[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] It lay in a completely reversed position from its original resting place. There is no question of the artifact's primary location as it was clearly visible 7.6 cm (3 in) into the yellowish subsoil. The soil had never before been plowed to that depth. Thorough testing of the area revealed no other occupational signs. Four years later in the same exact locale, I found on the surface a shallow side-notched, deeply weathered spear point similar in some respects to the fluted point. In 1979, I found a Paleo-Indian style side-scraper 823 m (2700 ft) from the first find site and 274 m (900 ft) from the Flax Mill stream. The artifact was discovered on a Wallington soil type surface, a poorly drained, medium-textured soil with a slowly permeable fragipan formed in glacial lakes (Winkley 1972:52-53).
This find was made on what would have been an island within a glacial pond. A few points of Late Archaic affiliation along with an occasional isolated chip or fire-cracked stone have turned up in other fields bordering the Flax Mill. Two Late Archaic sites, Lauder (a River Phase site [Ashton 1990] and Kenyon (a Laurentian site), are located within a distance of 6 km (4 mi). Three fire-cracked stones were noted 55 m (180 ft) south of the fluted point location. Thorough shovel testing in this area disclosed nothing. The fluted point and side-scraper were manufactured from a glossy, fine-grained gunmetal tinted Normanskill chert Figure 2. Fluted point from the Batten Kill area.