Ancient Digs! + In Situs!

[Bent_Twig]

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[lexdigger]

I do agree, to a point, about leaving undisturbed sites alone. However, I do dig out rock shelters when I can get permission. For the most part, they have all been dug in before. Alot of times the people who dug there didn't dig deep enough and missed alot of stuff in the toss. 99 % of my collection is surface finds that were brought out by heavy equipment or errosion.
Where I tend to disagree I guess, is in the case of digging privys. While I have found bottles brought out by equipment, the majority of my bottle collection has come out of undisturbed ground. If laws were passed to stop people from digging artifacts on private property, I would fear loosing my bottle digging privledge more so than digging arrowheads! Like I said, I almost Always have to dig for bottles but usually will find arrowheads laying on the surface.

 

[lexdigger]

Thanks Ohio Rob. The point you're asking about was a Palmer. I posted a pic of it on page FOUR of this thread. I also posted several more of it on page FIVE. I don't have quite the display area that some of these guys do! Most of my stuff is tucked away in frames or drawers. I will see if I can find some pics of frames from my personal collection. Everything I've posted in this thread is personal finds with the exception of a few that were found by friends that I took hunting with me.

 

[Ohio Rob]

When I made my first post I had not noticed all the other pages. I looked through them afterwards. I really like the camera idea. It gives other people a sense of what is like. I have a decent amount of arrowheads, but my family (Dad, Uncles and Grandparents) have an unbelievable collection (all surface finds -we do not buy or sell). In the 1973 they won the Ohio Archeological Society best of show, but no one has seen the stuff since the late 80's. I'll post a few pictures in the next couple of days. Heres a couple far shots of one of the walls at my dads

 

[Ohio Rob]

I'll post a few closer shots later.

 

[ancientdigger69]

hey rob, is your dad looking to adopt?? holy smokes man!!! now that is one awesome collection.

i REALLY like the idea of the small riker mounts inside of a bigger frame.

 

[bostaurus]

Amazing. Thanks for posting that. I will have to show it to my son.
He has a handful that he found when we lived in Texas..I think all are broken. It was such a thrill for him to find them.
I was teaching a basic Archeology class at our homeschool co-op. I was explaining out surveying a site etc. I took them to the church overflow parking lot. It was just a field. The grass was worn away in places due to car tires and dry weather. In our area of Texas,I told them, they should look for foundations, trash( bottles, metal, etc) and earlier things like arrowheads...but, of course, they would not find any of that in the parking lot. My son then held up a rock and said, " This looks just like an arrowhead"....He found one in the parking lot! Talk about energizing a class of kids. They spent the next 20 minutes scouring the parking lot and kid find another. That spurred the kids' imagination for the rest of the semester and maybe they are still looking when they are out for walks.

 

[RedGinger]

That's a fun story, bostaurus. I guess it kind of proved your "point" when the kids found the arrowheads.