Montana surface finds.

[old digger]

[River Rat]

OMG, those are some killer finds!! Is this from one outing or several? I'm embarrassed to show my finds now, nothing like these at all.

[flintdigger]

Fantastic finds !!!

[old digger]

These better finds where found in the last 5 to 6 years. I have a coffee can full of broken points and other artifacts that I have found.

[quito]

Great Stuff!!!

Man, I was hoping those were a one outing assemblage.

Joel

[Jon Stewart]

OUTSTANDING. When you invited me to our family reunion, LOL Love that shafts straightner and the drills.

[wells]

Wow, thanks, nice to see something new and quality ! Real nice. Over the years i've seen very few Montana artifacts. Thanks again.

[The Grim Reaper]

Great looking artifacts and some very beautiful material.

I've got a nice tray of Montana artifacts that I acquired when I put together my states collection.

[11KBP]

Montana surface finds.

Nice looking group of artifacts.
I also like the shaft abrader and iron point, great representatives of the late Plains bison hunters.

11KBP

[coteau]

Very nice representative collection! Good pictures!

I was surprised how large the first gray porcellanite? blade is - wow almost 8 inches! And the corner notched Pelican Lake at over 3 inches!

Very cool iron point with the bend!

[old digger]

Thanks for the comments. The metal trade point was found in a sandy area below a large bluff. I found the top part of a buffalo skull about 100 yards away. The bluff above the site is too high to be a buffalo jump. I cannot hunt on this property beacuse some people had trespassed and poached an elk, a mule deer, and a antelope. It was a good area for finding artifacts. I even found some old pottery pieces. The one "kniferiver colored" point is what we call a "lovell constricted " from the Big Horn basin area east of Cody Wy. The abrader or shaft smoother are not easy to find. I have found two of them. I have one and the other I gave to a friend. old digger

[11KBP]

Thanks for the comments. The abrader or shaft smoother are not easy to find. I have found two of them. I have one and the other I gave to a friend. old digger

An abrader like yours had a mate as they were made in matched pairs.

[old digger]

Yes I know. The one that I gave away was not a match. It was found 50 miles from where the one shown was found, and was quite like the one in your photo. Kind of squarish.

[musky44]

that is some beautiful material!! thank for sharing

[T Witko]

Great artifacts, I've not seem many from Montana. It's nice to be able to compare with what I find here in ND.

[larson1951]

real nice stuff
the points in 3rd and 4th pictures are very similar to the dakota points
it seems on average that the notches are shallower and slightly wider however
the two points on the upper left of the 4th image are nice examples of the Billings type which sometimes are found in the dakotas

[Martingeetars]

Super nice finds , I really like the red one in the 8th picture that looks like a guitar pick! Nice unifacial scraper.

[huntress104]

absolutely beautiful pieces. love the color and the material. congratulations!!