Thursday, June 17, 2010

Indian Artifacts

Derek was nice enough to take a few pictures of some points and a hammerstone I've been lucky enough to find over the years. The hammerstone was found at an old Indian campsite on the Walnut river in Butler county not far from where I live now, as well as the preform and two well made points. The small point is made of burlington chert which most likely came from missouri, and the preform and the larger point are a permian chert native to the area. Sadly, both of them were snapped off at the base. The Cowley county piece (on the left) is made of Kay county chert from Oklahoma. I managed to find a lot of other stuff at the site in Butler county, including a glass bead, several thumbscrapers, a bronze 1867 2 cent piece and various other metal and ceramic objects.