Artifact parts reunited...

[tchaire]

Airborne's heartbreaker got me thinking. This topic may have already been covered, but wondering if anyone has found a broken artifact and later found the missing piece. I don't
have any, sorry. (Unless you count the drill I dropped on the kitchen floor...but that's not what
I'm looking for.)

Thanks--T.

 

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[WhiteCountyPaleo]

Cool idea...I got probably 20 or more. It'll take me some time.

 

[rockman0_12]

Here's a 7 inch Wolf Lake point that was found in 3 Pieces. I found the mid section in the spring of 1994 on the Slate Site in Yazoo Co. MS.
When I picked it up I thought to myself that it would have been a big point and the material was so unusual for the area I remembered the
piece. Of course when I got home I tossed it in the bag with the other brokes from that site and never looked at it again.
2 years later I went down to visit the MS. State Archy(Sam McGahey at the time) to show him some paleo and early archy finds as Sam
was very interested in recording materials from those eras. When I walked in his office a guy was sitting there talking to Sam and he
had this big base and tip from a large point. I asked if I could look at them and immediately upon picking them up knew I had the mid section.
I told him "I have the mid section to this point" He looked at me like I was from another Solar System and said "You are kidding, No way"
So I proceeded to tell him exactly where he found it and watched his mouth drop a bit. He was still in denial until I went home and brought
the mid section back. I'd never met this guy in my life until that day. He and his girlfriend had found the tip and base on the same day in 1996.
Since he had 2/3rds of the point we agreed it was only right that he should have the mid section to complete the point.
That's the most remarkable story of putting a piece back together for me.

 

[archaeon]

Cool story! Unbelieveable!

 

[MEinWV]

Amazing reunion! I found a aquamarine beryl crystal once at a popular mine, and then the following year I was at that mine again and found a matching piece. When I picked it up I thought that it looked familiar. It was the odd shape that told me I had seen it before. When I got home I went right to the other half and the parts fit perfectly. I thought about what the odds were of finding matching pieces a year apart in a mine dump that had billions and billions of pieces scattered about.

Great ending to your story! Thanks!

HH

 

[*Molly*]

Great Thread, wish I could show you mine but, can't post, haven't be able to for over a week. Oh Well.

Molly.

 

[Shemanese]

^^^^^

Why not?

 

[WhiteCountyPaleo]

Rockman...was it made out of dover?
That's a big one!

 

[pickaway]

I have found 11 so far from 1 site that i have been able to match up here's a pic of a few.

 

[rockman0_12]

Rockman...was it made out of dover?
That's a big one!

Looks more like Ft Payne, Look at the color change in the small nick out towards the tip.
It was broken by a plow. All of the broken spots show the much darker material.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Here's a nice Stemmed Point that I found in two pieces on the same day about 35 feet apart along the banks of the Ohio River. My son and I were hunting the banks of the river when I walked up the tip of the point right along the waters edge. I picked it up and noticed that it had broke right where a Brachiopod fossil was inside the point. I stuck the tip in my pocket and headed up the bank a few steps and spotted the base laying in the sand. I picked it up and saw that it too had broken where a fossil had been and noticed that the impression of a Brachiopod was in the broken part of the base. I showed it to my son and asked if he thought they might match before I took the tip out of my pocket and he said he thought they would. I got both pieces out and was pleasantly surprised when they fit back together almost perfectly. This is the one and only time I have matched up broken pieces in my 43 years of hunting and it was done the same day within 5 minutes of each other.

 

[tchaire]

Love the stories that go along with the "reunions".

T.

 

[Johnny X]

Those are fantastic.

StevenX

 

[jeff a]

looks like your onto a nice adena cache pickaway,have you found any unbroken ones from the site?

 

[Jonnyreb]

I've found several myself over the years. Sometimes the same day, sometimes years apart. Unfortuantely I only have one pic.
This is a quartzite Delhi(?) found near the Red River. Found the tip in the summer of 2000, found the bottem in the spring of 2003. I didnt think anything when I first found the bottem, till I got home looking at my haul, and remembered the tip from several years before, so I retreived it and the peices fit. Sorry for the scanner Image. The point is 2 3/4 inches long.