texasriverdigger2.0
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When I was 16yr old, I found a porcelain fossil (stag horn base) on the Brazos river. I was told by the old timer that owned the land, it might possibly have been used as a flint knapping tool because he had found arrowheads in the same place. It was the coolest thing. And that find, started a boy on a life long hunt for treasure.
The stag base has faint cut marks where the tines was removed. It has wear marks on the sides of the small tine stub. It fits a man's hand just fine.
As the years passed, I eventually started finding other fossilized bones frags, bone and stone tools, arrowheads, burnt rock, burnt bone and possible clay pottery fragments around what I believe to be a old 10-20 acre hearth site, on a 150 acres of high ground on the Brazos river.
The bone and wood tools are possibly a knapping tool, pendant, sabre tooth bone awl. The razor thin awl was sharpened on both sides, a large broken wooden handle with pine pitch or asphaltum stains, a bone shaft tool, it also fits a man's hands just fine, and a broken antler or wooden spoon.....
If you look at the bison bone closely, you can see what looks to be cuts, hack marks, scratches or teeth marks on the bone.
I also found little geofacts...ie... A small gray geode baby's rattle? A small hand ground pink jasper snake head effigy? (I also found more rough gold and pink jasper rock and possibly more ground jasper effigies or tools) And a few other odd bone and stone things, I'm not sure about.
The old timers have all died that allowed me to treasure hunt for a couple decades. Today, the family dont want me digging anymore. I hadn't been back to that site in 10yrs. So I continue to work the Brazos river banks for treasure.
Yes, I admit it, I'm a bone hoarder.....
I still have stones and bones from that site to go thru. I'm trying to catch up and catalog it all. Before my wife, for 34 blissful years, dumps it all back in the river..... cheeeese
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The stag base has faint cut marks where the tines was removed. It has wear marks on the sides of the small tine stub. It fits a man's hand just fine.
As the years passed, I eventually started finding other fossilized bones frags, bone and stone tools, arrowheads, burnt rock, burnt bone and possible clay pottery fragments around what I believe to be a old 10-20 acre hearth site, on a 150 acres of high ground on the Brazos river.
The bone and wood tools are possibly a knapping tool, pendant, sabre tooth bone awl. The razor thin awl was sharpened on both sides, a large broken wooden handle with pine pitch or asphaltum stains, a bone shaft tool, it also fits a man's hands just fine, and a broken antler or wooden spoon.....
If you look at the bison bone closely, you can see what looks to be cuts, hack marks, scratches or teeth marks on the bone.
I also found little geofacts...ie... A small gray geode baby's rattle? A small hand ground pink jasper snake head effigy? (I also found more rough gold and pink jasper rock and possibly more ground jasper effigies or tools) And a few other odd bone and stone things, I'm not sure about.
The old timers have all died that allowed me to treasure hunt for a couple decades. Today, the family dont want me digging anymore. I hadn't been back to that site in 10yrs. So I continue to work the Brazos river banks for treasure.
Yes, I admit it, I'm a bone hoarder.....
I still have stones and bones from that site to go thru. I'm trying to catch up and catalog it all. Before my wife, for 34 blissful years, dumps it all back in the river..... cheeeese
.
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