Joel D. Kinard CISSP, CIAM, EIT
205 Airport Road
Monroe , NC 28110
Email address: jdkinard@gmail.com

The arrowheads below are artifacts that have been collected over the years by myself and my grandfather, Joe D. Kinard.  Most of the pieces were collected along streambeds, from areas just cleared for construction, or freshly-plowed, open fields just after a rainfall.  Several of the arrowheads are very worn with age, or are pieces fragmented from larger points.

A quarter or tape measure is included in the photographs, to lend a sense of scale to the specimens.

The large, broken point here is a fine specimen.  It was most likely used on the end of a spear of some kind, either a ceremonial piece or a hunters tool.
These assorted points are quite worn.
The red piece below is fashioned of Rose Quartz.  It is a very nearly perfect, unbroken shape, and is one of my favorite pieces.
This is a large, nearly perfect example of a stone tool.  It was most likely used as the head of a ceremonial axe.  It is about five inches long, and was found underwater, in the shallow bed of a small, cold mountain stream.	This piece was originally discovered by the noted author Archibald Rutledge, and given to my grandfather as a gift.  It is called a "banner stone", and was used in ceremonial Indian worship.  The piece is nearly perfect, with no flaws.  It is about 4 inches long.
	The hole in this banner stone was made by twisting a hardened object round and round many times. There is a little nipple left at the bottom of the hole, where the twisted object had a cavity on its end.
This is my finest example of a fluted point.  It is known as a "bird-point".  This arrowhead was made of flint, and was used on light arrows to hunt various birds.  Note the size of this point next to the quarter.