Lets see what you consider your rarest personal find...

[mainejman]

I have older artifacts but I would consider my avatar to be my rarest of finds...it is a white ground slate point probably made by the Red paint people of Maine...3,000-4,000 years old...let's see them mjm...

 

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[filmiracl]

Don't have much in terms of anything rare... but I guess the rarest thing for me would be the pendant / charm stone (whatever it is...)

 

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[Old Pueblo]

Thats really nice, too. Maybe it was a game piece or a shaman's stone.

 

[Old Pueblo]

Amazing pieces you people post, I hope to see more. This was found on the front side of a small hill on where all these valleys intersected. You could see a lot from this point. I found a small drill and a piece of the pipe. I started digging around and found around 1/2 dozen drills mixed in with the catlinite pieces I went back many times and found a few more each time. I have never tried to glue it. Definataly rare for me and astonishing to think about. Sorry for the bad pictures. I lost my key to my case and things are sliding. There are some shell pieces from someone making a necklace. That was found down lower in the valley.
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Whats the green thing hiding in there? A bead?

 

[Old Pueblo]

LOL its a tooth with the full root attached. Found in a cave on Guam.

From Guam? There was fighting there in World War II. Maybe it came from a Japanese soldier.

 

[Riverbum]

Hello Quito,
Somehow , as you hold this item, it reminds me of something you'd want to use as you LACE up while making clothes. Of course no one had actual Needles but something sharp enough to stab through leather to the PALM of your hand. Those small holes all around are the only clue I have giving me that thought. Also I'm NO EXPERT, can't hurt to speculate. I got to believe it would stop you from being stabbed during the making of clothes, moccasins etc.

 

[monsterrack]

Hands down this is mine.

 

[sandchip]

That is some kinda sweet, Monster!

 

[diggingthe1]

Whats the green thing hiding in there? A bead?

It is half a turquoise bead, that was in the same area!

 

[quito]

Hello Quito,
Somehow , as you hold this item, it reminds me of something you'd want to use as you LACE up while making clothes. Of course no one had actual Needles but something sharp enough to stab through leather to the PALM of your hand. Those small holes all around are the only clue I have giving me that thought. Also I'm NO EXPERT, can't hurt to speculate. I got to believe it would stop you from being stabbed during the making of clothes, moccasins etc.

thanks for the input! The piece is very highly polished both sides, and what you think are holes, are groves etched around the edge.

 

[Ammoman]

From Guam? There was fighting there in World War II. Maybe it came from a Japanese soldier.

Yes i suspect it did. Their was an explosion deeper in the cave that collapsed the roof. I found it about 100 feet from the rubble, very close to the entrance.

 

[Mark Todd]

Lots of nice artifacts finds shown here I hope more keep pouring in.
Lightning has struck for me more than once while hunting artifacts.
All but one artifact shown below, I have shown before.
The first one probably doesn't have much value but is probably by far the rarest in terms of numbers of them that have been found.
Artifact number 2 is my rarest personal find in terms of craftsmanship, many high end collectors have pronounced it the finest Archaic barbed Hardin in every quality except for size in the nation.
Artifact Number three is my most valuable personal find and quite rare as well especially having been found in such perfect condition and made with such symmetry and out of colorful translucent-quartz.
Artifact number 4 is a Paleo Folsom point that I found here in Fulton county decades ago, as you can see just a little chip off of the point one of the barbs takes away all the beauty of the points craftsmanship, but it still remains relatively rare find.
Artifact number 5 is an exceptionally nice archaic barbed harden point made out of brown county flint and has been published in many different periodicals and artifact magazines and books as have many of the other pieces that I show.
Artifact number 2 is in the multimillion dollar Dodd DeCamp collection in Houston Texas purchased for 35 grand A several years ago.

Artifact number 3 his and Archaic translucent quartz hourglass banner stone in perfect condition.
This Bannerston is in the Bill Brockman multimillion dollar collection in Indiana and has a value of over 50 grand.
Artifact number 4, A Paleo Folsom point with a tip broke off and also one barb.
Artifact number 5 is resides in the Fred W Marsh Jr collection, chairman director of prehistoric American artifacts magazine.


Can't complain done pretty well.

 

[joshuaream]

I'll cheat for my rarest find, a clovis site. The material in the picture is a small portion of it. Not really a lot of monetary value since it's all broken bifaces, tools, flakes, and quarry waste, but it's pretty cool stuff. (The guys in the pictures know a bit about Clovis material.)

 

[mainejman]

Lots of mind boggling artifacts...I was once offered to pan gold and just couldn't wrap my mind around searching for something that wasn't artifact related.Keep them coming they all are so very aspiring....mjm

 

[Icewing]

Ive not found anythimy nearly as cool as some of the other users have posted, but this is one of my favorite Native American finds. It has a vein of quartz running through it near the tip.

 

[tamrock]

Rare to me is finding any complete unbroken artifact. This assembly of points mounted on this flat 16" x 9.5" sandstone grinding stone I found broken. I first found one piece and notice the thinness in it and could see it was part of something. Then I noticed another piece close by. Finally I found all 5 pieces and glued it together. It was also used on the backside some to grind. All the artifacts on it came from the same area I found this grind stone. To me it represent a time in the 1980s when just me and a Blue Heeler named Lucky would spend many hours out in Pinõn Forest along the upper Arkansas River, just simply enjoying the great outdoors.

 

[Old Pueblo]

My rarest personal Indian artifact finds can be found here:

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/n...artifacts/557787-bucket-lister-scratched.html

I consider the shell #1 and the red thing #2.

 

[Old Pueblo]

Here is my top find. It's been posted here before. - I found this clay pipe several years ago in a creek in S.W. Georgia. I doubt I'll ever top it. But, I'm going to keep trying!

So is this thing Native American? It looks pretty amazing to me! Id love to know more about it and the people who made it.

 

[Old Pueblo]

Ive not found anythimy nearly as cool as some of the other users have posted, but this is one of my favorite Native American finds. It has a vein of quartz running through it near the tip.

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That thing is a beauty, by the way. You dont see a lot of big pieces like that out here, it seems.

 

[Old Pueblo]

Rare to me is finding any complete unbroken artifact. This assembly of points mounted on this flat 16" x 9.5" sandstone grinding stone I found broken. I first found one piece and notice the thinness in it and could see it was part of something. Then I noticed another piece close by. Finally I found all 5 pieces and glued it together. It was also used on the backside some to grind. All the artifacts on it came from the same area I found this grind stone. To me it represent a time in the 1980s when just me and a Blue Heeler named Lucky would spend many hours out in Pinõn Forest along the upper Arkansas River, just simply enjoying the great outdoors.

Nice glue job. I see a lot of broken metates where I live, but never seem to find the missing pieces.

 

[tamrock]

Nice glue job. I see a lot of broken metates where I live, but never seem to find the missing pieces.

I believe this slab was used more for it's abrasive properties. I found the pieces amongst a high bank deposit of alluvium river rocks, I believe it was being used to shape certain stones into cleats or axe heads? The type of rock this grinding slab is did not come from the area I found it. It is a form sedimentary stone, whereas the geology all around the area I did find it is all platonic granite mountains. The upper Arkansas River valley was visited by tribes that would come there from many regions from the North, South, East and West to hunt, fish and gather Pinõn nuts in the summer months. I myself was a gatherer of pinõn nuts during the years the trees would produce them.