FINE ENGRAVED CRESCENT GORGET
I got this super piece from the finder at the Camden SC show on January 15, 2000. He surface found it in 1999 near the ancient village of Donnaha in Forsyth Co NC, on the upper Yadkin River. It is made of heavily patinated green/yellow chlorite schist, and reminds me of the British silver gorgets of the early Historic period. This is one of North Carolina's finest!
Super Jack's Reef Pentagonal
I found this thin bi-colored Jack's Reef in a plowed field in Lee Co NC on December 19. It is my final fine point of the 20th century. Note the resharpening occuring on one edge, beginning to create the pentagonal shape in this Woodland point made by the birdpoint people.
SLIM PICKENS
Found on March 12, these are better than nothing! At left, a quartzite Guilford type knife, center is a nice Guilford round base, right top is a rhyolite knife and bottom a quartz hafted scraper, fairly rare!
SEVERAL RELICS FROM THE SAME SITE AS THE AXE ABOVE- Left, a large portion of a rare ceremonial pick with engraving on the end; next a 4 3/8" Pee Dee knife from another Piedmont site, thin as a cracker and well flaked; top right a thin and well-made mica schist button or gorget; right bottom is a super brown-red banded slate pentagonal pendant. All but the knife are from the same site on Fishing Creek, collected over the last 30 years.
