Has anyone ever seen points like these?

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These were found in Pennsylvania.We have never seen points shaped liked these.We are not even sure they are points but they were definately worked.Our fellow hunters have not eithor.So I am assuming they are an unusual find for our area.Just like the piece of banded slate found earlier this month......you just never know what is going to turn up in the dirt.I have also included a pic of some of our most worthy finds from this spring.Does anyone have any info as to what these are?I haven't had any luck with my research on the internet.
 

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Nice looking bunch of artifacts. Great colors, you guys have been racking up :thumbsup:
In the 1st pic the black place piece looks like a little graver or a worn down drill. The other maybe a wanna-b triangular. Nice finds.

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looks like some western Pa. lithics, other than the woodland/ mississippian triangles and the Lamoka or spike point in the middle , I'm not sure , nice finds though, the black artifact to the right on the first pic looks like a possible exhausted drill, or maybe a hafted multitool spokeshave/ notching tool/ chisel tip? imo.
 

i agree with thirty 7 & tn mts,the black piece was probably a drill,it is notched and probably started its life as a knife and was sharpened down to the point where it couldnt be used as a blade and then was used as a drill.the other may be a litlle bladelette is my guess.really nice frame.good job to build a nice frame over the spring.thx for sharing th pics. :thumbsup:
 

My guess would be terminal Archaic through late Woodland.

The corner-notched piece in the top left section with the semi-circular blade looks like a broadpoint era Strike-a-Light. If so, the distal end will be battered from striking it with a piece of pyrite for sparks to start fires with. A currently (to my knowledge, which stopped 20 years ago) un-named western extention of the broadpoint culture -- Susquehanna, Perkiomen & others (all defined by the lithics they used) and often times found in (at least previously to draining) swampy areas or near rivers.
 

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