Archaic Points

[Huzzah!]

Found at a small site I've been pecking at recently. First one is a quartz LeCroy--very thin and barely over an inch long. The second is a Koens Crispin...and I think we have another name for it in Va.

 

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[Tdog]

I love the quartz biffy. The knife I'd call a Morrow Mountain if found around here but they are much older. Congrats and thanks.

Thought I'd put up a link to the Koens Crispin Projectile Point

 

[Quartzite Keith]

The second one is "Cattle Run", but I'm, nit-picking because it's the same thing as Koens Crispin. The type site is in Chesterfield County, right next to where 288 and 95 meet. All up and down the east coast there are these Late Archaic "broadspear" forms with a Morrow Mountain like base, but the points are bigger and "flatter" having larger width to thickness ratios than Morrow Mountain. In Virginia they coincide with and are considered a "variant" of Savannah River. The ones in central Virginia are pretty much always quartzite and represent the best of the best knapping in that material.

McAvoy and McAvoy in their work along the Nottoway River use yet another regional name, "Island Swamp" and date it as "Late Archaic transitional".

https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/points/cattle-run/

 

[Huzzah!]

ISLAND SWAMP! That was what I was looking for. Thanks Keith. Couldn't remember what NRS called it.

 

[arrow86]

Nice finds ... too bad about that Lecroy

 

[gilmerman]

Love that veined quartz Lecroy. Would be proud to have found and own it. Enjoyed this post.

 

[old digger]

Nice Finds! That banded quartz is a dandy.

 

[A2coins]

Awesome finds great for a nice display case