Archaic Beauty!!

[Arrow1492]

From Illinois. What do you think?
One of my favorites. Still sharp as hell!

 

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[MAMucker]

Amazing workmanship!

Can we see the other side?

 

[ohp733]

Very cool!

 

[reuellis]

Beauty

 

[MAMucker]

Any idea of type?

 

[Tdog]

Looks like overshot flaking.

 

[Arrow1492]

Kirk corner notch

 

[MAMucker]

It’s a beauty!


And the other side?

 

[tomclark]

Absolute FILTH!!

 

[Arrow1492]

Here is the other side.

Tom Clark- you are funny

 

[dognose]

Very nice point. Interesting impact fracture.

Material looks like heat treated burlington to me. I found many points made of heat treated burlington in the 70s and 80s in Jefferson County Missouri.

 

[Arrow1492]

Impact fracture? I was on the fence about that. How can you tell?

 

[dognose]

In my area of Indiana, and when I lived in Missouri, the klunk type point is a point made on a large flake. The large flake area is often smooth in most of the area with chipping around the edge to shape and give it a sharp point.

I have found a few of this type of point.

the term impact fracture may or may not have been actually caused by an impact. It could have been, but could also have been caused by using the blade as a tool which could have been twisted and torqued in a way to snap off a large flake. Its the term used for this type of flaking on a projectile point.

the image shows flaking on the side with the large flake which would most likely had been completed prior to the fracture. A klunk point most often has the entire side of the point a large flake.



Of course this is from an image, I could be wrong, but thats my view. Happy 4th.

 

[gilmerman]

I have several points and blade out of burlington hat i found in Missouri while stationed there at Whiteman AFB and also at Clinton, Ia, my wife's home town. Across the Mississippi close to Fulton, Illinois has same material. Enjoy hunting on the river Banks and fields in Iowa.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Now thats a great looking point.

 

[redbeardrelics]

Awesome point, it could literally be a twin or mirror image of a point posted on here by user "jbenson" on January 10th 2019, check it out !

 

[A2coins]

That is just freakin cool