Looking for some help for a beginner

[bradshaw]

Hello all! I am new to treasure hunting and I searched a friend's freshly plowed field in south jersey where he was told by his grandfather that there was an old Indian camp there. He has a huge collection of arrow heads which I didn't find any of but I did find what I believe are several grinding stones, hand hammers, scrapers and other things. These two things looked unusual to me if anyone has any ideas of what they might be. The third I believe is a gastrolith but it fit nicely in my hand and looks like someone may have found it and used it also as a tool with what looks like some scaring on the end of it?




It's a little tough to see in the photos but I thought this looked like a birds face when I saw it





And I never knew what a gastrolith was but grabbed this rock because it was so unusual looking and the smoothest rock I have ever picked up. Did some searching but I believe that is what this may be

 

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[newnan man]

Welcome. Those items are all just rocks. Keep looking!

 

[bradshaw]

That's why I haven't found anything else like it. lol Thanks!

 

[angelito1]

Welcome to Tnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

[Garscale]

Virtually every first time posts natural stones until they reach a deeper understanding of how artifacts were made. Don't be discouraged.

Now that qualified... The first rock does show signs that it could possibly have been pecked into shape. I see what could possibly be an eye on it. Itstillmay be natural but I would have brought it home.

 

[A2coins]

Good to ask thats how you learn you will find some.Seems with all the other finds you mentioned theres some good artifacts there......Tommy

 

[A2coins]

Welcomed to tnet

 

[bradshaw]

Thanks everyone and I'm not discouraged at all. I want to learn anything I can. Plus a few hours walking around outside is always better than sitting around in the house. Here is one other that looked out of place to me. Smooth in three sides. The bottom looks like a plow blade chipped it off.

 

[Garscale]

The last stone is without a doubt An attifact. Likely. Used to grind against a metates. It also could have been used as a morter.

 

[firemanphob]

Welcome from Indiana

 

[bradshaw]

So I may not have come away empty handed after all. Thanks again everybody and hi to all

 

[old digger]

Welcome to tnet!

The one sample at the bottom of your first post looks like the gastroliths that I find in my area. And I have also found them used as hammer stones, and also utilized as choppers and knives by the different clans and tribes that frequented the area.




Here are a few select gastrolith's that I have found.

It is interesting how many of the stones are of jasper and quartz.

 

[bradshaw]

Very cool, old digger!! The butterscotch colored one is from the earlier pic. The white and red stones were all in about a 5'x5' square. It just rained on them and can see how polished they are. More so than a stream worn rock. I'm not sure what they are but they looked cool.

 

[old digger]

The area that I am finding these gastrolith's is where there was a dinosaur nursery site. You can find these stones scattered around a short distance away from where the nursery was. In the nursery site I have found many coprolites. It is my assumption that when the parent animals returned to feed the young they would regurgitate their food along with the gastrlolith's. I guess the those dinosaurs were quite particular in which stones would do their job.

 

[bradshaw]

I had to look up "coprolites". Unfortunately what I came across in that department was soft. Lol There is a big dinosaur site close to me but that's not where I was. Something else to keep my eyes open for

 

[old digger]

Here are some insitu.







This is what the landscape looks like.