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Name Details:
Named By: Gary F. Fogelman
Named For:  Virginville, Berks County, Pennsylvania
Date Identified: 1988
Type Site: 
 Virginville
(Collector Type)
Cluster:







Commonly Utilized Material:
quartzite and rhyolite

Date:                   
Cultural Period:   
5,000 - 4,000 B.P.
Middle Archaic
Neoglacial
                          

Glacial Period:
Culture:
     
      


Outline is Representative of Common Size and Shape:



Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:

This is a broad medium to large triangular contracting stem point with an elliptical cross section.  The blade is excurvate.  The shoulders are weak, rounded, and at an upward angle.  The stem is contracting with a convex base.  This point has a random flaking pattern.

Size Measurements:  Total Length - 50 to 80 mm (average 70 mm),  Stem Length - 18 to 28 mm,  Blade Width - 28 to 40 mm
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:

This point is primarily found in the Delaware River Valley of eastern Pennsylvania, western New Jersey, northeastern Maryland, and Delaware.

Similar Points:
Conodoquinet, Lehigh, Koens Crispin, Morrow Mountain, Piscataway, Poplar Island, Schuylkill
Related / Associated Points: 
Additional Comments:

This point was named after Virginville, Pennsylvania, but it has been referred to as the Virginville point in many publications.




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Point Validity:   Collector Type

Fogelman is a distinguished avocational archaeologist who has published many influential books on archaeology. and considered an artifact expert in northeastern archaeology.  This type was named in a personally published book on projectile points. and has limited professional references with most references to a "Virginville-like" point.  This type has many collector type references.  This is considered a collector type.




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Age Details:
Pictures Provided By:
Lee W.
Kurt Eberly


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References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):

23, 30, 57, 60
Virginville Projectile Point, Virginville Arrowhead
Virginsville Projectile Point, Virginsville Arrowhead