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A nice day out, a flake knife, and an old pipe

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Posted Nov 17, 2009, 07:37:34 am

Got out for a short hunt on Sunday. The site is at the confluence of a river and a creek and I'm pretty sure it was a hunting camp since I find a lot of flakes, scrapers, broken points, and heat cracked rock. On Sunday I found a nice sharp uniface flake knife (or maybe an end scraper?) and some smaller blades, scrapers, flakes, etc.

No 12" crystal Clovises but it was a nice day anyway.  Smiley

I've also been researching a pipe I found last year. A friend said it was a trade pipe... not sure. Seems to be a very early European style (like 1600s-early 1700s) but there were few white settlers in my area then. Any ideas?
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Reply To This Topic #1 Posted Nov 17, 2009, 08:16:52 am

Your main piece is what's called a retouched flake -- unmistakably a tool.
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Reply To This Topic #2 Posted Nov 17, 2009, 01:50:29 pm

On the pipe I would say colonial era. Nice finds.Looks like its a good place to hunt
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Reply To This Topic #3 Posted Nov 19, 2009, 07:48:02 am

Tanx for the replies  Smiley
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Reply To This Topic #4 Posted Nov 20, 2009, 07:19:25 pm

Its funny how a good site will have the remains of many cultures. I would sweep with a metal detector. Double the fun.
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Reply To This Topic #5 Posted Nov 23, 2009, 01:38:21 pm

That is a fine pipe stem for sure. I find a ton of those at a site that sounds just like yours. I have many broken pipe fragments, lots of stems and one complete bowl. I would love to get a copy of that chart that you have in the background. is it something that would be easy for you to scan? if not.... please tell me the publication and I will buy it. In any case... great finds. Happy Thanksgiving!

Who looks outward, dreams.
Who looks inward, awakes.

Carl Gustav Jung
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