crankyolman22
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- Nov 20, 2008
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- 9
- Detector(s) used
- Fisher F2, pro pointer, F-point
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
I am getting ready to move again and while packing came across this. Technically I found it 30 or so years ago but haven't seen it in years so I figured this would count as a today's find.
Now for the long story I have been wanting to tell you guys since I discovered treasurenet.
I grew up in rural Oklahoma at the northern edge of Seminole County. Growing up we hunted and fished a lot along the river bank of the North Canadian river. One day I was hunting, and by hunting I mean taking a nice long walk but rarely actually shooting anything. My normal hunting route took me along the edge of a tall cliff along the river. I dropped down to the river bank and past some shallow caves in the cliff face. Normally I would walk along the top of the cliff but this time was different. I walked past some sandstone boulders roughly the size of a small house and at a huge oak tree followed a path up and out of the riverbank. At the tree there was a small patch of disturbed ground like a micro landslide and sitting on top was a very dirty rock that looked to me like a spear point but I actually didn't believe it was. I picked up the rock, put it in my back pocket and kept on hunting.
When I got home I washed it off and discovered that it was a flint knife about 6 1/2 inches long. Although my brothers and sister and friends were quite good at finding arrow heads, I had never before nor since found a projectile point of any kind. My friend who is an avid projectile point hunter has always been jealous of this find because he has never found a whole knife.
I haven't been back there in 20 years and quite frankly don't ever plan on going back. My friend the projectile point hunter has never searched there either, even though I did tell him where it was found. So if anybody is ever in the area It might be worth checking out.
If you are interested here are the directions to get there. From Interstate 40 Take the mile marker 200 exit (HWY 99). Go South towards Seminole. At the first road you come to turn Left (East), Google tells me this road is now called EW 113 RD. Follow that road until you cant go forward anymore (about 4 Mi) then turn left on NE 360 RD. Follow that until you cant go any more (about 1 Mi) and turn right on EW 112 RD. follow that road until you cant go anymore and there should be a big pond on the S side of the road. From space it looks like just past the pond is what looks like a chicken farm. On the north side of the road from the pond is a creek. If you follow this creek to the river and turn right you will see the cliff. walk along the top of the cliff until it ends and you are there.
The land used to be owned by an antique farmer named Jim Bray (not sure about the spelling) who told me he was given a square mile of land for graduating high school. If you go back up the road to where Google shows a driveway and some sort of big orange thing, it seems like I remember something about a train caboose, This is where his house and another very old falling down house was. This might be a good place to metal detect. I doubt it has ever been detected.
Now for the long story I have been wanting to tell you guys since I discovered treasurenet.
I grew up in rural Oklahoma at the northern edge of Seminole County. Growing up we hunted and fished a lot along the river bank of the North Canadian river. One day I was hunting, and by hunting I mean taking a nice long walk but rarely actually shooting anything. My normal hunting route took me along the edge of a tall cliff along the river. I dropped down to the river bank and past some shallow caves in the cliff face. Normally I would walk along the top of the cliff but this time was different. I walked past some sandstone boulders roughly the size of a small house and at a huge oak tree followed a path up and out of the riverbank. At the tree there was a small patch of disturbed ground like a micro landslide and sitting on top was a very dirty rock that looked to me like a spear point but I actually didn't believe it was. I picked up the rock, put it in my back pocket and kept on hunting.
When I got home I washed it off and discovered that it was a flint knife about 6 1/2 inches long. Although my brothers and sister and friends were quite good at finding arrow heads, I had never before nor since found a projectile point of any kind. My friend who is an avid projectile point hunter has always been jealous of this find because he has never found a whole knife.
I haven't been back there in 20 years and quite frankly don't ever plan on going back. My friend the projectile point hunter has never searched there either, even though I did tell him where it was found. So if anybody is ever in the area It might be worth checking out.
If you are interested here are the directions to get there. From Interstate 40 Take the mile marker 200 exit (HWY 99). Go South towards Seminole. At the first road you come to turn Left (East), Google tells me this road is now called EW 113 RD. Follow that road until you cant go forward anymore (about 4 Mi) then turn left on NE 360 RD. Follow that until you cant go any more (about 1 Mi) and turn right on EW 112 RD. follow that road until you cant go anymore and there should be a big pond on the S side of the road. From space it looks like just past the pond is what looks like a chicken farm. On the north side of the road from the pond is a creek. If you follow this creek to the river and turn right you will see the cliff. walk along the top of the cliff until it ends and you are there.
The land used to be owned by an antique farmer named Jim Bray (not sure about the spelling) who told me he was given a square mile of land for graduating high school. If you go back up the road to where Google shows a driveway and some sort of big orange thing, it seems like I remember something about a train caboose, This is where his house and another very old falling down house was. This might be a good place to metal detect. I doubt it has ever been detected.
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