garren
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It's good to have friends in the earth moving business who are also interested in artifacts. I had gone to a friends in Fredericksburg to do some metal detecting and while I was there he got a call from his construction company buddies. They said that they had just dug through some burned rock and ashy dirt with several broken points coming up. We dropped metal detecting all together and dug in the construction site for the last two days. I wish I could have stayed longer. They will be covering this dirt up in a few days. If we would have had more notice we could've invited ALL of you to help dig. There was so much artifact laden soil to go through and it's sickening that we can't have more time to thoroughly sift it.
The project was a drainage ditch and you could plainly see the use layer about 12-16" down. The track hoe operator would skim this layer off and spread it out for us on one side of the ditch and put all of the sterile dirt on the other side.
The first pic is what I raked up in the two days I was there. I'm also posting a pic of my friend with an intact Kinney he picked up and one of the workers picked up a long thin blade. Not sure what it is?
In my stuff I can recognize the Perds and a broken Kinney tip but what is the bottom row 2nd from left? and bottom row 4th from left?
Not pictured is all of the points another friend picked up and the track hoe operator found a nice drill that we didn't get a photo of.
The project was a drainage ditch and you could plainly see the use layer about 12-16" down. The track hoe operator would skim this layer off and spread it out for us on one side of the ditch and put all of the sterile dirt on the other side.
The first pic is what I raked up in the two days I was there. I'm also posting a pic of my friend with an intact Kinney he picked up and one of the workers picked up a long thin blade. Not sure what it is?
In my stuff I can recognize the Perds and a broken Kinney tip but what is the bottom row 2nd from left? and bottom row 4th from left?
Not pictured is all of the points another friend picked up and the track hoe operator found a nice drill that we didn't get a photo of.
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