Here’s an interesting MA Coastal find

[MAMucker]

Made from a large flake and worked mostly on one side, this Projectile Point May best fit as an A-typical Polar Island or variant.

The base is quite tapered (though the shoulders are odd), and one side having the bulb of percussion.

More interesting is the material, which I believe is a dead-lock on an example of Onondaga Chert of the western variety (NY) in the Lithics section of A New England Typology of Native American Projectile Points (Jeff Boudreau).











Notice the point lying on top of the large artifact pictured above.

 

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[Charl]

If not Poplar Island, perhaps Rossville, but a fine point by any name. Great score!

 

[MAMucker]

Thanks Charlie.
Yes, I looked at a possible variety of Rossville and Stark too. It is for sure an oddball.

I thought the most interesting feature of this point is it’s lithic material, and the notion that it may have walked or canoed it’s way from Eastern NY to the MA Coast.

 

[H.P.]

What a nice looking point, congrats.

 

[ArfieBoy]

Nice point! Congratulations!