St. Charles Type V

[OntarioArch]

Acquired this 3.25 inch beauty from a collection with little provenance except "these artifacts were collected in Ohio area." Using Robert Edler's Early Archaic Indian Points & Knives, it looks to me like it could be his St. Charles Type V, known by many as simply a Dovetail. Edler states that this type is characterized by the notch in the center of its base; the notch being created by removing flakes from one face of the blade only; basal edge is ground; blade is heavy and usually beveled; often made of Coshocton flint.
Too bad about the obvious damage.
Here are four images to see if you agree with my type identification. Thanks!

 

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[Tdog]

Looks like a Coshocton St. Charles dovetail to me. I'd say you IDed it correctly and got a good one to boot.

 

[joshuaream]

A great example of a popular type. For a collector it's a classically Ohio looking style of dovetail. The first picture, the complete notch is a wonderful example of that early archaic punch notch that is found on a couple of types.

There was push many years back to split hairs, and subdivide dovetails/St Charles /Plevna into all the different variants, and eventually you wind up with 15 or so types across a huge area (Ontario, Minnesota/Dakotas, Midwest, Tennessee, Alabama), many with a notched base sub variant. Most collectors just use Dovetail or St Charles. Many Archaeologists just call all of them Early Archaic notched bifaces, or occasionally refer to the Andice/St Charles cluster to include most of the similarly aged points that have that notch style.

 

[newnan man]

Nice Ohio Dovetail point. One of my favorites.

 

[OntarioArch]

A great example of a popular type. For a collector it's a classically Ohio looking style of dovetail. The first picture, the complete notch is a wonderful example of that early archaic punch notch that is found on a couple of types.

There was push many years back to split hairs, and subdivide dovetails/St Charles /Plevna into all the different variants, and eventually you wind up with 15 or so types across a huge area (Ontario, Minnesota/Dakotas, Midwest, Tennessee, Alabama), many with a notched base sub variant. Most collectors just use Dovetail or St Charles. Many Archaeologists just call all of them Early Archaic notched bifaces, or occasionally refer to the Andice/St Charles cluster to include most of the similarly aged points that have that notch style.

So an "early archaic punch notch" is one strike, one punch, one blow to form that nice notch? Quite the craftsman!

 

[Tdog]

So an "early archaic punch notch" is one strike, one punch, one blow to form that nice notch? Quite the craftsman!

I think that's it! Not only on this type but several in the period.