I Still Cant Believe What I Found !

[ivy_walls]

So check this out. I had been doing some research on a location that I wanted to check out with my metal detector. It used to be a saw mill out pretty far in the county. It so happened that I had been to church very early for a prayer group on Tuesday morning and we finished a little early. So I decided to go a little out of my way to see what the area looked like from the road. Once I got there I figured I had to at least look around and see if there were any remains on the ground. Instantly I started finding broken up pieces of pottery, some neat looking rocks, and glass from plates and bottles all over the place.







After picking up a pocket full of these things I called my wife to tell her where I was and that I would be heading home soon. While she was still on the phone I looked down and found my very first arrow head in 44 years of searching!!



I also found this very peculiar round piece of wood looking thing. It almost looks like a knot from a piece of wood, but its as hard as rock. Could it be petrified after only 200 years?? Its definitely knot a rock – its way to light.



And then the thing my biology teacher mother-in-law thought was the coolest thing. You tell me – it looks like a bear claw? If it is, then the next question is – How long has it been since there were bears in northern Indiana??



Then I also found a glass button and a couple of Indian beads. One of the beads had the center cleaned out so maybe its authentic?? I found all these things on the ground in about 30 minutes.





So raced home to show my wife and to beg her to let me go back and get permission from the farmer to be out there in his field. She finally said yes and the rest of the story is pretty boring. The farmer said yes "but just this one time" and I only had about two hours to be there. So in a panic to cover as much ground with my detector and my eyes at the same time I basically found nothing more than a few shards of possible arrow heads



and a lot more pottery and some iron pieces of the saw mill rusting away into oblivion.



I put together a pretty nice display and I think I’ll go show it to the farmer to try and warm him up to the idea of letting me go back out there at least one more time!!

Well thanks for looking and happy hunting.

Mark ( A.K.A. ivy_walls )

P.S. I just looked outside and it looks like winter has returned.

 

[CRUSADER]

Wild boar tooth/tusk

 

[kibitzr]

Hi Ivy_Walls, very nice finds for sure. When I saw you said northern Indiana I had to look and discovered we are pretty close ( Niles) and we both use the SE .
Maybe one day we can get in a hunt together , Good luck in future hunts.HH
kib

 

[allen]

those are some neat finds...bears sometimes has a tendency to roam, so it could be a bear claw

 

[wwwtimmcp]

the wooden looking piece may be lignum vitae, a very rare wood but hard as a rock. there is one of the florida keys where lignum vitae grows, old shipbuilders used it to build pulleys as it would stand up better to rope abrasion.

pretty cool finds indeed.

 

[dgaughan]

that is 1 sweet arrowhead congrats and hh

 

[wirebender]

yup, it's a tooth!!!

nice finds over all!!

wireBender(marcus) DDS

 

[Fish-Gate]

Very nice stuff! I also found my first arrowhead while metal detecting last fall.

BTW - according to my reading, there were bears in northern Indiana in the early 1800's (found out while researching old areas).

 

[diggin jimmy hoffa]

Hey Mark,
Great eye finds that you have there.

I remember my grandfather giving me his 1954 Michigan Hunting Regulations book and it showed a map of what counties bear hunting was allowed in. At that time it showed that Cass County was included in the bear hunting guide. Heck Cass County is just North of you, so it is possible that it could be a Bear claw.

HH

DJH

 

[treasurefiend]