Cobbs

[moundbuilder]

Cobb's

personal find, KY.

 

[rock]

And how big is this one? And what is that white on it? Can I post mine I have?

 

[NC field hunter]

personal find, KY.
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That is a classy find there. How many years have you been hunting artifacts? Thanks for the view!

 

[Twitch]

From memory only here, is that piece pictured in one of the Hothem books?

 

[pickaway]

Killer find...

 

[moundbuilder]

And how big is this one? And what is that white on it? Can I post mine I have?

It's 3 1/8", I think. It's in storage or I'd measure it. That white is a translucent quartz inclusion.

 

[moundbuilder]

From memory only here, is that piece pictured in one of the Hothem books?

It was pictured in a Hothem book, vol 5 I think- I loaned the book to someone and you just reminded me that I need to get that back, lol

 

[moundbuilder]

That is a classy find there. How many years have you been hunting artifacts? Thanks for the view!

My dad got me interested in local prehistory when I was about 7 and would take me all over Ohio and Kentucky. I hunted a LOT from the time I could drive until I turned about 40, which was 5 years ago. Mine is the classic excuse of "I just don't have the time these days." They're building a museum down the road that will display a lot of local finds so I'm going to get involved with that. They currently have a basement full of artifacts including a Wooly Mammoth tusk that was found in a gravel pit a few miles away.

 

[rock]

Some times I just dont know how to take you MB. One min you sound serious and other times you sound silly. I do believe you have a lot of knowledge but just like to joke around some.

 

[moundbuilder]

Some times I just dont know how to take you MB. One min you sound serious and other times you sound silly. I do believe you have a lot of knowledge but just like to joke around some.

That's exactly what my wife says, rock! Anyone who has been to the Town Hall will tell you about the Wooly Mammoth tusk.

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[Tnmountains]

Nice cobbs. I think Twitch has a photographic memory. I have only one Cobbs knife. Very cool old tool. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Twitch]

Nice cobbs. I think Twitch has a photographic memory. I have only one Cobbs knife. Very cool old tool. Thanks for sharing.

It pretty sick sometimes... Here's a quick story, I'm hunting a site in Southern IL with friend A and we find a bunch of stuff. ~2 years later and literally dozens of trips to dozens of spots across 4 states, 100's of whole points and 1,000's of brokes, I'm hunting the same site with friend B. He finds a base off of a ~3 inch archaic stemmed point. I say to friend B "I think friend A found the tip to that a couple of years ago". We all three work at the same place so I call friend A from the field and describe the tip he found a couple of years ago to him and ask him to bring it to work on Monday. Monday comes and the pieces fit. It was pretty neat.

 

[NC field hunter]

My dad got me interested in local prehistory when I was about 7 and would take me all over Ohio and Kentucky. I hunted a LOT from the time I could drive until I turned about 40, which was 5 years ago. Mine is the classic excuse of "I just don't have the time these days." They're building a museum down the road that will display a lot of local finds so I'm going to get involved with that. They currently have a basement full of artifacts including a Wooly Mammoth tusk that was found in a gravel pit a few miles away.

That is cool that you are helping with the museum. My dad got me into artifact hunting as well. Seems like you have found some museum grade artifacts!!

 

[Tnmountains]

He has shown some killer pieces. Good eye

 

[yakker]

Educate me please. I was always under the impression that Cobb's knives had squared off bases and that Stanfield(?) knives more often had rounded bases. I'm having a hell of a time finding a good explanation of the differences- or is it all about location- as is so often the issue- the name of an item similar to another, but with a different name vecause it was found in a different region. Just asking.

 

[Twitch]

Educate me please. I was always under the impression that Cobb's knives had squared off bases and that Stanfield(?) knives more often had rounded bases. I'm having a hell of a time finding a good explanation of the differences- or is it all about location- as is so often the issue- the name of an item similar to another, but with a different name vecause it was found in a different region. Just asking.

For what it's worth I've never really seen much of a difference between the two. At best I would say Stanfield's look a little different in that Cobb's, if you added notches to them would generally look like a Dovetail or Lost Lake. Stanfield's with notches wouldn't. This is a fairly useless difference I'm sure but it works OK for me.

 

[yakker]

thanks Twitch. Hard to tell, and subjective, I guess, to a degree.
Cheers-
Yak