CUMBERLAND POINT
(RE-BASE REPAIR ATTEMPT)
PHIL STRATTON SITE
LOGAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY

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     This damaged Cumberland point was found on the Phil Stratton Cumberland site in Logan Co., Kentucky. An attempt to repair the base is indicated by a small platform that is located on the center of the base but was never developed enough to be of much use. For some reason the attempt to rebase this point was abandoned. This point measures 4 inches long.
    The Phil Stratton site is a closed or single-component encampment of the Cumberland archaeological culture. Completed fluted projectile points, point preforms, a variety of scrapers and utilized flakes, most made on prismatic blades, have been found there. The Phil Stratton site occupies a bluff above a ford across the meandering Red River, here deeply entrenched within limestone, and may have been an ideal place to intercept game. Gravels of the Red River also supplied tool-stone to Cumberland knappers, who left thousands of flakes.

Cumberland point from the Phil Stratton site.

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