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CROWFIELD POINT
(CAST)
CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY, NEW YORK
(ORIGINAL) IN BOB OVERSTREET COLLECTION
COPYRIGHT
APRIL 30, 2003 PETER A. BOSTROM
CAST
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CROWFIELD POINT (CAST)
CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY, NEW YORK
BOB OVERSTREET COLLECTION
This Crowfield point was found sometime before 1956 by Waldo
Stanford near the town of Busti in Chautauqua County, New York on
the bank of Stillwater Creek. He said "I found the blade where
the sod had slid a few inches. It was sticking out of some loose
soil between the loose sod and the top of the bank."
The type-site for Crowfield points is located
near the town of London at the southern tip of Ontario, Canada.
Excavation at this site in the early 1980’s produced 30 fluted
bifaces along with over 170 other tools, blanks and preforms in
association with a large pit. All these items had been exposed to
intense heat.
Crowfield points are considered to be possibly
the latest fluted point form to be found in the northeast. They have
been reported from Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont
and Ontario. An estimated date for this point type may be somewhere
around 10,700 years ago.
This Crowfield point is very thin and skillfully
made. It measures 2 7/8 inches (7.2 cm) long and is made of light
gray Onondaga chert.
This
point was illustrated by William A. Richie in the 1957 edition of
"Traces of Early Man in the Northeast", New York State
Museum Bulletin Number 358.
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