Indian artifact creek hunting tips and tricks

[cpc988]

Hey it's now winter in Texas the leaves have pretty much fallen.Most of the woodland creek beds are now mostly dry . Does anyone out there have a better way of searching the creeks (or do you just bring a rake)?

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Rake

Look behind things that would hinder the current in a stream, that is where I use to find the most when I hunted in Missouri. After heavy rains the sides of creeks and streams would cave in and artifacts would fall in the water, I would look downstream behind rocks, logs anything that would hinder or block the current, points would fall there and not move..... At the bottom of small waterfalls were also good.....

I never took a rake to a stream...

 

[Tnmountains]

Back pack leaf blower does a really good job. I mean as long as you have permission ,blows water on everything that is dry and makes it pop. I am laughing cause I did this on a creek one fall on some land where I owned one side and the neighbor owned the other. If not a good flipping stick to move the things around once you hit flint concentrate from there on.

 

[GatorBoy]

You could take a small sifter with you to the higher probability areas and sift the material that has gathered in the gullies behind rocks that are deep enough to still hold water. Like TreasureHunter said that's where the more dense items like points wind up. You may have walked past alot if you never tried that. In places like creeks where artifacts tend to gather from the forces of nature there is usually alot more artifacts that are covered as compared to those that chance left visable on the surface. So I usually try to do one of two things 1) cover alot of ground or 2) uncover alot of material. Hope this helps....good luck and please let us know in the North American Artifacts forum how you do.

 

[cpc988]

Thanks ,good tips ! I'm going to bring a sifter and see what turns up.

 

[GatorBoy]

Good luck. I bet you find some.