NYSAA Bulletin No. 26 — Croton Point Midden Excavation — Passage 5 (part 14)

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] At midden Locus 1 at Kettle Rock where Vinette I-like pottery occurred in two spots opposite each other on the midden periphery the meager artifact midden content consisted of a 2 in, long fishtail point, a 3 in. long narrow side-notched point, a narrow simple stemmed point, a large, broad asymmetric knife, two smaller knives, typical hammer stones and mullers, two quartzite choppers with considerable quartzite chipping debris and bluegray (possibly Onondaga)chert strip blades with blue-gray and black chert spalls. At midden Locus 3 at Kettle Rock the artifactual association with the pottery is not precise because the material recovered occurred at the edge of a midden complex of several separate heaps. The point styles included one thorn-shouldered point, one simple stemmed narrow point, a narrow asymmetric point, a point that is probably in 14 THE BULLETIN the fishtail tradition, four broad-stemmed points that would elsewhere be called Gary stemmed and three triangulars.

Strip blades, use of quartzite, typical hammerstones and mullers and half a polished winged bannerstone occurred if not with the pottery at least in similar stratigraphy. In midden Locus 4, where the Vinette I-like pottery was found in stratigraphic position, the only artifact that has turned up so far in the same dump is the base of a fishtail-like point smaller than but similar to the fish-tail point in midden Locus I.