First dug point

[captain redbeard]

And shes a beauty! Decided to start digging an area real close to the field I walk (same owner) found bunch of flakes threw couple shovel fulls in my little sifter and couldnt believe me eyes.

 

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[catherine1]

Nice artifact save......I would scratch around there more often.

 

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[OntarioArch]

Steve - I like Monsterrack's identification as a Sylvan Side-notched. Here is Ritchie's description.

Sylvan Side-Notched Points

Description prepared by Robert E. Funk

General description: Small to medium sized, thick, broad, sloppily manufactured side-notched points.

Size: Length ranges from 1 1/16 to 2 3/16 inches, the mode being 1 3/8- 1 1/2 inches. Breadth ranges from 5/8-11/16 inches, generally falling within 3/4-7/8 inch. The usual thickness is 1/4-3/8 inch.

Proportions: Length averages 1 3/4 to 2 times greater than breadth.

Shape: Blade usually ovoid in outline, rarely trianguloid. Cross section is biconvex. Side-notching usually broad and shallow, frequently asymmetrical. Base straight or convex, not ground. These points are rudely chipped by percussion.

Age and cultural affiliations: There appears to be some morphological overlap with Brewerton Side-Notched points. Sylvan Side-Notched points are rare to absent in Laurentian components in eastern New York, but are characteristic of the late Archaic Sylvan Lake complex, in which they occur as a minority type. The type assemblage for the complex was present in Stratum 2 at the Sylvan Lake Rockshelter, Dutchess County (Funk, 1965; n.d.). Age ranges between approximately 2200 and 1500 B.C., based on radiocarbon dates for the Sylvan Lake shelter and for similar manifestations in New England (Ritchie, 1965a; 1969).

Distribution: Principally eastern New York. Examples of the type have been seen by the writer in collections from Connecticut, and it appears to be a rare form in the Bare Island complex of Pennsylvania (Kinsey, 1959).

 

[Trezurehunter]

What a great looking point.

 

[gentleone444]

That is gorgeous!

 

[georgia flatlander]

That is a beautiful find, and congratulations!

 

[jamey]

nice one

 

[OntarioArch]

Your point is the best example of a Sylvan Side Notched I can find online.....you oughta send it to Projectile Point Identification Guide. your pic is way better than theirs. classic I would say!

 

[captain redbeard]

Your point is the best example of a Sylvan Side Notched I can find online.....you oughta send it to Projectile Point Identification Guide. your pic is way better than theirs. classic I would say!

Thank you, it is definitely one of my favorites so far, certainly one of the heftiest points I have found. Certainly was shocked considering it was my first attempt at digging and sifting.