Artifacts and the bases of Trees

[vonfatman]

A fellow rock chaser from NE Oklahoma offered me a little free advice regarding looking for rocks in areas where trees are growing. "check out the bases of the trees and a few inches out from the bases"... I did not find any that day but yesterday I was reminded of the advice when I spotted a chunk of chert the tree had unearthed.

Enjoy an awesome Tuesday.

vfm

 

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[Older The Better]

It does work sometimes, I’ve found a few things that way, what you really want to find is trees that have blown over and exposed the root ball, that’s how I found one of my best sites, I noticed a bunch of flakes in the root ball and after looking closer I found a few small points too, since then I go back a sift time to time and always find a bunch of flakes usually a broke or two and on a good day a point.

 

[robertk]

what you really want to find is trees that have blown over and exposed the root ball, that’s how I found one of my best sites,

Agreed. My best point ever came out of the root ball of a tree the river had knocked over.

 

[dognose]

good idea, I have checked root balls when walking in the woods. I have found some on cow paths too in pastures.

 

[vonfatman]

I found my first artifact on a sheep trail in the Snowy Range, WY, - a nice bi-faced knife - I took it to the archeological folks at there U of W and was told..."oh, it's not old, probably 5,000 - 8,000 years". My guy must have been a Paleo dude.

vfm