I went back to the mountains and rivers, and tried again to get what I missed the other day. I'm going to have to dig soon. I used the Deus and it started sucking small items out of the ground. This time I dug the smaller bits of aluminum as there are a number of smaller items in this one particular field. I ran into a bunch of fire cracked rocks, and at 6" there was still charcoal staining in the soil!
The site overlooks the river on a small flat bluff! Perfect for seeing who's coming up river!
First up was a round ball! Indian and made of lead! Then I started picking up numerous flakes. I think its Onondaga chert, if that's how its spelled. The rocks around are Devonian in age and full of fossils. Unfortunately, not the expensive kind.
Then I spied this nice grinder on top of the ground. The one side is totally flat!
Not far behind it was a nice net sinker, I think this is the one, as I found two almost identical and put them together in the sorting box before thinking.
The flakes are almost homogeneous in nature, they are almost all the same material.
I then circled back and snagged a cuff Rev War period button at about 8" with the Deus.
It's sitting next to a rather fancy flake.
A few feet away was this piece of 18th century Chinese export porcelain.
I moved a little closer to the little road, now, I haven't covered much ground at all, but I have tried to cover it well.
I got a decent sort of signal and got a tinkle cone. There were more signals and a lot of charcoal in the hole so kept going and it was unreal!
Those are two more Indian tinkle cones worn as ornaments and an Indian made gunflint out of the same material the flakes are made of.
At this point I dug some more and got a sweet sounding signal so dug out a pretty good amount of dirt and saw a glint of silver! A holed pendant in silver. Probably used to be a reale or something, and after a little more digging a 1/2 reale cob! It's pretty bad, but do I really care! No! As I'm going through the dirt, I see a glint of reddish small something. Indian trade beads, and by the time I got done going through the dirt found the rest of these beads and two small pistol balls or buck shot.
The farmer was starting to come my direction on his tractor so I decided to fill the hole (field not planted but by today it is). Unfortunately, I had found no arrowheads at all! Some days you don't.
So I put the detector up and concentrated on looking for points. No luck in that area, even with all the flakes.
I drove about 100' down the dirt road, and got out and spied some fire burned rocks. After looking around a bit I did pull out a couple points. They were HARD to spot!
On the way out I was driving slower than a turtle in January looking for more fire cracked rocks (you find them, you find arrowheads most of the time), anyway, I'm looking out the window and glance farther away from the truck and see an odd shaped rock in the field. The natural shale rocks are simply not shaped like this.
So I stopped and got out and got over to it (totally mud covered) and thought I had found a large pestle. Uh, re think that.
I started looking at it closer and got the shock of a lifetime. The rock is 13" x 3" x 2" and is quite regular in shape. Both ends were rounded, like the top of an old fashioned tombstone.
I'm thinking WHAT?
I even sent a couple uncleaned pics to some buddies to make sure I simply wasn't losing my mind. They think I've lost my mind, but they all agree on some of the scratchings on the rocks.
The rock has significant plow hits to it. There are fossils inside, which hasn't helped much in my determining Indian made inscriptions from fossil fragments.
I see a figure of a person, what looks like a fish, numerous dots, a leaf shaped thing with hash marks inside it, either a cross, knife or sword, three "V"'s maybe teepees
, and the one face of the rock the plow has destroyed. I used some water soluble tan paint on the lines I think are something. It would have been better had not the one side been destroyed by the plow, so it's not possible to see what might have been there. There is also a face there that is very faint I forgot to highlight. About 1/2" in diameter. I didn't do too good a job with the tan paint. But if I didn't highlight them, someone one day might just throw the piece out!
I suppose this piece is a first, and a last for me. I've been looking for artifacts since I was about 6!
I'll come down off the ceiling soon. Or not.
The silvers! ARRGGGH! Here they are!
I'll try to get a pic of the other little face too.
There are actually circles around each eye, but I have to find my little brush. You might be able to see them without a highlight however.
The site overlooks the river on a small flat bluff! Perfect for seeing who's coming up river!
First up was a round ball! Indian and made of lead! Then I started picking up numerous flakes. I think its Onondaga chert, if that's how its spelled. The rocks around are Devonian in age and full of fossils. Unfortunately, not the expensive kind.
Then I spied this nice grinder on top of the ground. The one side is totally flat!
Not far behind it was a nice net sinker, I think this is the one, as I found two almost identical and put them together in the sorting box before thinking.
The flakes are almost homogeneous in nature, they are almost all the same material.
I then circled back and snagged a cuff Rev War period button at about 8" with the Deus.
It's sitting next to a rather fancy flake.A few feet away was this piece of 18th century Chinese export porcelain.
I moved a little closer to the little road, now, I haven't covered much ground at all, but I have tried to cover it well.
I got a decent sort of signal and got a tinkle cone. There were more signals and a lot of charcoal in the hole so kept going and it was unreal!
Those are two more Indian tinkle cones worn as ornaments and an Indian made gunflint out of the same material the flakes are made of.At this point I dug some more and got a sweet sounding signal so dug out a pretty good amount of dirt and saw a glint of silver! A holed pendant in silver. Probably used to be a reale or something, and after a little more digging a 1/2 reale cob! It's pretty bad, but do I really care! No! As I'm going through the dirt, I see a glint of reddish small something. Indian trade beads, and by the time I got done going through the dirt found the rest of these beads and two small pistol balls or buck shot.
The farmer was starting to come my direction on his tractor so I decided to fill the hole (field not planted but by today it is). Unfortunately, I had found no arrowheads at all! Some days you don't.
So I put the detector up and concentrated on looking for points. No luck in that area, even with all the flakes.
I drove about 100' down the dirt road, and got out and spied some fire burned rocks. After looking around a bit I did pull out a couple points. They were HARD to spot!
On the way out I was driving slower than a turtle in January looking for more fire cracked rocks (you find them, you find arrowheads most of the time), anyway, I'm looking out the window and glance farther away from the truck and see an odd shaped rock in the field. The natural shale rocks are simply not shaped like this.
So I stopped and got out and got over to it (totally mud covered) and thought I had found a large pestle. Uh, re think that.
I started looking at it closer and got the shock of a lifetime. The rock is 13" x 3" x 2" and is quite regular in shape. Both ends were rounded, like the top of an old fashioned tombstone.
I'm thinking WHAT?
I even sent a couple uncleaned pics to some buddies to make sure I simply wasn't losing my mind. They think I've lost my mind, but they all agree on some of the scratchings on the rocks.
The rock has significant plow hits to it. There are fossils inside, which hasn't helped much in my determining Indian made inscriptions from fossil fragments.
I see a figure of a person, what looks like a fish, numerous dots, a leaf shaped thing with hash marks inside it, either a cross, knife or sword, three "V"'s maybe teepees
, and the one face of the rock the plow has destroyed. I used some water soluble tan paint on the lines I think are something. It would have been better had not the one side been destroyed by the plow, so it's not possible to see what might have been there. There is also a face there that is very faint I forgot to highlight. About 1/2" in diameter. I didn't do too good a job with the tan paint. But if I didn't highlight them, someone one day might just throw the piece out!I suppose this piece is a first, and a last for me. I've been looking for artifacts since I was about 6!
I'll come down off the ceiling soon. Or not.
The silvers! ARRGGGH! Here they are!
I'll try to get a pic of the other little face too.
There are actually circles around each eye, but I have to find my little brush. You might be able to see them without a highlight however.
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