The Best Find Of My Life

[monsterrack]

Ok I'm still pumped up so I hope I don't make mistakes on this post. I went back to my poverty point site because the farmer told me he had burned and disk the field and I could do what ever I wanted to in his fields. So I got my shovel, bucket and screen and hit it at dawn. I have been finding things on one little rise, so that's where I dug at. First thing I found I didn't know what it was till I washed it off. I think it is a pottery game piece that did not get finished. You can see that it is concave on both sides and they ground on the edges trying to make it round. Then I found some other items I was getting tired by now I was only going 1ft to 1 1/2ft deep but I had done dug a 6x6 area and sifted it all. Then I found this. It's just a crinoid stem fossil, but I have never seen one of this color in this area, most are just brown chert. This gave me a little more juice to hunt some more, I was ready to stop and I thought just one more scoop, and then this showed up on the screen. I thought I was going to faint and wet my pants at the same time. This has been my Holy grail, my number 1 on my bucket list, I could not get my breath. I was in shock for 15 min. I still can't get over it and may not for a long time. Here are some pics of it cleaned. I have only seen ones like this one in a museum. I am still in shock.

 

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[Goldiver]

Congratulations! Awesome find, I would love to have one of those.

Steve

 

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[lookindown]

Those came as toys in boxes of Cracker Jack in the 40s and 50s...just kidding, amazing effigy bead...congrats.

 

[Theakiki]

Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's goods!
Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's goods!!
Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's goods!!!

 

[Tnmountains]

Monsterrack congratulations on your spectacular find. The members voted it up pretty fast. With out googling can you give the time frame for the poverty point artifact? Treasure comes in all sizes and yours is truly Banner worthy. Well done sir!
HH
TnMtns

 

[monsterrack]

Monsterrack congratulations on your spectacular find. The members voted it up pretty fast. With out googling can you give the time frame for the poverty point artifact? Treasure comes in all sizes and yours is truly Banner worthy. Well done sir!
HH
TnMtns

Thanks from what I know of the poverty point culture time dates 1400 BC to 1800 BC. The site in Poverty Point La. was the largest earth work in the western hemisphere at it's time and a very large commercial and government center of the day. They did not make a lot of wooden items, stone from all over was brought in, they made a lot of stone bowls, ear spools, boat stones, beads and other stone ornaments. To this date no burials have ever been found, it is thought that they cremated their died. At the site in north La. the mound it shaped like a large bird. There has been poverty point sites found all the way down on the gulf of Mexico.

 

[rock]

Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's goods!
Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's goods!!
Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's goods!!!

Thanks for visiting

 

[Twitch]

awesome. I think we even discussed this in a thread a couple of weeks ago. Very nice.

 

[the creek gang]

That is just cool!! I'm envious.

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[unclemac]

...so now your done right? you can retire and let ME find the next one!

 

[monsterrack]

awesome. I think we even discussed this in a thread a couple of weeks ago. Very nice.

We did and I told you it was on my bucket list, so I hope I'm not going to kick the bucket

 

[Dirt fishing Wolf]

AWESOME!!!!

 

[Theakiki]

Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's goods!
Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's goods!!
Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's goods!!!

I had to come back today and look at this again.
I seriously can't think of an American Indian artifact that I would rather find than this!

 

[Bass]

Monsterrack, last time i checked there were only 2 effigy pcs like yours known to exist. One from morehouse parish and one from down around the gilbert/wisner area. That is a spectacular find. Congratulations

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[Bass]

My 3 favorite pcs. The first 2 because of their size, the larger poverty point pc because of its beauty







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[dbag1969]

Thanks alot! I'm getting a sore back picking up every red rock I see!

 

[painterx7]

I'm still amazed that is the best artifact I have seen found since I started on here !!!! I got a picture of it saved on my phone Outstanding !!!

 

[yaxthri]

Congrats on the find, the banner and the photo presentation atop the other find ;-)

 

[birdman]

Hard work paid off for you big time!

 

[monsterrack]

My 3 favorite pcs. The first 2 because of their size, the larger poverty point pc because of its beauty

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That is a super fine point

 

[Bass]

Thanks monsterrack, it came from the bank of bayou macon. Keep looking, there's more out there

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