Im so boring....

[SOHIO]

I'm so boring....

Sorry I haven't posted anything lately fellas but I just haven't found anything great since last spring...was so dagone busy to go this summer any....but winter and spring is when i do most of my digging. I also decided last spring to stop posting stuff that wasn't great...I find a lot of field grade stuff digging and it just gets old posting the same ole same ole.. I have however started on a new site and still have more to go on the site my roller pestle was found...but in 4 recent outings I have gotten myself back in the groove and have found a few points and some great flint ridge scrapers and bladelets . The fall dirt smelled great sat afternoon when i plunged into it, but i dug as fast as my little arms could swing my digger for 5 hours, heck i only smoked 2 cigarettes while i was there (i chainsmoke) I was feeling it..... sweet chunks of flint ridge poured out but after it was said and done for my 5 hours i only went home with curiously clearer lungs and a broken tip..oh and a couple crude ovate knives...supper sure tasted good when i got back. better luck next time i guess.....and i'm sure that will be pretty soon i'm feeling "that way" lately ...like im getting ready to put everything aside for some me time diggin all winter....hopefully the ground won't stay too saturated this winter. I'm rethinking the posting pictures though ...i like seeing others "not so great stuff" .

 

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[1320]

Post up man, I like to drool over anything Flint Ridge. How 'bout it, just for your ole flaming pal?! LOL. The area in which I seek artifacts is not that far removed from the Flint Ridge "area" yet I have only found one very small piece of it in the hundreds of hours that I've spent searching.....

 

[SOHIO]

yeah i had always presumed ky had flintridge materials just as much as ohio..i mean i figure it would be less of course away from the source but...

 

[NC field hunter]

yeah i had always presumed ky had flintridge materials just as much as ohio..i mean i figure it would be less of course away from the source but...

A friend of mine showed me a frame of KY points that he had personally found, and they were out of this world. I'm not sure what lithic they were napped out of, but they were nice. What makes so many of the elders say no natives occupied KY? I have, many times, while driving through West VA, thought, no way natives could have lived in this rocky terrain. That is until I went into a native American museum in West VA. The stuff in there was amazing. I couldn't take pics, due to a scum bucket thief breaking in and taking some stuff. I saw a rock wall that someone had found in three pieces, in that museum. The wall had cool carvings on it. Sorry if I hijacked the thread, but the mention of KY made me think of this.

 

[GatorBoy]

I have some nice Kentucky pieces. One I know is chert the others I'm not sure of... think Ya'll could help?

 

[1320]

A friend of mine showed me a frame of KY points that he had personally found, and they were out of this world. I'm not sure what lithic they were napped out of, but they were nice. What makes so many of the elders say no natives occupied KY? I have, many times, while driving through West VA, thought, no way natives could have lived in this rocky terrain. That is until I went into a native American museum in West VA. The stuff in there was amazing. I couldn't take pics, due to a scum bucket thief breaking in and taking some stuff. I saw a rock wall that someone had found in three pieces, in that museum. The wall had cool carvings on it. Sorry if I hijacked the thread, but the mention of KY made me think of this.

I know of the elders of which you speak, their "knowledge" seems to be more post contact oriented and in that regard for the most part.....are correct. Must be the same elders that would only dig a shelter down to the 1.5 foot mark....lol.

 

[1320]

I have some nice Kentucky pieces. One I know is chert the others I'm not sure of... think Ya'll could help?

I doubt that I can help but I sure would like to see them......post up!

 

[GatorBoy]

Here they are.. they were gifted to me, before ever being cleaned.. that was awesome! It was like taking part in the find. Notice some of them are arrow points Hamilton I belive.

 

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[NC field hunter]

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Some nice looking blunts, stunners or hafted scrapers. You can choose your own term on that one, I suppose. The difference between flint and chert is one that I don't think will ever sink in for me.

 

[GatorBoy]

They're both microcrystalline Quartzsite. The term Flint.. is usually reserved for higher quality material.. finer grained. They're both really the same thing. I call it all chert.. it's just a habit because that's what most of the Florida guys I know call all of it.

 

[NC field hunter]

They're both microcrystalline Quartzsite. The term Flint.. is usually reserved for higher quality material.. finer grained. They're both really the same thing.

I got the quality part. Sort of like lumber grades. Will mineral composites form on flint, considering it has a " finer grain"?

 

[GatorBoy]

That's a very good question... I can only comment on what I know on that .. I have several pieces with calcium deposits.

 

[NC field hunter]

That's a very good question... I can only comment on what I know on that .. I have several pieces with calcium deposits.

I saw that. In my own collection I have noticed calcium and iron composite. They are normally on multicolored, or brown "chert". I'm going to say chert for now. Got something to read about anyway!! Thanks!!

 

[SOHIO]

deposits

 

[NC field hunter]

deposits

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Thanks Sohio! Man, and that is why books are a better source than the Internet. Even my terminology makes it on the net. Lol

 

[Tnmountains]

Here they are.. they were gifted to me, before ever being cleaned.. that was awesome! It was like taking part in the find. Notice some of them are arrow points Hamilton I belive.

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Nice hamiltons prolly hornstone Gator. Common material that is razor sharp and works well.

 

[GatorBoy]

Thanks.. you sure have some nice material in your neck of the woods. Good to see you in this forum.hows the civil war treating you?