Muddyhandz
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- Jul 1, 2012
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- Detector(s) used
- Fisher's 1266X, 1270X & 1280X
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
I would like to do something special for my thousandth post (this time around) and share the first point I found that got me hooked and also post my best point as well.
About 15 years ago, and after coin hunting for 15 years prior, I made the transition to relic hunting and started to search cultivated fields.
One such field I was driving by on a rainy day and saw someone there walking back and forth.
After watching for a minute it became obvious he was looking for prehistoric artifacts and I went out to greet him with much curiosity.
After telling him I have been detecting the field for a year but did not know what to look for when it came to stone artifacts.
He was guarded about his skill but after seeing my excitement and interest, he pointed to flakings and core pieces which were mostly white Selkirk chert.
He also told me about Knife River flint but I ended up only finding brown beer bottle glass.
After splitting up for 15 minutes, I came back with a big bag full of core pieces, flakings and a few broken scrapers.
He said that I was getting the hang of spotting the right materials even though I was probably picking up his rejects!
Then not long after I spotted this......
He congratulated me on my first arrow point and even though it wasn't older than a thousand years and had been reworked, a small point like that was used to take down bison as only something small could penetrate their tough hides.
I was hooked from there on in!
It would be my only point for that year as I spent most of my time detecting (among several hobbies) but I did add another few hundred pounds of core pieces, flakings, etc. like every newbie who picks up everything. Lol.
The next year I would find two points and then several every year thereafter.
Even though my first point isn't the nicest in my collection, it still gets to be stored in this case.....
Now onto my best point! After sitting in a box for so long, I promised her a full photo shoot! Lots of pictures to come and then the story at the end to give you all a break from the last one.
This find came about a mile up river from my first point, which was along the Red River, between Winnipeg and Selkirk, Manitoba.
It is made out of the highly prized Knife River flint, which originated not far to the S.W. out in Larson Land, Mandan country, North Dakota.
Although KRF is quite common out here, the style of this point is not and even though the experts just simply say "Plains side-notched," it is unlike any that could be attributed to this area.
Here it is......
Some fluting added which is different than most Plains side-notched from here.
Reverse.....
Back to the "spotted" side....
Some magic happening with this point as the blue glass ball hanging from my windowsill somehow reflected onto it!
Then when I put here in this bowl of rocks, rainbows appeared....
I assure you that no photoshop was preformed here with these pictures from my difficult, ancient camera!
Better stop before I post a million pictures. Well, I promised her a good showing after sitting so long in that box!
I owe this find all to a snowboard! I was in an area known as St. Andrews rapids during the spring time when the water levels started to diminish after the spring run-off.
The shore line was full of giant limestone boulders and I didn't see a whole lot other than a few pieces of Blackduck pottery which is everywhere out here.
I spotted a snowboard near a big boulder that must have floated down the river and I planned to get it on the way back.
There wasn't much to see around there and I kept walking further up to a little site I have found stuff at before.
Things weren't looking good on the way there and when I got to the site, nothing but muck! That's the thing about the Red River.
It maybe years before that gravel bed is exposed from the muck again. I headed back with little to show for and remembered to check out the snowboard when I got there.
It had a crack which is why someone threw it in the river, so even that was a bust!
Glanced down at the base of the huge boulder by the snowboard and saw that unmistakable "brown glass" wedged in between the big rocks.
When I picked her up I was baffled that it was whole as it should have been broken among rocks. I still couldn't believe it and hopped up on a boulder and sat there staring at it for awhile.
I was still a smoker back then and broke a smoke open and offered tobacco on the very spot It was found uttering "Meegwetch" to the Great Spirit.
I haven't anything found there again and unfortunately can't get down there anymore because of a bunch of new yuppie houses blocking my access which is all too common nowadays.
Thanks for looking at my post! My best point is probably nothing to those who post museum piece after piece but it means a lot to me to show it to others and owe it to the one who made this so long ago.
It's creation and story is still a mystery.
Happy hunting!
Dave.
About 15 years ago, and after coin hunting for 15 years prior, I made the transition to relic hunting and started to search cultivated fields.
One such field I was driving by on a rainy day and saw someone there walking back and forth.
After watching for a minute it became obvious he was looking for prehistoric artifacts and I went out to greet him with much curiosity.
After telling him I have been detecting the field for a year but did not know what to look for when it came to stone artifacts.
He was guarded about his skill but after seeing my excitement and interest, he pointed to flakings and core pieces which were mostly white Selkirk chert.
He also told me about Knife River flint but I ended up only finding brown beer bottle glass.
After splitting up for 15 minutes, I came back with a big bag full of core pieces, flakings and a few broken scrapers.
He said that I was getting the hang of spotting the right materials even though I was probably picking up his rejects!
Then not long after I spotted this......
He congratulated me on my first arrow point and even though it wasn't older than a thousand years and had been reworked, a small point like that was used to take down bison as only something small could penetrate their tough hides.
I was hooked from there on in!
It would be my only point for that year as I spent most of my time detecting (among several hobbies) but I did add another few hundred pounds of core pieces, flakings, etc. like every newbie who picks up everything. Lol.
The next year I would find two points and then several every year thereafter.
Even though my first point isn't the nicest in my collection, it still gets to be stored in this case.....
Now onto my best point! After sitting in a box for so long, I promised her a full photo shoot! Lots of pictures to come and then the story at the end to give you all a break from the last one.
This find came about a mile up river from my first point, which was along the Red River, between Winnipeg and Selkirk, Manitoba.
It is made out of the highly prized Knife River flint, which originated not far to the S.W. out in Larson Land, Mandan country, North Dakota.
Although KRF is quite common out here, the style of this point is not and even though the experts just simply say "Plains side-notched," it is unlike any that could be attributed to this area.
Here it is......
Some fluting added which is different than most Plains side-notched from here.
Reverse.....
Back to the "spotted" side....
Some magic happening with this point as the blue glass ball hanging from my windowsill somehow reflected onto it!
Then when I put here in this bowl of rocks, rainbows appeared....
I assure you that no photoshop was preformed here with these pictures from my difficult, ancient camera!
Better stop before I post a million pictures. Well, I promised her a good showing after sitting so long in that box!
I owe this find all to a snowboard! I was in an area known as St. Andrews rapids during the spring time when the water levels started to diminish after the spring run-off.
The shore line was full of giant limestone boulders and I didn't see a whole lot other than a few pieces of Blackduck pottery which is everywhere out here.
I spotted a snowboard near a big boulder that must have floated down the river and I planned to get it on the way back.
There wasn't much to see around there and I kept walking further up to a little site I have found stuff at before.
Things weren't looking good on the way there and when I got to the site, nothing but muck! That's the thing about the Red River.
It maybe years before that gravel bed is exposed from the muck again. I headed back with little to show for and remembered to check out the snowboard when I got there.
It had a crack which is why someone threw it in the river, so even that was a bust!
Glanced down at the base of the huge boulder by the snowboard and saw that unmistakable "brown glass" wedged in between the big rocks.
When I picked her up I was baffled that it was whole as it should have been broken among rocks. I still couldn't believe it and hopped up on a boulder and sat there staring at it for awhile.
I was still a smoker back then and broke a smoke open and offered tobacco on the very spot It was found uttering "Meegwetch" to the Great Spirit.
I haven't anything found there again and unfortunately can't get down there anymore because of a bunch of new yuppie houses blocking my access which is all too common nowadays.
Thanks for looking at my post! My best point is probably nothing to those who post museum piece after piece but it means a lot to me to show it to others and owe it to the one who made this so long ago.
It's creation and story is still a mystery.
Happy hunting!
Dave.
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