Indian Relics

[Drakeshooter]

I’ve found one my entire life and that was playing in a creek on a gravel bank. Looked down and there it was, will never forget it. Beautiful point red and black. My 8th grade science teacher, RIP, an amateur archaeologist, took it from me to have some of his friends look at it and I never got it back. Anyway, one of my buddies has a hella collection and he told me I’m not looking down enough, lol.

 

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I’ve found one my entire life and that was playing in a creek on a gravel bank. Looked down and there it was, will never forget it. Beautiful point red and black. My 8th grade science teacher, RIP, an amateur archaeologist, took it from me to have some of his friends look at it and I never got it back. Anyway, one of my buddies has a hella collection and he told me I’m not looking down enough, lol.

You live in a helluva area for points. So much water, so many rivers, and so much history. Points literally all over down that way

 

[Drakeshooter]

You live in a helluva area for points. So much water, so many rivers, and so much history. Points literally all over down that way

Yeah I live along the river that Backusburg Mounds are located on as you know. I had a beautiful white and gray something when I was a kid given to be by my cousins who found it breaking new baccer ground. We called it a spearhead, it was about 6” long and 2” wide, but who knows what it was, maybe a knife? I’ve seen some extensive collections.

 

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[aaronc]

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Yes Sir boah, mighty fine

 

[aaronc]

Some scrap from a quick hunt this evening. Lost daylight or I'da found some more. 75% of it comes from these little shallow drains that roll off the grassy hill into the creek. I hadn't been finding much here the last few times I went, but after the floods this is the most I've ever found in a single hunt there. Also my biggest chunk of flint. Found a light brown stone that @redlined eye-deed as a type of chert. I didn;t know what it was but looked like a workable stone and feels "softer" in the hand. Also found a couple of pieces of red, I don't find a whole lot of that either.

 

[Dark Cloud]

Just from watching a few videos,that second pic looks like a campfire ,the rocks look like they’ve been fired.I’ve never found an artifact,my whole life ,but watch a lot of videos.

 

[aaronc]

Went back to my little hunting grounds early this evening in some better light. Found another pile of scrap on the mud bank. Eventually made my way into the creek checking out gravel bars etc.. Found several larger pieces of flint I pitched back in,...and then....something looked too good to just be mother nature. A quick text to a resident expert came back as positive for a tool, his educated guess was an awl. Pretty happy with it. Symmetrical, sharp, no breaks of any kind, point intact. My points are hard earned here, I'll take it. I got rained out soon after.

 

[aaronc]

By far this is the most material in this little area I've found in the few years I've been lookin.

 

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Aaron, you're doing good. There's some good stuff in that creek and on those banks, just a matter of time before you find it

 

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Dug out a few more cases today, enjoy. Yes, that is an antler flaking tool right above the pinetree drill

 

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Drilled necklace piece and Archaic side notch from the same hunt a couple of years ago

 

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Frame of mostly pinetrees and Kirk's

 

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More finds from the last several years

 

[Little FR]

I’ve found some over years. I just give ‘em away, don’t mean a thing to me.

I have friends plum eat up with it.

 

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This has a lot of sentimental value and quite a story behind it. My dad worked out of town from the time I was 13 until after I had married and moved out. He would go with me arrowhead hunting when he was home, not because he cared at all about them but because he knew I did. I found plenty of pottery fragments and had always wanted some pre-Columbian pottery but because of the changes to collecting laws, I knew finding an intact piece myself would be nearly impossible. Fast forward 30 some odd years later and a longtime collector's estate came up for online auction during the height of the pandemic; at the same time my father lay in the hospital, organs failing and his time getting small. He passed about 2 that afternoon and on the way home I vowed to get that pot for him and display it next to the points we had found together. Bidding closed that night and after several glasses of Woodford I texted Dad's cell telling him I got that pot and my intentions even though he was already gone and wouldn't get that text. So thats how this came to be.

Caddo water bottle, SW Arkansas, around 1500 years old.

 

[Dark Cloud]

Cleggs adventures is an interesting utube I watch .The guy sifts and hunts artifacts on the Ohio river,he’s acts like a nut sometime ,but explains a lot and identifies what he finds.

 

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Cleggs adventures is an interesting utube I watch .The guy sifts and hunts artifacts on the Ohio river,he’s acts like a nut sometime ,but explains a lot and identifies what he finds.

I like watching him, I wish we could sift on the river here like he does. I can't remember, but I think he's in W Va.

 

[aaronc]

Cleggs adventures is an interesting utube I watch .The guy sifts and hunts artifacts on the Ohio river,he’s acts like a nut sometime ,but explains a lot and identifies what he finds.

Yes Sir I watch him some too. He is a nut but he's good natured, informative and finds stuff. He's certainly passionate about what he's doin.

 

[aaronc]

@redlined incredible stuff