A Good Find Today.

[monsterrack]

Went to work at 1:30am ran home at 9:00am and went to the creek. Walked till about 2pm found a bunch of pottery and a well used Celt that looks to be made from a petrified wood. You can tell they beat this old man up a bunch in his working days. 1st 2 photos are right out of the creek the others are after I washed it. I don't care who you are, this is never a good thing to happen to you in a creek and you have a 4 mile hike out. I can't complain ,I bought those snake boots close to 18 years ago. There has been a lot of artifacts found while I wore those bad boys.

 

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[The Grim Reaper]

Two words, Shoe Goo. We sell it at ACE and it works really well.

Great looking find too.

 

[monsterrack]

Two words, Shoe Goo. We sell it at ACE and it works really well.

Great looking find too.

SSSSSHHH I need for the wife to think I just have to have a new pair.

 

[Kray Gelder]

Nice find! Nothing like a good pair of boots. My last pair of ARNG issued boots gave it up after 24 years! I have 7 years on my current go to boots.

 

[tnmudman]

Cool find

 

[jamey]

awesome find,using wood to cut wood

 

[old digger]

Nice one!

 

[crj1968]

Yeah, very cool find !

You deserve a new pair of boots after 18 years!

Always enjoy your posts.

 

[rock]

I have 2 pairs of snake boots if you have a sports academy near you there prices are well worth it. The reason I have 2 pair is cause if 1 gets wet I can wear the other dry till they get wet then the 1st pair are dry again. I have to ask on the Celt on the butt end why are they banged up if they were used to chop trees? My latest one I found shows the same as yours like they were banging something on the end. If they were put in a handle I would think the end wouldnt be banged up. Got any theories on it Monster Rack? Now the pole end Celt I found doesnt show that at all but the square end one does.

 

[monsterrack]

I have 2 pairs of snake boots if you have a sports academy near you there prices are well worth it. The reason I have 2 pair is cause if 1 gets wet I can wear the other dry till they get wet then the 1st pair are dry again. I have to ask on the Celt on the butt end why are they banged up if they were used to chop trees? My latest one I found shows the same as yours like they were banging something on the end. If they were put in a handle I would think the end wouldnt be banged up. Got any theories on it Monster Rack? Now the pole end Celt I found doesnt show that at all but the square end one does.

Rock these type of celts where used like a splitting wedge , the banged up end is from where they used a hammer stone to strike it. just say you cut down a tree to make a bow are spear shaft and anything like that. You would have a large piece of wood that need to be cut in 1/4 or smaller, that makes it a lot less trimming and scraping to bring something down to size. I saw a depiction of NA cutting into a very large tree and using celts to split off pieces of flatter wood. Good idea on the boots

 

[rock]

I was thinking on the lines of a wedge type of thing when I looked at it. I know we have wedges here but thought they were different in style other than a Celt. Thanks for clearing it up I learned something today.

 

[NCPeaches]

Great finds! and yeah I think those boots have seen their better days, time for a new pair. I probably should but don't buy snake boots, instead I get rubber boots from Walmart and have found the black ones are the most sturdy even though it takes a bit to break them in. The brown ones crack in certain bending spots. Now we don't have those big cottonmouths or rattlesnakes where I'm at thank goodness just the copperheads and they normally aren't big enough to bite through my rubber boots. If I had the other big snakes I'd buy some snake boots for sure. We do have timber rattlers but further up in the mountains and if I had to worry bout them guys I would invest in a pair of those snake boots like you wear but fortunately they aren't a problem so far.

 

[rock]

we have timber rattlers here and copperheads i get snake boots.