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Here are some photos of two frames of artifacts I found in the late 1970's, while growing up in southern Harford County, Maryland. Most of these came from several sites on the hills overlooking Bynum's Run, which flows into the Bush River, and eventually the Chesapeake Bay. As you can see white quartz is the dominant lithic, and finding something that was not quartz was quite a treat.
Several of these points turned up when I was not looking for them. The first point I ever found was the white quartz bifurcate, which was setting on top a mound of dirt from an overturned tree in the woods. I sat down there to get a good shot at a squirrel, and nearly sat on it. The brown quartzite, tip missing, Bare Island point I am holding, popped up out of the dirt when I was digging too deeply in an 1890's era bottle dump in the middle of the woods. The little red Palmer point I am holding was pushed up by the root of an ancient oak tree that I stood behind to take a leak. it pays to look down while you leak lol. The large chert stemmed point I am holding was also a fortunate find. The neighborhood boys and I would spend most of our summer nights camping out in the woods and along the creeks when we could. We had one camping spot that was close to a natural spring, and at night we would sneak into one of the local farm ponds to fish, and cook the bass and yellow perch over our camp fires. For some reason we decided to dig a small holding pond for our fresh caught fish, right where the spring flowed forth from the ground. It was a lousy idea, as the spring water was far colder than the pond water, and every healthy fish we put in there at night was dead by the morning. Anyway, while my buddies were shoveling mud and rocks from the spring onto our little one foot high dam, I was patting down the mud to make a water tight dam. They had no idea what to think of me as I started shouting "It's mine. it's mine. it's mine, I found it. it's mine", and showed them this long arrowhead that had surfaced from that spot. That spot is probably still there, and really should be investigated again!
Several of these points turned up when I was not looking for them. The first point I ever found was the white quartz bifurcate, which was setting on top a mound of dirt from an overturned tree in the woods. I sat down there to get a good shot at a squirrel, and nearly sat on it. The brown quartzite, tip missing, Bare Island point I am holding, popped up out of the dirt when I was digging too deeply in an 1890's era bottle dump in the middle of the woods. The little red Palmer point I am holding was pushed up by the root of an ancient oak tree that I stood behind to take a leak. it pays to look down while you leak lol. The large chert stemmed point I am holding was also a fortunate find. The neighborhood boys and I would spend most of our summer nights camping out in the woods and along the creeks when we could. We had one camping spot that was close to a natural spring, and at night we would sneak into one of the local farm ponds to fish, and cook the bass and yellow perch over our camp fires. For some reason we decided to dig a small holding pond for our fresh caught fish, right where the spring flowed forth from the ground. It was a lousy idea, as the spring water was far colder than the pond water, and every healthy fish we put in there at night was dead by the morning. Anyway, while my buddies were shoveling mud and rocks from the spring onto our little one foot high dam, I was patting down the mud to make a water tight dam. They had no idea what to think of me as I started shouting "It's mine. it's mine. it's mine, I found it. it's mine", and showed them this long arrowhead that had surfaced from that spot. That spot is probably still there, and really should be investigated again!
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