Learned Alot From My Walk Today

[monsterrack]

I made a walk down the creek I had been hunting over and had a good day and learned a lot about what all is possible to find. First this creek's gravel is larger than any other creek I have ever found in this area, most of it is large has my fist and that is uncommon. 2nd the type of stone I found tells me that it is cutting trough some old layers. The 2 pieces in my hand are what I look for to tell me how deep a creek is cutting. The piece to the left in my hand is a sandstone that formed around a root and the other piece is what I call Iron stone, both come from an old formation and where you can find things like Mastodon and giant animal remains and maybe some old stone tools. This creek drains 2 counties and by air miles is 25mi long ,by walking miles it may be 50mi long, so I may never get it all walked. So I am going to chart this creek as I go up stream by plotting my finds and all the smaller creeks that run into it and this may take me the rest of my life, but I think I may find some good stuff in this one creek. This is what I found today in less than a 1/4 mile1 broken hammer stone1 whole hammer stone and a nice group of other worked stoneA couple of scrapers, cores, chipped stone and a knife blade.

 

[VERDE]

Hey Mrack!! NEAT FINDS!! Do you know what tribe or tribes resided in that region?? GOOD HUNTING!! VERDE!!

 

[painterx7]

Great finds rack keep us up to date on your findings !!!!

 

[rock]

Those cores look interesting. I dont keep them anymore unless they look nice. I got plenty of them now, lol.

 

[monsterrack]

Those cores look interesting. I dont keep them anymore unless they look nice. I got plenty of them now, lol.

You don't finds cores around here very much, most of the creek chert was not big enough to flake enough to make a core. That why I'm pumped about this creek, the stones are large for this area.

 

[curious kat]

Nice finds and a nice story.....very interesting information on creeks monsterrack, thanks for sharing with us...

 

[outlawatheart]

following the proverbial bread crumbs to the source MR...GOOD FINDS!

 

[yakker]

Good thinking and very wise approach to your search of the creek. I need to keep this in mind as I attempt the creeks in my area- feeder creeks and such. You're onto something for sure- but like you said, a lifetime of work(play) walking and searching and mapping. Good on you! HH Yak