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Prehistoric rhyolite flakes.

Rhyolite | Object #: 1691483

Count: 252. Tertiary flakes. Lengths range from 16.53mm to 4.48mm.

Prehistoric quartzite flakes.

Quartzite | Object #: 1691485

Flake lengths range from 38.9mm to 10.03mm. Count: 20.

Prehistoric quartz flakes.

Quartz | Object #: 1692787

Flake lengths range from 37.94mm to 15.07mm. Count: 6.

Late Archaic, Savannah River-type projectile point.

Quartzite | Object #: 1692814

Tip or distal end broken. Almost lanceolate with rudimentary shoulders. Concave base.

late Archaic, Savannah River projectile point.

Quartzite | Object #: 1692817

Tip or distal end broken. Concave base.

Late Archaic, Bare Island-type projectile point.

Quartzite | Object #: 1692821

Tip or distal end broken.

Late Archaic, Lehigh Koens/Crispin knife or broadspear.

Rhyolite | Object #: 1692830

Tip or distal end broken.

Late Archaic, Savannah River or Savannah River variant-type (Holmes Point) projectile point.

Quartzite | Object #: 1692863

Large, heavy, triangular blade point with a broad, square and straight stem. Straight or concave base.

Middle Archaic, Guilford-type projectile point.

Quartzite | Object #: 1692873

Small leaf-shaped point with concave base.

late Archaic, Poplar Island projectile point.

Quartzite | Object #: 1692899

Late Archaic, Savannah River variant-type projectile point.

Quartz | Object #: 1692928

Tip or distal end chipped off (almost complete). Evidence of basal thinning by flaking. Straight base.

Early Archaic, Palmer-type projectile point.

Quartz | Object #: 1692934

Tip or distal end broken. Straight base.

Prehistoric chopping tool.

Quartzite | Object #: 1692943

Prehistoric chopping tool.

British (gray) gunflint.

Chert/Flint, Grey-Black | Object #: 1693048

Modified spall.

French (honey brown) gunflint.

Chert/Flint, Honey-Brown | Object #: 1694071

Modified spall (Honerkamp and Harris 2005:102, figure 6).

Blonde blade-based gunflint.

Chert/Flint, Honey-Brown | Object #: 1829427

Color associated with french flint/chert. Appears retouched and used along multiple edges. Blade- based gunflints perfected mid-18th century (Kenmotsu, 1990:100).

Brown "chalk-heel" gunflint.

Chert/Flint, Honey-Brown | Object #: 1829450

Parks Canada notes "chalk-heel" flints retain portions of cortex from original nodule. Slightly concave back.

Blonde gunspall-type gunflint fragment.

Chert/Flint, Honey-Brown | Object #: 1829468

Wedge-shaped

Gray flint/chert core.

Chert/Flint, Grey-Black | Object #: 1829506

Same material as finished gunflints; tag says "Dover chert". Multiple negative flake scars and a series of bulbs of percussion along one edge.

Gray flint/chert core with cortex.

Chert/Flint, Grey-Black | Object #: 1829713

Opaque and darker than core 1829506.