NYSAA Bulletin No. 39 — Hudson Valley Shell Midden Dating — Passage 9 (part 6)
[Various (1967)] The feature contained about 200 fist-sized rocks, cracked by fire. A Normanskill point, a narrow point blank, flint chips, and 3 carbonized acorn cotyledons were associated. A small quantity of charcoal was carefully collected. Most of the artifacts in the collection are projectile points. Thirteen of the points are good examples of the Normanskill type (plate 2, figs. 1-9). Six broad-bladed points with expanded stems have some attributes of the characteristic Normanskill notch, and probably fall within the extreme formal range of the type (figs. 12, 15, 19-21). Eight narrow bladed stemmed points (figs. 11, 13, 14, 16-18), 2 crude, thick broad-stemmed points, a large, indeterminate point (fig. 26), and a crude side-notched point with unfinished base (fig. 10) are also in the collection. In addition to finished points, there are 23 narrow point blanks or rejects and 10 narrow point tips or midsections. Worthy of note is 1 stemmed, crescentic knife (fig. 27). Common at Pickle Hill are scrapers of varied, often unusual, form (9) (figs. 22-25, 28-30). Generally, these are large, flat irregular flakes trimmed to curved, steeply bevelled edges which extend along 1/4-1/2 of their perimeters. Some can be described as "end-side" scrapers; others are strictly side scrapers. There are a number of worked pieces of flint. Other stone artifacts in the collection include whetstones (2) (plate 2, figs. 36, 37); an anvil- hammers tone (fig. 31); a shallow-lipped gouge (fig.