Few recent goodies

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From what I have found and seen others pick up I would say 99% of SV's in my area are made of local material. I have picked up severial hundred, counting brokes the past forty years and it seems the Indians of that period didn't travel or trade much. Or the material worked for what they needed it for. Most in my area are made of quartz. Then quartzite along with some grainy slate and some shale type material I believe. The material on some is so poor it's hard to recongize it as being an artifact.
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Looks like you have a bunch of rayholite there
 

Good info guys. Wow, several hundred Savannah Rivers, wow. I think I would have to build an addition just to display them all. As I look back at only the pieces from our garden, I have a few Savannahs and a few tools made from Jasper and other black and gray colored chert. Maybe they saved the good stuff for the tools and used the Quartzite for all those large Savannah blades. Thats not to say we don't find tools made from Quartzite, because I find plenty of those as well, but maybe they preferred chert tools. Here's an example of a few garden pieces, a broken Savannah and a jasper knife, or flake tool of some kind.
 

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Cool! That first point is a really nice nice find. :icon_thumleft: Is the one in the fourth photo a triangle point or the mid section of one? Just curious.
 

Thanks guys. The piece in the fourth pic is a mid section, its a rather well made thin blade. I think the material is black chert. I put a little mineral oil on it to mask the hazy white patina and got a few better pics, shame its only a mid section.
 

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