Exotic Lithic Gallery
Fluted Points
Fluted points (~10K years old): the left one is small for a fluted point, the right one is as poor an example as one could find: with an off-center flute, a broken tip and made from slate. The small one together with a couple of other flakes were the only items of any kind in the confield north of Warner's pond; all from the ridge of the old lakeshore. The broken slate one is from the Old Way to Common Land. I am told that nice fluted points have been found in Concord.
Stark Points
Lower row, Stark points (~7K years old), left to right: Cambridge argillite knife, Red ryolite knife, argillite point, gray felsite (from Quincy/Saugus?) point. Upper row, Neville Points, (similar age as Stark points): argillite and some kind of sandstone. These are the classic point shape for Concord, found mostly along ponds north of revolution ridge.
Brewerton Points
Brewerton Points (~6K years old), left to right: weathered argillite, black felsite (from Westwood?), black felsite, brown "chert". These are found in the same locations as the Stark points. The first is repaired from fragments found at different times.
Eared Brewerton Point of argillite.
Untyped Points
The leftmost has a flat base and is heavily weathered with a dark interior visible at the broken tip, beautifully worked. The small thin quartz point has notches high on its sides. The small unfinished point is a rare point made from Sudbury mylinite, a green semi-translucent stone. These are all from Asparagus Farm and the Old Way to Common Land.
Small Points
These small points are from the late archaic-early woodland ~3K years ago. Left to right: brown felsite small stemmed point, black felsite concave base point, bown quartzite concave base point. Dime.
Woodland Triangular Points
These are common mid-late woodland quartz triangular points, perhaps ~1K years old. They continue the trend away from fine flaking.
Knives and Scrapers
These fine blades are mid-woodland knives. The left one is from Woodbridge Connecticut, shown for comparison. The right one, made of a brown shale, has a ground depression running up the base, suggesting hafting. It is from Asparagus Farm.
This brown felsite item is called a "Teardrop scraper", from the late archaic-early woodland.
This is a fine bit of flaking, a very narrow black felsite point, perhaps an awl or drill.
Left picture: these single shouldered knives are found in the same
places as Stark and Brewerton points, the materials (top to bottom:
quartz, brown quartzite, mylinite) are also the same as used in Stark points, suggesting a late Stark age. Right picture: ovoid scrapers from Asparagus Farm (top to bottom: black felsite, gray felsite, pale felsite with large black intrusions).
Stone Axe
This is a very large argillite axehead. It is unusual to see axeheads that are flaked and not ground. This is from typically a few yards away from Stark points, and is made of their favorite argillite. The location has other broken axeheads, suggesting a typical use, such as cutting trees.
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