Nice blade found along the Illinois River

[arrow8]

The river dropped about 2 foot over night and I was the first to walk the river bank. I could see tracks about 4 foot above the water line where someone had walked the day before. I sure was surprised to catch a glimpse of flint about a foot up on the bank. I had my phone with me so i figured that I would try to get a good picture of a find.. I've tried this many times before only to be disappointed with a broken point or just a large flake of flint.
This time it paid off as you can see. The camp site is a popular fishing area and many use it. The first photo shows a bobby pin on top of the blade. After I took the first photo I used it to clean much of the mud off. got a hand full of water to wash it off in place and took the other photos.
The blade is 5 11/16" long X 1 3/4" wide X 3/8" thick (144.9 X 44.6 X36 mm)
Good color while wet, slight twist and it shows it has bevel on the top 3/4 of one side of the blade.
The site is predominately Woodland with some Mississippian. I have found many points and pottery shards along this stretch of river as well as signs of fire pits. This is by far the BEST.

[Justin Paul]

That is one sweet blade with nice color!!! wish my fishin' hole turned out stuff like that!!!

[sixeight]

WOW! That's Beautiful! Any cleaned up pics? Would love to see what else you have found. Thanks for sharin'.

[Wichita]

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[Scotto]

Very nice, yes let's see a clean-up pic!

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Here are two photos I just took of the Illinois River blade

[kirby]

Damn fine blade!!! What is the material?

[sixeight]

WOW! Damn Nice. Do you know the material?

[questor]

Holy cow. How nice is that. What a beauty!

[ghost recon]

Congrats on that nice big blade. Sweet piece of material. Do you find any Adena stuff at that spot?