Seen this today !

[antharper]

Stopped at the West Point Corp office today to get me and my dad a hunting permit . They have been in this case forever and I always thought they looked to be fakes . Anyway this older gentleman that was working today seen me checking them out and said rumor was them and a lot more were found on the Alabama side of the lake when they were clearing out for one of the campgrounds . What y’all say ? I should have gotten better pictures . I’ve lived here for 20 years and found quite a few points but nothing made of this material , mostly quartz . The little bowl did look real though .

 

[Liberty]

Lots of early settlers around these parts also. The house that I grew up in was close to a Civil War battlefield and was part of a farm that worked into the 60’s/plantation. We found everything from oil lamps to a well pulley to wound up generally being much later that the civil war.

 

[NCHillbilly]

Those look to be made from NC silicified slate, AKA green rhyolite, and all the hangnails and wierd-for-area point types indicate that they aren't that old to me. I doubt seriously that those are ancient points.

 

[White Horse]

I’ve seen those myself. I grew up in Troup County, and found a point or two myself in the area. I knew one of the famous old collectors over there and went hunting points with him a time or two. I was with another friend when he found a Clovis point near the Park Mound, now submerged under the West Point Reservoir.

I say all that to say that those are most certainly replicas.

 

[antharper]

I’ve seen those myself. I grew up in Troup County, and found a point or two myself in the area. I knew one of the famous old collectors over there and went hunting points with him a time or two. I was with another friend when he found a Clovis point near the Park Mound, now submerged under the West Point Reservoir.

I say all that to say that those are most certainly replicas.

Thanks for the reply ! I was pretty certain these were replicas . I’ve found quite a few around the lake while hunting . Of course I didn’t pick them up and that has to be the dumbest law ever . What area of the lake is the park mound ? I’m not from here , I’ve been here 20 years and it was already a lake long before I moved here

 

[White Horse]

Park Mound is in the triangle shaped intersection where Yellowjacket Creek empties into the river. I visited there several times in 1975 just before the lake was filled. It’s a big pyramid shaped mound. 20 years ago you could still see the mound shape with a sonar transceiver set up to show the shape of the bottom.

 

[Nicodemus]

Stopped at the West Point Corp office today to get me and my dad a hunting permit . They have been in this case forever and I always thought they looked to be fakes . Anyway this older gentleman that was working today seen me checking them out and said rumor was them and a lot more were found on the Alabama side of the lake when they were clearing out for one of the campgrounds . What y’all say ? I should have gotten better pictures . I’ve lived here for 20 years and found quite a few points but nothing made of this material , mostly quartz . The little bowl did look real though . View attachment 1250100View attachment 1250101View attachment 1250102

Those points are made of Coastal Plains chert, and they look like replicas. They don`t have any particular "shape" to them.

 

[antharper]

Park Mound is in the triangle shaped intersection where Yellowjacket Creek empties into the river. I visited there several times in 1975 just before the lake was filled. It’s a big pyramid shaped mound. 20 years ago you could still see the mound shape with a sonar transceiver set up to show the shape of the bottom.

I bet you still can . My dad has some pretty good electronics. Next time I’m in that area I’ll see what I can see . I live between beech and yellow jacket creeks . Thanks