Hey, Wheres the Middle?

[Charl]

Hey, Where's the Middle?

Probably out there somewhere, and if I'm lucky, one of these years......

i spotted the longer piece pressed into the hard pan of a farm lane surrounding a field back in the summer of 2010. At the time, I wondered if I had just been walking right by it every time I walked around the field. Then this year, the farmer plowed up the farm track itself and incorporated it into a new field. Out there hunting with the Mrs. week before last and when she called out she had found the end of a pestle, and I looked up to see her standing where the farm lane had once been, and right where I found the pestle fragment, I pretty much knew right away it was the same pestle.

Naturally, couldn't wait to see if the pieces locked right in, but I knew it would be a pretty small pestle, and sure enough no luck. So, maybe someday we'll have a complete pestle. If you walk long enough, eventually you may conjoin broken artifacts. Most of the time, it will be a point, and not a big tool. First time I did that with a point, I found the tip portion 10 years to the week after finding the small base portion in the same row of a corn field. Seen below...

 

[quito]

I'm guessing there really isn't much missing. I sure hope you find it though.

 

[monsterrack]

There are some great odds working against that but it does happen, but you have to do a lot of walking and staying on top of your spot

 

[old digger]

Surely hope you can find that missing middle piece. It took me two years to find the other half of an awl, but am confident that you can find the missing piece sooner.

 

[mainejman]

Well it will definetly keep your interest in that area.While digging I rarely find the second half or third but I have and it does keep you motivated...mjm