Flint Ridge Blades (post yours here)

Small cache of Flint Ridge Adena Blades,  Ohio, x - Converse , looks like they were all made off the same core. Got any Flint Ridge blades? post em in here lets see some eye candy.

This is why you are in charge in virginia.let me see what i can dig up?thats a real nice set of blades you got there.unquestionably from the same block of flint.killr

  You are now in charge.

I don't have many pieces of Flint Ridge as we don't find many in Illinois. This is the only one that I have a picture of handy but its not a blade. The dove was found near Harrisburg in Illinois which is on the very South Eastern Edge of the state. It is about 5 inches long

Real nice piece Mooch, they all are great quality. Two killer doves and hardin.

heres a few i have pics of 37,more preforms than blades.

good looking ridge, thanks for putting those beauties on display, unbelievable color.

thx 37,not as nicely chipped as your blades,may have to dig out some stuff i dont have pics of,your blades are making me jealous.

thx 37,not as nicely chipped as your blades,may have to dig out some stuff i dont have pics of,your blades are making me jealous.

Yeah but you've got sites that could produce artifacts like those. I can only buy it, or hope to find a rare and random piece in WV, I've never found any ridge in Va.

You are now in charge.

No thanks, just here to learn and share and throw up some eye candy every once in awhile.

I had to have a piece of the ridge so I bought this kirk at the Collinsville show.
Not really a blade, but I thought I'd share.
It's from Sharpsburg KY.

that is one of nicest kirks i have seen SoIll ,woo doggy that is a nice piece of ridge.thx for sharing that pic

Spectacular point Solll, a killer in all regards. I know Kirks vary alot from area to area and it could be a Kirk, but with the large notches and expanding base, it could be a Motley?

Spectacular point Solll, a killer in all regards. I know Kirks vary alot from area to area and it could be a Kirk, but with the large notches and expanding base, it could be a Motley?

thats funny you mentioned that.when i first looked at it i thought it was more like a hopewell point than a kirk,kirks usually have much narrower notches.i once got into a debate with matt rowe on motleys,and from that debate he ruled out a motley being found that far out of the area of distribution,mo.,arks.okla.so who knows.i know its a killer piece.

Thanks for the compliments.
I just say Kirk because that was what the guy who sold it was calling it.
I think "Kirk" gets stuck on a lot of points that aren't really that type. 

Fort ancient knife and an x-Hothem preform.

you are killin me 37,promised the ole lady i would get some stuff done around the house today.there isnt a cloud in the sky and its approaching 70 degrees,I should be in a creek.And now you are showin some killer ridge!may have to go get some bread & milk and say i got lost.thing with that is i better find some good stuff, then i can justify being in the dog house

Haha, I know what you mean. I'm having a tough time staying in on this really nice day, I feel like I played two football games from kayaking up river and hunting yesterday. Good luck if you hit the creeks.

the three might be ridge but im not sure found the blades in waynesville ohio

Sweet Ohio frame trevmma, those three blades sure look like flint ridge to me, niceuns too. Killer lost lake and Cosh. blade(looks like an early piece from here)...thanks for sharing.

soill,  :wav:killer just killer

SoIll's multicolored point, IMHO, is a Snyders point (Hopewell).

I also agree that the term "Kirk" is pretty much a garbage can that nearly anything that isn't obviously something else can get disposed of in.

Thirty7 : that is an outrageously beautiful Cobbs !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I thought it was a cobbs too. Whatever it is it's spectacular!

I feel so left out never having found this flint ridge material. I do not think a fort payne or dover post would make good eye candy. Thanks for sharin all the candy.  Its something else for sure. 
TnMtns

I'm not disputing what you say. But your first picture of it (phpvTx0cHPM.jpg) sure as heck looks like it's distinctly beveled, and the quartering end view's congruent with that.

http://lib.oh.us/point/identify/bifacial/points/straight/ftancbld.html

It looks beveled in a 2d picture, you have to turn the piece in hand to see that both sides are flaked into a typical biface edge.

Both edges look like this >, not this \.

I feel so left out never having found this flint ridge material. I do not think a fort payne or dover post would make good eye candy. Thanks for sharin all the candy.  Its something else for sure. 
TnMtns

when you and 37 come up here to hunt the ridge you will no longer feel left out.one of my best spots very close to the ridge just got deep plowed in the last few days and so all we need is for mother nature to do her magic and for you guys to get them bags packed.group hunt weekend just got put on stanby notice.37 that is a sweet piece.

I feel so left out never having found this flint ridge material. I do not think a fort payne or dover post would make good eye candy. Thanks for sharin all the candy.  Its something else for sure. 
TnMtns

I think a ft payne or dover post would be a good post material, both fine lithics imo. I've only found a few pieces of ridge in WV, it's scarce and probably made it's way south through trade. Dont feel left out man, you're in Tn, maybe the most artifact rich state in the country, top three anyway imo. I just dont have the opportunity and time to hunt Oh., so I buy it to add to the collection. Looking foward to doing some hunting with you guys in the near future. Did you guys get all that rain? it hammered the rain down here for 36 hours straight, this weekend should be great hunting conditions.

Yes. I have been under water here since mid summer. We have had record amounts of rain. 300 year old oaks are falling over the ground its so saturiated. But the metal detector is kicking out Civil war lead from pretty deep.The fields are still in soy beans due to the rain. Be fun to do a group hunt. I might be able to arrange a dig on private lands also if anyone is interested. Looks like I will have some spare weekends in the spring.
  Oh yeah remember the archiac knife I posted it was kinda like what you showed above. It was papered as a cobbs. I do not put much value in the paper though.

 Nice post Ryan,, great flint all.
HH
TnMtns

few more blades and a fr chalcedony paleo uniface knife.

Great ridge relics...

heres a few

Nice looking artifacts Jeff, the adena / woodland blade is an awesome piece. Is that a big uniface on the right?

Great Stuff All!!!!!!!!!!!  Love all the Ridge I can see!!!!!!!!
Here is a favorite of mine.  Didn't find it, but it is old.  Haven't measured it in a while, but around 5 1/2" long.
Jon Dickinson.

Wow, what a killer blade, super piece o' ridge too. Thanks for letting us see that monster.

Heres some Ive personally found.

Really nice group of fr blades pickaway.

real nice relics jeff a,jon d.pick that is a nice group of ridge.maybe we will thaw a few like those out of the mud tomorrow.

Pickaway,
Wish I lived in the land of Ridge like you!!!!!!  Awesome personal finds!!!!!!!!  Besides a couple of famous Hopewell sites around Cincinnati, we find very little flint ridge in extreme South West Ohio.  I have always found this interesting considering we find tons or Hornstone and Carter Cave.  The quarries are all about the same distance from my area.  I have to figure it is the easy river route on Hornstone and Carter that made it prevelant in the area.
I found another pic in my computer of some Flint Ridge blades.  The left side piece is my best Ridge blade.  It is a cobbs form, and was collected originally by Dr. Stan Copeland.  He is widely considered to be Ohio's best all time flint collector.  The center blade was over 7".  I sold it a few years back.  The right side piece is a repeat from my previous post.
Regards,
Jon Dickinson.   

That Cobbs is beyond killer, league of it's own imo.

This is an Adena cache leaf blade found in Elyria township in Lorain county, Ohio.

Thirty7 that Adena Cache blade is spectacular. It is fantastic. What color.
Been a fun post to sit back and watch.Thanks.
TnMtns

pointdr those are some incredible blades,37 that is one of the best looking cache blades i have laid eyes on.thx for sharing all the great relcis everyone.

Thanks ppl, pointdlr looks like your findin the killer ridge!!!!, superb artifacts...

Isitu of a heartbreaker monster ridge blade  i found today 12/15. 4" long broke...

Nice pick, looks like high quality ridge, great find and insitu pic! Good to see some peeps getting some late hunts in.

Some heartbreak ridge blades I've found

Wow pick, nice...I guess you've tried matching those guys up?


Here's a flint ridge woodland leaf blade I got the other day.

Some heartbreak ridge blades I've found

Lots of high quality broken blades, cache?

Wow pick, nice...I guess you've tried matching those guys up?


Here's a flint ridge woodland leaf blade I got the other day.

Thats a nice blade 37 love the colors,,, yea have gone cross eyed trying to match em, 15 so far...

here a few I like. I didn't know if it was blades only so I put in a pic of a dove too. Enjoy. Scott

Wow those are nice Scott, dig the one marked Pickaway County...

An old pic from 07.

I have had this for a long time
it is the only piece I have that did not come from my field

I have had this for a long time
it is the only piece I have that did not come from my field

now thats a killer hopewell

I have had this for a long time
it is the only piece I have that did not come from my field

Yea I agree nice Hopewell, and found in Pickaway county,

Nice Copeland Hopewell there Mr. Larson!

Diggin this thread...The 2 on left are woodland tools both found together,

Good looking ridge artifacts guys thanks, I like those woodland tools pick!

Nice points and colorful bladelets Jeff.

Killer Hopewell Lars.

Here's a hopewell with an earlier flute on one side, made of fr chalcedony.


   

heres a nice little hopewell

whats left of a very patinated fluted point

Great pieces!!! 37 is that a earlier piece worked into a hopewell?
Heres a pic of a days dig finds from 08.

Another i found...

Some I've found in fields...

Great pieces!!! 37 is that a earlier piece worked into a hopewell?
Heres a pic of a days dig finds from 08.

I'm nearly positive it is pick. It looks like some of the paleo flaking is still there, along with the flute. Hopewell man just added some notches.

Nice looking blade, that translucent piece is sweet.

 

Thats cool ive heard and seen a few pieces on the net like that, killer blades...

Worked bladelet flake. FR chalcendony.

Nice edgework on that piece pickaway. This is a small blade / preform made from Flint Ridge Nethers.

37 dude that piece is perfect!!!
Heres some I found today 1-23-10

Couple more I've found...

Nice looking blades Pick, I really like the red variety of ridge you're picking up in your previous post. Wont be too long until prime hunting conditions.

Find 2-4-10

Nice job Pickaway, congrats on that piece. Good timing too, right before the snowstorm.

Thanks man.were getting slammed no dirt for awhile!