Goshen Point and Mill Iron Site

CAST #P-6

GOSHEN POINT
MILL IRON SITE
CARTER COUNTY, MONTANA
Goshen point from the Mill Iron site.
CAST #P-6
GOSHEN POINT
MILL IRON SITE
CARTER COUNTY, MONTANA

This Goshen point was discovered during the excavation of the Mill Iron site in Carter County, Montana. It's the most skillfully crafted example found on the site. It was made with very uniform parallel pressure flaking on both sides. The base is also concave but straight in the basal cavity. One unique feature is a neatly flaked rounded point.
This point measures 3 1/8 inches long.

MILL IRON SITE

The Mill iron site is located in Carter County, Montana in the southeastern part of the state. It's now believed that it represents the Goshen Cultural Complex as it was described at the Hell Gap site in southeastern Wyoming. There are now five accelerator dates on the site that average over 11,000 years before present. It remains to be proven if Goshen is a Clovis variant or if it should be placed somewhere between Clovis and Folsom.
This site contains a single component and is buried under 1.5 to 1.8 meters of sterile deposits. One area is a camp site meat processing area and a short distance away is a bison bone bed that appears to be a deliberate piling of articulated and disarticulated bones and is not an actual kill area. Goshen projectile points demonstrate a wide range of variation, much of which results from reworking of broken specimens. (Frison, George C., 1991 pp 133-150)