drippin' rock
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I've been using several on line resources to teach myself how to identify points, but it can be a bit overwelming. I'm pretty sure this is a knife blade. It is 4 7/8" long. What's the name and region for this piece?
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Looks like a Cobb`s knife, and a really nice one. Early Archaic. Great find.
drippin' rock
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Thanks Nic. I wish I had found this myself! Got a good deal at a sale, so I jumped on it.
dtala
Senior Member
mighty slim for a Cobbs blade and no alternate beveling.
kinda looks Boggy Branch type 1 with no shoulders, mostly made of Coastal Plains chert and found in se Al and sw Ga.
kinda looks Boggy Branch type 1 with no shoulders, mostly made of Coastal Plains chert and found in se Al and sw Ga.
For sure it wouldn`t take much for that one to be a Boggy.
I only have one Boggy Branch in my collection. They are rare.
I only have one Boggy Branch in my collection. They are rare.
drippin' rock
Senior Member
Just from what I'm seeing on line, Boggy branch has a base and is serrated? When I pull up images of Cobb points, they look just like my point here.
dtala
Senior Member
you know the rule...it's yours, you name it!!! LOL
nice point no matter what it is.
nice point no matter what it is.
chehawknapper
ABO
It looks like it has first stage beveling on the left side. Wouldn't take much work to turn it into a boggy though.
Unless you set it down somewhere and lost it before you finished shaping and sharpening it....
I think that a lot of un-notched or un-stemmed point types are actually preforms that were finished to a certain stage and then stored, and never got finished for whatever reason. I do that myself quite often. If you flintknap, you know what your stemmed and notched points look like before you stem or notch them.
In any event, that is a killer piece, and a great find!
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