Dalton From The Clovis Site

[Buckhunter]

Large Dalton Drill Or Exhausted Knife. Found On the same site as the Clovis. This morning went back and found this just down the slope from a plowed up burial mound on top of the ridge. I am pretty sure it is a burial mound because there are many limestone slabs plowed out of the hump in the field. There are burial mounds on top of most the the high ridges and hills in this area, but most of them are wooded or leveled.

 

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[jamey]

nice artifact,dont think i would hunt around there though. jamey

 

[Buckhunter]

I see no harm in picking up points out of a corn field, no matter where they are laying. Leaving them for the farmers disk to destroy makes no sense to me.

 

[Treefrog]

I agree, if they are laying around might as well save them from destruction!!

 

[jamey]

that is a very good point to save them,the mounds should of never been plowed up anyway.im not saying anything bad about you just dont want to see anything bad happen to you.ancesters of the mound builders know what comes from grave sites,no matter where you found them, it just makes you look like a archie.i really like your posts you have some nice points,this is not an attack on you.i just think you could ruin your collection by filling it up with things that have come from graves, even if it wasnt you who dug up the dead.
jamey

 

[Buckhunter]

Im no Archeologist, but im pretty sure the Dalton culture didnt use mounds for grave goods.

 

[jamey]

yea i know,but you might find something from the mounds in that spot.heard of some creepy things happen to people who find things meant to be left buried.
jamey

 

[Buckhunter]

When I first started hunting it was legal to dig graves and mounds sites and shelters. The only creepy thing that ever happened to me was in a house just up the road from Daniel Boone's house that was built in 1839, I heard children laughing when there as no one there. But I kept on working!!!

 

[jamey]

i would have been out of there. jamey

 

[Buckhunter]

I aint scared easy pilgrim, besides I think Greg Perino made a pretty good living digging mounds back in the day!

 

[joshuaream]

I'm glad you were there to rescue the piece from the plow... Isn't that notch/indent pretty big for a Dalton? I wonder if it isn't some later archaic type? Any grinding along the edges?

Neat piece.

Joshua