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Offcenter and I got out today to hit the fields for a short while. The cotton and peanuts are gone from almost all the fields now...finally. We struck out at one field because there hasn't been enough rain to beat down the dust. The next field was washed a little better, but not as well as I like. It's a very good field though, so the chances were still high that we'd find something. The first thing I got was a broken stem. Then we walked for 30 minutes or so picking up chips and hunks of flint and Offcenter shouted "got one!". I walked over and he showed me a nice point. I don't have a pic of it...maybe he will post it. Not ong afterwards, I saw what looked like a tiny flake of flint. I reached down to get it, and it was one corner of this little gem sticking out of the dirt. Great! Our first time out point hunting after the crops are out of the fields, and we both score.
This one is a heavily re-sharpened bolen-bevel. It's an early archaic point, somewhere in the neighborhood of 8 to 11 thousand years old. (For whoever might be interested).
The field that this came from used to provide huge numbers of high quality points for a little while, until the farmers went to no-till planting. We still find them there, but not like we used to. Today, however, the field was PLOWED!!!! I haven't seen it like this in years. I am anxiously awaiting the next good rain so we can go find the good stuff!
This one is a heavily re-sharpened bolen-bevel. It's an early archaic point, somewhere in the neighborhood of 8 to 11 thousand years old. (For whoever might be interested).
The field that this came from used to provide huge numbers of high quality points for a little while, until the farmers went to no-till planting. We still find them there, but not like we used to. Today, however, the field was PLOWED!!!! I haven't seen it like this in years. I am anxiously awaiting the next good rain so we can go find the good stuff!
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