Kentucky creek find

[mark1j]

Found this one the other day in a creek. Western Kentucky.

 

[Tentwing]

…… WOW

 

[GeorgiaGlockMan]

Congrats.

 

[Redbow]

Mighty pretty, and your hand might be the first to touch that artifact again in several hundred years.

 

[ghadarits]

Very nice! Looks like a knife to me but I’m no expert. Cool patina too.

 

[Duff]

Very nice!!

 

[flconch53]

Mighty pretty, and your hand might be the first to touch that artifact again in several hundred years.

More like several thousand

 

[mark1j]

I like finding them but don’t know anything about them. Can anybody tell me anything about it as far as age or what kind of point or knife?

 

[NCHillbilly]

I like finding them but don’t know anything about them. Can anybody tell me anything about it as far as age or what kind of point or knife?

It's a late stage unfinished preform. They still lacked a couple thinning flakes on that upper left-hand side where the striking platform is already set up to take percussion flakes. Without it being finished or notched, it's hard to date. Really nice find, and really interesting material it's made from.

 

[antharper]

Nice , really like the material !

 

[Nicodemus]

That material looks similar to raw jasper, with a river or creek patina on it.