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Name Details:
Named By: Charlie Merry and WM Jack Hranicky
Named For: White Ferry
Virginia
Date Identified: 2001
Type Site: The Westo Bluff Site, Columbia County, Georgia
White Ferry
(Collector Type)
Cluster:
Commonly Utilized Material:
Date:
Cultural Period:
3,000 - 2,000 B.P.
Early Woodland
Neoglacial
Glacial Period:
Culture:
Outline is Representative of Common Size and Shape:
Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is a large lanceolate point with a thin elliptical cross section. The blade is excurvate with the tip curving in, becoming widest approx. midpoint of the blade, and
curving back in towards the base. The base is concave with rounded basal corners. This point has a random flaking pattern.
Size Measurements: Data Needed
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
This point is reported in Virginia.
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Point Validity: Collector Type
Merry is an avocational archeologist who collected through-out Virginia. This point
is based on his examples. Hranicky is an avocational archaeologist who was awarded the Archaeological Society of Virginia’s Avocational award in 1989. This point was named in his personally published
book, and has only been references in his books and has no professional recognition. Few local collectors use this name, this is considered a collector type.
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References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):
30
White Ferry Projectile Point, White Ferry Arrowhead
