Midwinter heartbreaker

[IAMZIM]

This is actually from 2019, I have been working like a dog all winter and didn't have time to post it until now. Quartz point! So bummed one of the ears is missing! I think it is an oxbow point! Found a piece of quartz only about 15 feet from where I found the point, wonder if they were related? Guess we will never know! I was pretty stoked when I found this, I can't wait to look here this spring!!

 

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[Tdog]

Nice finds. That could be the very core the material was struck from to create the point!

 

[IAMZIM]

Nice finds. That could be the very core the material was struck from to create the point!

That's kinda what I was thinkin'!

 

[Arkansaw]

Very freaking nice!

 

[quito]

That’s mighty transparent material.
Amazing you saw that thing!
good job zim!

 

[old digger]

Very Nice! Looks like some of that clear agate.

 

[tnmudman]

Thats a little gem! Really cool to have that core of the same material too. I would display them together.

 

[Tdog]

Looks like some of that clear agate.

Ain't no quartz around here like that!

 

[arrow86]

That’s some high quality quartz..... nice find

 

[MosesOfTheSouth]

what a gem.

 

[ToddsPoint]

Flintknappers would pay $3/lb. for that stuff. Gary

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Nice find there

 

[Tony in SC]

Both are amazing finds!! A crystal point has been on my list for 'EVER'

 

[IAMZIM]

Both are amazing finds!! A crystal point has been on my list for 'EVER'

Other than this one, I have found the tip to one, but not a base, this was a really cool find to me, and I'm hoping eventually to find one that is whole!

 

[bravowhiskey]

very clean...looks like glass congrats

 

[joshuaream]

Does the larger piece show work? Just curious if it's a core, or just a natural chunk of raw material?

Btw, it's tough to get pictures of that material, you did a great job!

 

[IAMZIM]

Does the larger piece show work? Just curious if it's a core, or just a natural chunk of raw material?

Btw, it's tough to get pictures of that material, you did a great job!

It's hard to tell if it was purposefully chipped, or if it was done by nature. I feel that both could be the case. All fractures are pretty clean, but I don't know if it would have been from man or from water/freezing action. It was from the shoreline of a reservoir, so I think the water action with freezing could do it, but I'm really not sure. I know that it would have originally been a six sided crystal prism, as I find these all the time in the area, and purposely dig for quartz crystals, but this one has been fractured into a crude "square" shape, again, don't know if man did it or nature. I have found core material of many types in this area that I know were brought here and used to make points/scrapers/tools, and do collect them because of the material that they are. I have found basalt debtiage, as well as jasper, chert, agate, and even obsidain. I'm an amateur when it comes to artifacts, so I would need someone who knows there stuff to look at it, and tell me why it would be either thing (if that make sense). As far as this area goes, even though I am an amateur artifact hunter, I know that the reason I find this stuff here is because it is right dead smack in the path of a major elk migration path, and has been for thousands of years. I researched where the path goes from Idaho to the middle of Montana, because I hunt elk, and everywhere on this "path", me and others have found either artifacts, or know of historical info on this migration route.