Here are some photos I took Dec. 2018 from our camping trip to Edisto Island SC. I met and talked to a friend from Boone, NC. These three photos are
of a Clovis point she had just found that had washed out on the beach. Can't tell you what a thrill it was to hold a recently found 10 to 12 thousand year
old fluted point in my hand and examine it. I believe it was made from coastal plain chert from the Savannah River area. It is translucent around the edges
and is rough looking, raw and un-heat treated rock. Color is patina and staining from the black coastal mud. It has been added to the registry here in SC.

JoeM wrote on Dec 28^th, 2023 at 2:24pm:


Joe, I believe it was the first point she had ever found. She looks for fossils, shells and sea glass. She showed it around to a few
campers there on the beach and someone told her what it was while offering her a good bit of cash for it. Glad she kept it. A
local who lives next to the Topper Site and I both checked it out at the same time. When we held it up to the sunlight the edges
were definitely translucent. I commented to him (knappers perspective) that the rock was very tough looking where the flutes
detached, one even stopping and veering off to the right after hitting a tougher section. Allendale and Jasper counties are
very close by and this looks to be from that area as the immediate coast at Edisto is rock poor. I've never found one myself
but I have a  friend who just got an unfluted one that he found ID'd by Dr. Goodyear at the Camden SC artifact show
this past spring.

Wow, some artifact hunters go their entire life without finding a whole clovis like that and she did on her first artifact find!! Amazing.