1 site, 250 plus pieces, finally banned from this field due to construction!!

[Treefrog]

now they are rolling the big earth movers there with signs everywhere warning they will prosecute anyone trespassing!!
well i got mine while the getting was good.

 

[Treefrog]

i spent about 1 hour with the owners wife at my office and showed her every single piece (other than my 12x10x10 full box of broken stuff) that i have found out there about a week after she bought the land. she gave me permission to continue but i knew just the way she gave me permission it wasnt gonna last long.
so im happy as hell with what ive gotten. ive got a nice collection of some really pretty stuff that a lot of ppl would love to get their hands on. i was thinking about looking out there with nightvision at night when i had permission just so i wasnt seen all the time out there. figured if i did it at night no one would think about it and tell me i no longer had permission. but now that they have had to run out loads of artifact hunters, i think that is what has really changed their attitude. ive got some business to do with them soon i m hoping, ill use that time to maybe lay out some plea s again with them. now would not be a good time.
ive gotten permission for a 291 acre area on a hill side in buffalo vally with a stream running through it with 2 caves on the area too. just not had the time to go look yet.
ive walked a few fields and river banks in the last year, (being kinda a newbie to this) but when i hit that field, the 1st 15 hours yielded like 60 artifacts. i was amazed. i would walk and see something like every 5-10 mins, had to keep pulling my pants up from all the rocks in my pockets.
i didnt even know what i was picking up. but i keep everything i saw that looked unnatural. ive got a box ive not even taken pics off yet. maybe ill go through it and take some pics soon and post them too.
helll there might be something in there that i thought was nothing.
after finding you guys i realized what i had found and how blessed i was to have a chance to walk a field like that.
i may never find another place like that, but ill always remember it. i could almost take you there and show u where i picked up every item. its all stuck in my head.
but dont worry, im not gonna piss em off and go nosing around, dont wanna mess up my chance at doing some business with them.
i install security and fire systems and design them as well. that is also what got me the new place to look just about 3 weeks ago when i was installing a camera system in a guys house. ill find some good areas to look again with luck.
thx for all the comments though, im really learning a lot here.
tree

 

[archer66]

Sounds like you've really gotten the bug....it lasts a lifetime. You know not to expect every site to be that productive but it sounds like you have access to some terrific properties. Keep looking and keep posting pics.

 

[BuckleBoy]

i spent about 1 hour with the owners wife at my office and showed her every single piece (other than my 12x10x10 full box of broken stuff) that i have found out there about a week after she bought the land. she gave me permission to continue but i knew just the way she gave me permission it wasnt gonna last long.
so im happy as hell with what ive gotten. ive got a nice collection of some really pretty stuff that a lot of ppl would love to get their hands on. i was thinking about looking out there with nightvision at night when i had permission just so i wasnt seen all the time out there. figured if i did it at night no one would think about it and tell me i no longer had permission. but now that they have had to run out loads of artifact hunters, i think that is what has really changed their attitude. ive got some business to do with them soon i m hoping, ill use that time to maybe lay out some plea s again with them. now would not be a good time.
ive gotten permission for a 291 acre area on a hill side in buffalo vally with a stream running through it with 2 caves on the area too. just not had the time to go look yet.
ive walked a few fields and river banks in the last year, (being kinda a newbie to this) but when i hit that field, the 1st 15 hours yielded like 60 artifacts. i was amazed. i would walk and see something like every 5-10 mins, had to keep pulling my pants up from all the rocks in my pockets.
i didnt even know what i was picking up. but i keep everything i saw that looked unnatural. ive got a box ive not even taken pics off yet. maybe ill go through it and take some pics soon and post them too.
helll there might be something in there that i thought was nothing.
after finding you guys i realized what i had found and how blessed i was to have a chance to walk a field like that.
i may never find another place like that, but ill always remember it. i could almost take you there and show u where i picked up every item. its all stuck in my head.
but dont worry, im not gonna piss em off and go nosing around, dont wanna mess up my chance at doing some business with them.
i install security and fire systems and design them as well. that is also what got me the new place to look just about 3 weeks ago when i was installing a camera system in a guys house. ill find some good areas to look again with luck.
thx for all the comments though, im really learning a lot here.
tree

Best Wishes to you in your search, Tree. You sound like an upstanding guy--and in this hobby, that's the only thing to be.


Regards,


Buckles

 

[lostcauses]

Re: 1 site, 250 plus pieces, finally banned from this field due to construction!

Unfortunately there are probably thousands of sites like that in the area in which he hunts. The problem is moving the dirt to find them. He was on a very early period campsite. Only when they start finding pottery and graves do people even think of preserving and then its still not very common unless its on Federal or state land. Hundreds of ancient town sites with burials are plowed every year for agriculture. Its just the way it is and how we are able to collect. Like Buckleboy said sites come and go.
I give Treefrog credit for finding it in that short time and recovering what he could as quickly as possible.
In my humble opinion its a true artifact banner find for the sheer volume and time frame alone.
TnMtns

They damn sure do not want folks finding bones. Such can shut down the construction. I am sure your permission was removed. You there was a large risk.
What you show here could have caused them a great deal of trouble before the construction began. It could have forced an extra $5000.00 or more for a site survey to be sure there was not graves, or other cultural significance. The local tribes might of even said it was a sacred place.

Ahh the world today. Protect an item, save it from history: Protect a site and save history and it clues: Or maybe it is protect the future and say nothing.

 

[Tnmountains]

Re: 1 site, 250 plus pieces, finally banned from this field due to construction!

Its all about progress. Trees did the right thing. On the Chickamauga creek was located 5 ancient towns. They were known as the last fighting Indians before the trail of tears.(well documented google "Dragging Canoe". One site was scheduled for a shopping center.They did the site work and over the weekend they had rain.The site was covered by people picking up bones pottery shell and points. The owners went nuts and that monday had trucks lined up with fill dirt and was doing the parking lot first before construction. I cant drive by that place with out thinking about it. The main contractor who owned the company told me the story. I learned the rest from history.