Sept 2001
Found this little hatchet in the Stark style. Sorry about quality of (b).
a  b  

Sept 2001
Slim pickings for 1999 and 2000
(a) Merrimac point made from pinkish Quartzite - Asparagus Farm (today)
(b) Gouge of brown argillite (mudstone), Far behind Fox House (last spring)
(c) Brewerton in excellent condition, probably re-worked tip. Gay felsite. From Asparagus Farm two years ago.
a   b  c 
 

December 21, 1998

It hasn't been a good year for collecting, and I cannot think of any complete new arrowhead that I have found since last updating this web page. I have located some new places for hunting. Most recently I found this broken tipped Stark point, made of pale brown quartzite, at the Carlisle Cranberry bogs. Before that, I started finding debris and found one fluted point in the corn field north of Warner's pond in West Concord - out beyond the prison.

This year at that site I found these two fragments of quartz points. An arrowhead identification chart I own indicates these are Hardaway-Dalton points from the late Paleo period. Taken together with the fluted point that I found here (the leftmost of the two fluted points under "Exotic Lithics") there is some consitency to the idea that this is a late paleo site.

The following two 'blades' are from Asparagus Farm.

Finally I was able to add to my collection of flaked Argillite axes (now I have two). This is just a small hatchet and it is covered with a brown residue of some kind. Perhaps it is tree pitch. In both views there are a number of plow scratches to ignore.

So that is about it for new finds in 1998. There are a couple of other damaged points, like this Brewerton point made of Hornblende.

One time during the year I took out all my broken blade fragments. To my surprise I had most of the pieces of three separate blades. They are probably not worth illustrating. What is worth illustrating, even though they are not beautiful, is this collection of slate and Argillite blades. They are found in the same locations as Stark point and probably come from the Midlle Archaic 3 to 7 K years ago.

Note the characteristic wavey left edge on the lower two blades. The lower left blade appears fire stained.

A final chapter to the story of Sleepy Hollow North - the cemetery expansion - is that after they dug up the whole area I spent a winter looking through the dirt they disturbed. It wasn't until spring that the soil had received enough moisture to wash down the surface debris, and I found one treasure for my efforts. This blade is about four inches long, one third inch front to back and is made from a brown shale or slate. The cutting edge (the lower edge in the picture) is completely rounded and worn down. One gets the impression this was used quickly and discarded. There are a number of plow scratches to ignore.