Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: Timo on May 15, 2009, 11:22:52 pm
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Was picking up some rock on one of my fav creeks today.All the big rains here has done alot of washing,so I hit a couple high banks looking for "real points". This is the best point I have ever found,very blessed to have seen this one folks.
Scotts bluff,paleo period,4 7/16" by 1 3/8" and 5 /16" at the thickest place. the flaking pattern is outragious.
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congrats, great find
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I think that one fell out of my pocket when I slipped in the water. Please return to........... >:D >:D Nice find.
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Awesome find Timo....I have hunted them for 20+ years and have yet to find an intact Point....some people can just smell the damned things....I can walk right passed them all and never see a one!!!
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Finding such a blade is a blessing in my book! This one is special and makes you wonder about the fellow who made it and how it came to be there. All the ones I have ever made are not worth one that I have found. Thanks for the great pictures! Joe
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Holy cow dude!! That's some nice flaking on that point - nice find!!
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Tim that's just awesome! A blade like that is often a once in a lifetime find. I bet that one's going behind some glass for sure.
Micheal, I used to hunt some fields that I could pick up as many as 60 complete points in a few hours. Those days are gone though. Nobody plows much around here any more. The way it is now I'd be hard pressed to pick up 2 points in a day of walking. :(
Again, great find! I bet as soon as you found it you quit looking for anything else.
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Wow. Time-travelling blade and a nice one.
PD
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WOW!
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ditto on the wows
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Timo, that's a stunning point-great find, and thanks for letting us see it.
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amazing how your stomach comes right up into ur throat when you make a good find huh?
VERY NICE!! congrads.
N2
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so THAT's where I lost my stone knife last week!! I'd know my work anywhere...so I think you need to send it back to me immediately. my address is..... ;D
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Timo, yes you are blessed! Sawfiler is right, no-till planting has hurt finding. Moleboard plows are dinosaurs!
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Man ! That's a beauty.Would have loved to see a picture of that prize in-situ. That is truly a once in a lifetime find. Worth lots on the collector market.I think I would haft it into a nice handle and make a nice scabbard For it and show that sucker off at the primitive gathering,maybe gut a deer. Yeah,that blade has history. Congrat's ' Frank
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Wow that's a killer find Timo!! There's not much beats the feeling of finding those and especially one that nice.
Alan
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That sure is a nice find. I was wondering what did the indians use it for, maybe a knife or spear. What do you folkes think it was used for?
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Sweet! that flaking is amazing. tom22, they were used primarily for Atlatl points.
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Just looking at it again Tim - that is one beautiful point. The collateral flaking is perfect but doesn't look like he spent a lot of time on the little delta's. Hmm, interesting.
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I took it to The osage knappin today and several looked at it. Most agreed that it was no completely finished. Basal grinding is absent,and there is no finish flaking on the edges. I concurred with most thinking that is may be a cache blade.There may be more there somwhere?
It is better in real life than those pics show it. Gonna have it athenticated soon. As for now?... It is in a very safe place. ;D
Tom22 I'm not real sure,but those who study this more than myself tell me that they where primarily used for knives.
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I got inspired by that blade today and made one - it just don't look exactly right so I'll try again before posting a pic ::).
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:o That is an awesome find.
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sweet point Tim...I'm jealous, ha. I wondered why the edge didn't look finished.
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Excellent find!
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WOW!...super nice Timo..super!
R.