. I think the shrooms could have used it.
Maybe tomorrow.😊
But you did find an artifact. Good pictures, too.
I don't see any well defined or prepared edges to make me think it was ever used as a tool, tho. Ofcourse you found it in a creek and it's been a little water worn, but I'd have to call it a flake.
Now, so what's this I hear about you finding some sort of a Clovis around there sometime back?
How'd I miss that! That I would like to see.

And now that I look at your flake again I guess that concave area out to the sharp broken point
could've been used as a scrapergraver type tool. Might be how that little point got snapped off.

Clovis? 😊
  
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Reply #2 - Apr 2nd, 2016 at 8:48am
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Yeah, okay, so that's embarrassing.  I have been doing a lot of reading about early primitive humans and I guess I had "Clovis" stuck in  my head.  But I actually meant HALIFAX (I think  Roll Eyes ) point that I found in the same place.  Here's a picture of the other one from a couple of years ago:



Thanks, Joe, for keeping me honest!  Wink
  
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Reply #3 - Apr 2nd, 2016 at 5:41pm
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Somebody's got to do it. Wink
Really tho, Clovis points are one in a million, so I had to get some clarification there.
Thanks for the picture but I'm not sure what to call it either.
Pretty point but my what big feet it has. I think Halifax is close
but I'm wondering if it isn't or wasn't a much larger Savannah River at one point
and it has been reworked so the shoulders are completely gone now and it just goes
straight up from the old base? Not sure on that one.
After todays rain I'm going to be looking shrooms in the morning!😊
  
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Reply #4 - Apr 25th, 2016 at 7:17pm
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I found another one today, same place.  Woohoo!  Super excited. Smiley  I was out looking for morels (again), without finding any (again).  Then ended up in the creek.  So I went home happy anyway.

Here it is:


  
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Re: What do you think of this one?
Reply #5 - Apr 27th, 2016 at 10:45pm
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Nice spot you've found there, lizzie.
I wonder if those are both Stanley's? Be perty cool if you've found a little Stanley period camp!
  
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Reply #6 - Apr 30th, 2016 at 1:23pm
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I knew I could count on ya, Joe.
I had to look up the Stanly Period to read a little about it. 

I have only ever found maybe 6 points in my life, and three of them are in this post (and that's only if you count the first big broad one as a point and not just a flake).  Smiley
  
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