Found a point cache today!! Help with I.D. Please...

[Jon Phillips]

Hello everyone...I have never had a cause to post in this forum before, as I had never found a complete point, but today was just unbelievable. I'm still in shock!

Here is the link to the whole story:

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/t...eal-day-relics-13-projectile-point-cache.html


What I would like to know is....Are these Hillsborough Points?

I found 10 nice ones, and 3 broken tips in a hole while digging a piece of buckshot.















That's a quarter in those shots, if you can't tell....

Thanks alot for any help anyone can give me on these........


Edit: More pics.....

 

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[Jon Phillips]

Right! He's either going to be real fired up.. or ruined for hunting for a while..

Nah!.....It was easy....Only had to dig one hole! I just had to dig it twice! Thank God my dad was there to suggest I check the spot again!!

 

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[GatorBoy]

I'm so happy for you! I'm glad you shared. I know it got me ready to go.

 

[Jon Phillips]

Thanks!

 

[digging440yrs]

If i were you in warm florida i would by a tent and more shovels and live where you dug those up---lol---awesome find man--keep on digging !!!!

 

[kuger]

Can you post it?

....I might.....trust me,it has nothing on yours!!!Great find!!

 

[rock]

Dang I just logged on and saw this. That is truly a great find. I have found 2 in the same spot this yr but not the same type. 1 was a knife and the other was a point but both were made of the same type of stone. That is a find of a lifetime and I am glad you posted it for us to see. Thank you

 

[IlliniGuy]

I hope you don't mind my asking, can you show us the coordinates on the map where you found them? Just kidding!!! However, I do want to know, how many points must be found together for a find to be called a cache?

I would say two or more. The Neralich Cache found at Olive Branch, Illinois only contained two. Also caches do not have to be Points. The Grossmann Cache found near O'Fallin, Illinois contained 70 celts.

 

[Neanderthal]

Damn. Very impressive find.

 

[Americus]

Those are incredible. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Tnmountains]

Congratulations Jon. That looks good up on top. Use a threaded rod with a brass tip. I went to a lighting gallery and got a brass one for a lamp for the tip.Just a hair larger than the rod and it sildes down easy for 4'. You can learn by the sound it makes when tapping things. Good luck.

 

[GatorBoy]

Love that "tink"

 

[WhiteCountyPaleo]

Reminds me of the batwing cache.

 

[justonemore]

Digging for buckshot and you come across those? Why is it some folks who aren't really looking stumble across a find like this.
Congrats! Find of a lifetime!

 

[newnan man]

He's in the Banner and rightly so! Hilly/Newnan/Pasco? A little of everything ther. Super find and thanks!

 

[Twitch]

I would say two or more. The Neralich Cache found at Olive Branch, Illinois only contained two. Also caches do not have to be Points. The Grossmann Cache found near O'Fallin, Illinois contained 70 celts.

I used to live in O'fallon IL....

This is an amazing find. To say it's one in a million understates it's rarity. Amazing. If you're ever interested in just straight up giving them away give me a call : )

Joe

 

[Jon Phillips]

We made it back out to the site today. We probed and dug, and screened a few hours.....In the spot I found the cache, and in the spot where all the flakes were. I don't know if he knapped them where all the flakes were, or if that was the trash pile where he threw the flakes.....I would imagine that you wouldn't want to step on any of those sharp flakes, especially barefoot!

We didn't find any more points....and man! that was hard work....but I kept a few of the larger chunks of materal, and I found a small piece of pottery, and another piece of the 1830's-1840's wine bottle.

My dad spotted a musket flint, and I dug about 23 more pieces of buckshot from buck and ball loads. I think previous relic hunters might have got all the bigger musket balls, and missed the buckshot.

 

[GatorBoy]

That's a real good spot you're on. You certainly did all the right things. That was obviously good ground for a very long period of time. I'm assuming there's a waterway close by..... I would definitely check the banks of that.

 

[chong2]

Awesome find!!!! I would compare those as to the Andices found in Tx. as far as rarity and desired by collectors. That is a VERY valuable find, and as part of a cache increased the value... In that size and condition you may as well hang up your metal detector and make a flipping stick....

 

[NC field hunter]

Dude, what are you? A leprechaun? Nice find! Once again!

 

[Jon Phillips]

Nah....I'm way too tall for a Leprechaun! And they are lucky by nature....I have what is reffered to as "dumb luck"....whole different thing!