New From Tillys Hill 10 - 31 - 14

[southfork]

New From Tilly's Hill 10 - 31 - 14

Rain is on the way so my Artifact hunting will slow down and give you guys a rest from my posts lol . If I can get the photos to load these are my finds from the last two trips to Tilly's . This camp has blessed me with a frame full this week .

 

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[rock]

Bead? There must be a lot of quartz crystal where you live at. I find a little bit but nothing like you find. Great hunt man

 

[yakker]

Really nice assortment of things- and I especially like the point w/ bead above and coin below! (I never know 'names' especially in regions I don't live in!) Funny how dig/sifters hate the rain- and the rest of us pray for it! HH! Yakker

 

[southfork]

Bead? There must be a lot of quartz crystal where you live at. I find a little bit but nothing like you find. Great hunt man

rock its a stone bead drilled from both sides and yes there's quartz everywhere . Quartz crystal points are rare to find I found four or five in 35 or so years of hunting this area . And now have over 30 from Tilly's Hill camp over the last couple of seasons . Local collectors said they were one in a thousand .

 

[southfork]

Really nice assortment of things- and I especially like the point w/ bead above and coin below! (I never know 'names' especially in regions I don't live in!) Funny how dig/sifters hate the rain- and the rest of us pray for it! HH! Yakker

Thanks that's a Rose Spring made of chalcedony two inches long the type is considered to be one of the first arrow point type in the great basin .

 

[unclemac]

you dang right quartz and especially the crystal ones you find are rare out left. I t makes me think that your site was very personal, tight knit group who found a source and used it either together...or perhaps these points were made by an individual. or even...the material source site is real close by.....

 

[Americus]

Those are nice! You have a great site to hunt.

 

[rock]

rock its a stone bead drilled from both sides and yes there's quartz everywhere . Quartz crystal points are rare to find I found four or five in 35 or so years of hunting this area . And now have over 30 from Tilly's Hill camp over the last couple of seasons . Local collectors said they were one in a thousand .

So do you believe their are 30,000 points for you to find then? You will be digging for many years if those odds are correct. Every single one I have found have been broken. Congrats on finding whole ones.

 

[unclemac]

your digging these right? how deep and how large an area when you call it "Tilly's hill"? is this a ridge top...view all around etc?

 

[monsterrack]

Super finds and this had to be a long time camp site for different time periods

 

[fyrffytr1]

I never get tired of looking at yours and everyone else's finds. Keep finding and posting them!

 

[southfork]

your digging these right? how deep and how large an area when you call it "Tilly's hill"? is this a ridge top...view all around etc?

Its just a knoll in a large camp with meadows and ridges all the way around like a small hidden valley . Digging and screening a small area at a time I back fill each time and never leave an open hole . we rehab with grass and wildflowers .

 

[southfork]

So do you believe their are 30,000 points for you to find then? You will be digging for many years if those odds are correct. Every single one I have found have been broken. Congrats on finding whole ones.

What I think is if they only lost one point a year for the last ten thousand or so years on this camp there's still a few waiting for me . then you can multiply that by the number of people that may have lived here year round .

 

[monsterrack]

I bet the hills and all the ground around your site will produce artifacts and not just on top of the high spots. The stuff in the low spots will be deeper. Great finds and keep on posting

 

[unclemac]

Its just a knoll in a large camp with meadows and ridges all the way around like a small hidden valley . Digging and screening a small area at a time I back fill each time and never leave an open hole . we rehab with grass and wildflowers .

the reason i ask is that i am familiar with ridges and hill tops in Nevada where the local Indians actually buried points as offerings of some sort and was wondering if you thought this may be the same sort of thing going on at your site. Interesting to me was that the people on the reservation living today were aware of it too...and still pretty protective of anyone messing around up there.

 

[pickaway]

Killer, thanks for sharing!!!