Ancient Digs! + In Situs!

[Grampy Green Jeans]

Cool, thanx 4 the response.
Will have to go back and look around. Had a friend w/me that day and he was impatient. Was different looking for artifacts compared 2 bottles... change of pace.
I have known about those miidens since I was a kid. I lived on t the property for couple years (where they r located). My father said he had found a clay pipe there years ago. I have many times looked around the site and never really c much.
Though my eye is getting more trained as 2 what 2 look 4!

 

[lexdigger]

That's a big part of artifact hunting. The more you search, the more you will focus in on the little things you may have never noticed before. Being familiar with artifacts and the stones they're made of helps. It sounds like the site warrants a little scratching around! It's also a little arrowhead hunters secret to go right after a Big rain. The erosion washes out new rocks to look at each time you go. Good Luck!

 

[CALDIGR2]

I scored this smokin' KILLER Steatite charmstone yesterday afternoon at a local mound site that I have not walked in over 3 years. On a whim, I stopped as I drove by and went to the only recently raked section and started slowly walking. Nothing but a few broken obsidian points that were not picked up and some common drilled clamshell beads, until this thing came into my view. It was poking from the soil, so, thinking it was broken, I kicked it with my boot. WHOA!! Not broken. These photos show both sides after a washing and polish with a soft cloth.

 

[Digswithstick]

Great find ,i have also heard those refered too as plummets .

 

[CALDIGR2]

Charmstones were hung over favorite fishing spots and often used as funerary objects. The mound where it came from was leveled in the 1960s for ag use. Human remains, along with many thousands of artifacts associated with hundreds of years of human occupation, were scattered for over a half mile. The site has produced hundreds of points, a few pestles and mortars, and thousands of shell beads. A no-disc policy is in effect nowadays, due to the proximity of burials to the surface. Complete skeletons sit barely 2' under the loam, so the field can only be lightly tilled.

 

[Digswithstick]

Akron marbles ,i collect marbles too ,beautiful point do not know how i missed it ! Caldigr saw your post on AACA ,very interesting about the charmstones and that lake ,i had not heard of them before .Here are some i found with friend walking fields 2 evenings .

 

[Digswithstick]

In the hand !We don't find many this big,got to west for them

 

[Digswithstick]

This looks like a chip but it is not ,it is known as a burin <(sp?) spokeshave ,for shaving bark when making arrows.

 

[Digswithstick]

Thickness

,who was deleted user ?

 

[spuere66]

Digs, way to go buddy. I need that lucky rabbits foot you carry around! Honestly, that is an impressive find and I hope we have many more over the years. I can't believe I leave 20 minutes early and you find something like that! Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Congrats