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Basket of Arrowheads - REVISITED
RickB:
I was at the local flea market a few weeks ago and gave a young couple $6.00 for this woven kudzu basket full of hundreds of arrowheads. I could see that many were missing tips/bases but I still saw some that were perfect or near perfect. I ended up with about a gallon bag of decent ones worth framing and displaying. All these points came from an estate and were collected locally long ago just a few miles from where I live in SC. All are made of mostly local rock - quartz, quartzite and rhyolite. Many ages are represented. The oldest point I found in the basket is what I believe to be a transitional Hardaway-Dalton (10,000 - 9,000 BP) which is broad, notched with basal thinning and grinding on both sides - this one has a beveled edge. Latest would be many woodland era stemmed and triangular points (500 BC - AD 1100). Photos below - quarter in basket for size comparison. Rick B
Ryan Jacob:
What a deal, 6 USD for about a hundred arrowheads! Or is that a typo ???
RickB:
Ryan, that was 6 US dollars for several hundred points. They weigh 12 pounds.
Trapper Rob:
You got one heck of a deal.
Zuma:
Wow you did good/ Basket too? :)
Zuma
Want to double your money? >:D
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