Actually 5 arrowheads, counting the 2 that Christopher found.
Monday, cool and rainy, trip out past Balfour with Christopher, do some prospecting up Cedar creek road. Some interesting rocks, promising conditions, but no great finds.
Then back to Balfour where we comb the washout from the ferry landing run off, Chris a few feet ahead of me finds 2 arrowheads, both in relatively great condition:
I'm annoyed beyond measure, but we keep hunting, going down the beach past the restaurant, the bad neighbor to where the new trailer park will be. And heads-down comb the beach for about 3 hours in the drizzle and rain.
In the end I find a total of 3 arrowheads and a couple of scrapers, tools, and a pile of rocks. Just rocks, interesting to me.
Below:
bottom left, a scraper, green chert, you can see the knapping on the edge. Next to it a yellow-ish spear head, the yellow is a patina that forms on the chert over thousands of years, making it tough to spot (vs the fresher flakes), but to handle it you can feel every divot and knapped edge. No coin for scale but it's about an inch and a half long. I say spear vs arrowhead as it's a little think in the center, not well enough balanced to be fired off from a bow. To the right on the bottom, a fresher point, beside that, a grey arrowhead, again covered in patina, next to that a needle or aul, otherwise, a few other tools, scrapers, flakes, and the assorted rocks that I find interesting and invariably stuff my pockets full of. The pink quartzite "scraper" is a paleo-maybe, no obvious signs of work but I found it a little too conveniently shaped to leave behind.
Now, getting a taste for the season...