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August 6th,2006
I was on a waterway here in Tennessee. It was an early morning and the fog was still hanging on. I was
along the water watching two fishermen drift by. They were close and I said hello and we talked about fishing as fishermen do . I looked down and saw under a large root ball a piece of brown flint. I was getting excited but had to keep talking as they drifted by. Once they disappeared into the fog I backed up and knelt down and looked under the tree root. The following items had released themselves from the roots and were all lying together in the sand. I was a happy puppy. Of course I wanted more but further search revealed nothing else. This trip was by canoe and when we went to leave my paddling partner set down on a rock they had placed in their seat and bolted upright. I was already in the back of the canoe(drivers seat) and the canoe was going over no matter what I did. The front of the canoe was in a foot of water the back was over the channel in 20 feet of water. I was drove down into the depths before I knew it. All I could think of was the points in the cooler. I saw daylight and surfaced swam and saved them but we lost fishing rods gear and who cares what else cause I saved the points again. My paddling partner was standing in a foot of water. : )
I consider these a true cache as they were all together touching and similar items probably made by the same person. No bone or pottery were seen with these items. They were "almost" in context considering their short drop out of the tree root.
The blades are Fort Payne Chert the preform uni platter/scrapper is from horn stone.
I have never settled on a type for these. At first I thought Copena or possibly Tennessee River Knifes. I have also been told and seen pictures of identical paleo blades of same material from this area but am not convinced. The flaking comes to the center in one strike with no secondary blade work. To me it was just a fun memorable hunt. None are perfect no monetary value here but they are real and found by me. Thanks for letting me ramble and share some of my old finds.
Any advice is as always welcome.
HH
TnMountains
I was on a waterway here in Tennessee. It was an early morning and the fog was still hanging on. I was
along the water watching two fishermen drift by. They were close and I said hello and we talked about fishing as fishermen do . I looked down and saw under a large root ball a piece of brown flint. I was getting excited but had to keep talking as they drifted by. Once they disappeared into the fog I backed up and knelt down and looked under the tree root. The following items had released themselves from the roots and were all lying together in the sand. I was a happy puppy. Of course I wanted more but further search revealed nothing else. This trip was by canoe and when we went to leave my paddling partner set down on a rock they had placed in their seat and bolted upright. I was already in the back of the canoe(drivers seat) and the canoe was going over no matter what I did. The front of the canoe was in a foot of water the back was over the channel in 20 feet of water. I was drove down into the depths before I knew it. All I could think of was the points in the cooler. I saw daylight and surfaced swam and saved them but we lost fishing rods gear and who cares what else cause I saved the points again. My paddling partner was standing in a foot of water. : )I consider these a true cache as they were all together touching and similar items probably made by the same person. No bone or pottery were seen with these items. They were "almost" in context considering their short drop out of the tree root.
The blades are Fort Payne Chert the preform uni platter/scrapper is from horn stone.
I have never settled on a type for these. At first I thought Copena or possibly Tennessee River Knifes. I have also been told and seen pictures of identical paleo blades of same material from this area but am not convinced. The flaking comes to the center in one strike with no secondary blade work. To me it was just a fun memorable hunt. None are perfect no monetary value here but they are real and found by me. Thanks for letting me ramble and share some of my old finds.
Any advice is as always welcome.
HH
TnMountains
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!! I might even try a little "point hunt'n" ,. maybe hard to believe ,but it has been years since I've done it out here in California ,... sad ,I know !! Hmmm, my O' buddy , about 2 mounths ago invited me to hunt the "Ranch" with him , and he did say it all burnt off last year ?? And it is a good time of year for it out here in California , rain and no weeds ?? 
I never knew you guys were around back then and thought I was the only arrowhead hunter out there 
