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RE: Ancient Digs! + In Situs! - 12/2/2009 1:41:24 PM    Staunton Dan Posts: 2249 Joined: 5/5/2005 From: Batesville, VA Status: offline quote: ORIGINAL: stephengray nice point I found here in Wyoming, by the way, those aren't raisons on the ground, they're rabbit, um, pellets Johnny would bring raisins to his teacher everyday at school and she would eat them in front of the class to show her appreciation. One day he didn't bring his usual offering and the teacher asked why? Johnny replied that his rabbit had died. _____________________________ Just when you think that you have life figured out, someone changes the rules. (in reply to stephengray) Post #: 61

RE: Ancient Digs! + In Situs! - 12/2/2009 2:05:44 PM    redbeardrelics   Posts: 96 Joined: 9/29/2006 Status: offline Hey Chris, Awesome post and artifacts, and I am certainly envious of the shelters / overhangs you and your friends have to dig. The in-situ photo's of yours and the other poster's really get me itching to get out in the fields to do some point hunting. I have previously noticed and admired your in-situ photos published in the on-line in-situ magazine, and was thrilled to see some more. I had never even thought about taking any in-situ photos myself until I saw the on-line in-situ photos this past spring. Every time I have remembered to take my camera with me hunting (which wasn't often) I would not find anything exciting. Sort of like the bad mojo you get by taking too many empty boxes and newspaper with you on a bottle dig I guess LOL. I have been switching priorities back and forth between bottle digging and artifact hunting for the past 35 years, and have been more into the artifact mode for the past year. Most of my artifacts have been personal finds in Maryland (Harford and Queen Anne Counties), except for the ones I found in Mecklenberg County, NC while living there from 1980-87. I have never posted a photo here before, but will give it a try now. Here is a frame of quartz points I found in the 1970's in Harford County, MD (in reply to Staunton Dan) Post #: 62

RE: Ancient Digs! + In Situs! - 12/2/2009 2:12:09 PM    redbeardrelics   Posts: 96 Joined: 9/29/2006 Status: offline Lets try this photo posting thingy again. Attachment (1) (in reply to redbeardrelics) Post #: 63

RE: Ancient Digs! + In Situs! - 12/2/2009 2:16:38 PM    redbeardrelics   Posts: 96 Joined: 9/29/2006 Status: offline Here are some from Mecklenberg County North Carolina, and just south of the border in York County, South Carolina. The lancolate blade is 4 & 3/8" long, and the St. Charles dovetail is probably the nicest of this group. Attachment (1) (in reply to redbeardrelics) Post #: 64

RE: Ancient Digs! + In Situs! - 12/2/2009 5:40:36 PM    lexdigger   Posts: 1767 Joined: 5/31/2005 From: Lexington, Ky. Status: offline Wow! I was wondering if other bottle diggers would have any relics to post? Bent twig knocked it outta the park!!! What a Pendant!!! I love the slate artifacts from Ohio and Indiana! I would LOVE to find a nice banner or BIRD stone someday!!!We just don't find slate down this way very often. It really is amazing that these pieces can last FOREVER in the ground and that we could find them thousands of years later!!! Thanks alot for the compliments Redbeard! I've had alot of pics published in online magazines and in artifact books. It's nice to know that others appreciate them as much as I do! I hear you on the camera! When I first started taking mine it seemed like a jinx. It seemed the same with bottle digging to, at first. After a while I realized that no camera, or anything else for that matter, is going to change the outcome of a hunt or dig! You are meant to find what you find... it IS what it IS! I sure do wish I would have thought of it alot earlier on! I've made it a point with my bottle digging to document as many digs as possible. I had my camera with me on my first dump digs and on my first privy dig! It has definatly NOT been a jinx or a curse!!! The hardest part with arrowhead hunting is to not reach down and snatch it up before you get your camera out!!! LOL (in reply to redbeardrelics) Post #: 65

RE: Ancient Digs! - 12/2/2009 9:44:11 PM    Celtics22   Posts: 52 Joined: 8/23/2008 From: Warren Ma Status: offline Sweet stuff man. _____________________________ get er dug. (in reply to Lordbud) Post #: 66

RE: Ancient Digs! + In Situs! - 12/2/2009 9:45:56 PM    Bent_Twig Posts: 461 Joined: 10/8/2008 From: Northern Ohio Status: offline I love this thread!! Hope the die hard bottle hunters dont mind.                                   Twig. Attachment (1) < Message edited by Bent_Twig -- 12/2/2009 9:47:01 PM > (in reply to RedGinger) Post #: 67

RE: Ancient Digs! + In Situs! - 12/2/2009 9:48:41 PM    Bent_Twig Posts: 461 Joined: 10/8/2008 From: Northern Ohio Status: offline in hand Attachment (1) (in reply to Bent_Twig) Post #: 68

RE: Ancient Digs! + In Situs! - 12/2/2009 9:50:09 PM    Bent_Twig Posts: 461 Joined: 10/8/2008 From: Northern Ohio Status: offline Flint Ridge!! Attachment (1) (in reply to Bent_Twig) Post #: 69

RE: Ancient Digs! + In Situs! - 12/2/2009 9:52:02 PM    Bent_Twig Posts: 461 Joined: 10/8/2008 From: Northern Ohio Status: offline Flint Ridge!! Purple/white. Attachment (1) (in reply to Bent_Twig) Post #: 70

RE: Ancient Digs! + In Situs! - 12/2/2009 9:54:37 PM    Bent_Twig Posts: 461 Joined: 10/8/2008 From: Northern Ohio Status: offline Buck Creek. Attachment (1) (in reply to Bent_Twig) Post #: 71

RE: Ancient Digs! + In Situs! - 12/2/2009 10:00:56 PM    Bent_Twig Posts: 461 Joined: 10/8/2008 From: Northern Ohio Status: offline bottleneck!! Attachment (1) (in reply to Bent_Twig) Post #: 72

RE: Ancient Digs! + In Situs! - 12/2/2009 11:06:43 PM    stephengray   Posts: 713 Joined: 9/23/2009 From: Oklahoma (live in Wyoming though) Status: offline This is one I found in Oklahoma.  I saw the backend and one shoulder sticking out in a plowed field and knew it had to be broke.  The place had just been bulldozed and then plowed.  I reached down to pick it up and my hand pulled off of it.  At that point I got REALLY excited because it is very large for a point from Oklahoma.  I pulled it out and it was perfect!  (The upper right shoulder is not broke, it was made that way.)  It does not show it but the lines are a light purple color.  Very thin and has great torque to the blade.  By the way, it is 5 15/16" inches long.  Made my day for sure. Attachment (1) (in reply to Bent_Twig) Post #: 73

RE: Ancient Digs! + In Situs! - 12/2/2009 11:12:57 PM    stephengray   Posts: 713 Joined: 9/23/2009 From: Oklahoma (live in Wyoming though) Status: offline 4 birdpoints I found all within a week here in Wyoming.  Got lucky again as here if you find 1 whole point for every 3 time you go out you are doing well. agate, petrified wood, agate, ? Attachment (1) (in reply to stephengray) Post #: 74

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RE: Ancient Digs! + In Situs! - 12/3/2009 8:10:10 AM    lexdigger   Posts: 1767 Joined: 5/31/2005 From: Lexington, Ky. Status: offline I LOVE this thread! You guys have some awesome relics!!! Here's a pick for the die hard bottle hunters... artifacts and relics together!!! :) Attachment (1) (in reply to Deleted User) Post #: 76

RE: Ancient Digs! + In Situs! - 12/3/2009 8:58:47 AM    adshepard   Posts: 349 Joined: 8/11/2004 Status: offline Very cool finds! I found my first point just last week in Maine while beach combing.  It's a spear point that is approximately 5" long. The Passamaquoddy ("people who spear fish") are the likely makers of the point.  My quick research indicates that they hunted the seals, porpoises and fish of the area. Alan (in reply to lexdigger) Post #: 77

RE: Ancient Digs! + In Situs! - 12/3/2009 1:13:48 PM    buzzkutt033 Posts: 1387 Joined: 12/17/2007 From: East Penn Township Pennsylvania Status: offline i took a photo of the rock i found down by the Lehigh River. it looks alot like the mortar and pestle rock that was displayed a couple pages back....... Attachment (1) (in reply to adshepard) Post #: 78

RE: Ancient Digs! + In Situs! - 12/3/2009 1:16:23 PM    buzzkutt033 Posts: 1387 Joined: 12/17/2007 From: East Penn Township Pennsylvania Status: offline here's a side view. it's not an exact match, but it's close. anyone have an opinion if this is an artifact or a geofact?? thing weighs about 70 lbs or so............. thanx, jim Attachment (1) < Message edited by buzzkutt033 -- 12/3/2009 1:17:02 PM > (in reply to buzzkutt033) Post #: 79

RE: Ancient Digs! + In Situs! - 12/3/2009 7:49:51 PM    lexdigger   Posts: 1767 Joined: 5/31/2005 From: Lexington, Ky. Status: offline All personal finds from Tobacco Fields and Construction Sites Turkey Tail Bifurcated Kirk Clovis. 10,000 + years old!!! Hopewell Celt Dovetail found in two halves!!! Palmer Tobacco Field Finds! Dovetail!!! Gold Dollar found on an arrowhead hunt! Hardstone Adz Kentucky Knobbed Hardin Display at local artifact club (AFACA) meeting. (in reply to buzzkutt033) Post #: 80

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