Cypress Creek

Description:Medium to Large size broad stem point with expanded base and drooping  “umbrella” shoulders.” (Overstreet 7th Edition p. 387) This typology is suggested to be morphologically similar to the Kirk Corner Notch cluster. Form is seen as cross between Kirk and Lost Lake. This distinctive form is beveled on all four sides of the blade, and has archaic pressure and percussion flaking. (Stone Age Spear & Arrow Points, Justice, p. 71)

Age: Middle to Late Archaic, 5000-3000 B.P.

Distribution: Central & South Eastern regions

 

Origin: Barren CO. Kentucky

Material: Sonora flint, rind appears on base & tip.

Length: 2 7/8”

Width: 1 1/4”

Davis COA 

 Picture and Text provided by Robert Grimmer

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