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