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Hunting upland sites takes a lot of patience but can be very rewarding. After walking corn rows on a low ridge above a small branch for about two hours and only finding a handful of chips and some fire-cracked rock, I was walking back to my truck when spied the little axe. I bent down to pick it up and as I straightend up I saw the sidenotched point just a few feet from it. The axe is 3 3/8" long and made from a high quality black and white speckled stone and the side-notch point is 3 7/8" long and made from heat-treated Burlingon chert. I believe they were deposited together, possibly as grave offerings, or just plain lost together. Althought the point has a small nick on the part of the blade, the axe is perfect. That they survived in this condition I find remarkable as the field had been plowed, disced, and harrowed and the corn was about 4" high when I found them. |