Central NC Paleo Find - 2-16-14

[dlos]

I haven't been out looking for almost 2 months! Today started with a trip to a construction site rumored to have once upon a time had a good site on it. Went with my buddy to check it out - nothing but mud, mud and more mud. Oh, and lots of golf balls! After an hour or so of looking that I took my buddy home and decided to head out to another place and see what I could do.

I wasn't having any luck, not even seeing chips. I was getting ready to quit and head home when I found this:

3 1/4" Hardaway Dalton!!!












Now, it's not the greatest example of its form, nor is it crafted from the best material BUT it is whole and it is PALEO!!

Finding that gave me no choice but to forge on and keep looking. Soon after I found these:









Group shot of the day's finds:


Maybe I need to take another couple months off if this is how the return to the hobby will go! Thanks for looking!

 

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[old digger]

Cool Finds!

 

[Rege-PA]

Great find! Looking at the wear use on the one side of the blade, I would say it saw service as a hafted knife. One side is usually sharpened more heavily than another due to a curved handle that fit the hand more comfortably. Just my opinion.

 

[dlos]

Rege - that's pretty much exactly what my friends and I concluded after deliberating the shape of this thing extensively!

 

[SCrocks]

That was a great day! Love that H/D

 

[NC field hunter]

That's a nice, I mean really nice find. I have never seen a hardaway/dalton that size. I have one from south central VA. No where near as big as yours!!

 

[Americus]

You had a killer hunt. Thanks for sharing.

 

[curious kat]

Those are very nice finds...thank you for sharing!

 

[rock]

Looks like you had a great day. Nice artifacts

 

[monsterrack]

They may be narley but they are real nice and great finds

 

[quito]

Congratulations! Those are some spectacular finds.

 

[NCPeaches]

Great finds!

 

[NC field hunter]

You know..... It's always tripped me out, the number of golf balls I find while hunting artifacts. It's obvious that the natives here preferred golf over chunkey! Lol! I certainly do not find as many discoidals as I do golf balls.

 

[Tnmountains]

That puppy has some age on it. Very nice. I bet you are glad you dropped your buddy off! That creek looks promising. Hard to beat a Dalton and one that long is great.

 

[dlos]

The golf balls thing is something else. I do find a lot of them and in the strangest places!

Tn - always a bittersweet thing going out alone. When you aren't finding anything the company is nice to have, misery loves company? On the other hand, the thought of NOT finding the nicest point because your partner did well that a tough one!

 

[rock]

Or if your buddy jumps in front of you just before you get to it. That has happened to me before. I should of knocked him down but I couldnt believe he did it. Next time I will push him over and pick it up myself.

 

[dlos]

Or if your buddy jumps in front of you just before you get to it. That has happened to me before. I should of knocked him down but I couldnt believe he did it. Next time I will push him over and pick it up myself.

Lol, that's funny! Feel the same way. Thing is, I've probably done that before to him and he to me. What comes around goes around I guess.

Best of it is when you see one right near your buddies foot and pick it up before he gets it! With this one and the way the area had to be hunted, it would've been a single file line or jumping over each other to the next space alternately. We always try to come up with a fair plan so no one feels screwed at the end of the day.

 

[catherine1]

Congrats on the paleo find. The base is awesome. Thanks for the view!

 

[ncnurseryman]

That's a funky piece for sure and I like it!!! That a center point to you collection. Pun intended.

 

[monsterrack]

I always like to say I guess you didn't want this point and pick it up at my buddy's feet. We kinda rub it in on each other.



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