Natural and possible man made artifacts

[compound digger]

Does this look like something that I should seek professional help with? Top right is platinum!

 

[WoodsDigger]

lol! What?

Everyone finds a fried rock and thinks it's a meteorite in this business. Including me.

 

[WoodsDigger]

Go to Amazon and look at Obsidian arrowhead s. I bought one , gift to grandson, a reproduction but fascinating none the less.

 

[Older The Better]

I’m not seeing a lot of Indian artifacts but you definitely have post contact stuff… wether it’s 1500 or 1900 I cant say but i think you’re in the right mindset as far as being curious and enjoying the hunt and trying to decipher what you find, sometimes it can feel like people are bursting your bubble but I would assume most are rooting for you to keep going and post back with a true stunner of a find… hope your dad was right and there is something special there, you just haven’t found the key artifacts yet. Personally I keep nails and things just in case other things come along, say you find some Spanish coins and a bit of chain mail among the nails and buckle bits… all of a sudden those square nails and scraps become a lot more interesting

 

[compound digger]

I’m not seeing a lot of Indian artifacts but you definitely have post contact stuff… wether it’s 1500 or 1900 I cant say but i think you’re in the right mindset as far as being curious and enjoying the hunt and trying to decipher what you find, sometimes it can feel like people are bursting your bubble but I would assume most are rooting for you to keep going and post back with a true stunner of a find… hope your dad was right and there is something special there, you just haven’t found the key artifacts yet. Personally I keep nails and things just in case other things come along, say you find some Spanish coins and a bit of chain mail among the nails and buckle bits… all of a sudden those square nails and scraps become a lot more interesting

Definitely I keep everything just in case! I was stunned by the possibility of a 33.5g piece of gold filled platinum. See I think it is platinum that was thought to be unripe silver. I’m gonna keep swinging!

 

[compound digger]

I’m not seeing a lot of Indian artifacts but you definitely have post contact stuff… wether it’s 1500 or 1900 I cant say but i think you’re in the right mindset as far as being curious and enjoying the hunt and trying to decipher what you find, sometimes it can feel like people are bursting your bubble but I would assume most are rooting for you to keep going and post back with a true stunner of a find… hope your dad was right and there is something special there, you just haven’t found the key artifacts yet. Personally I keep nails and things just in case other things come along, say you find some Spanish coins and a bit of chain mail among the nails and buckle bits… all of a sudden those square nails and scraps become a lot more interesting

So what about stuff like this? Seems to be what your talking about kinda.

 

[Tnmountains]

No Native American artifacts in this post. Even if you found flakes or debitage does not necessarily make it a site worth investigating.

 

[compound digger]

No Native American artifacts in this post. Even if you found flakes or debitage does not necessarily make it a site worth investigating.

Ok thanks. It’s strange platinum seems pretty significant! Maybe like the Spanish I’ll toss it back to ripen!

 

[compound digger]

Ok thanks. It’s strange platinum seems pretty significant! Maybe like the Spanish I’ll toss it back to ripen

do you not believe this is unrefined platinum and gold?

 

[LUE-Hawn]

Hello, I thought I would get into the fray. You could possibles be holding Electrum as it does have both silver and gold contained within. It’s alchemical sigil looks like the capital letter Z with a cross bar with two circular dots on each end of the cross bar.

Bests in Treasure

LUE-Hawn

 

[compound digger]

Hello, I thought I would get into the fray. You could possibles be holding Electrum as it does have both silver and gold contained within. It’s alchemical sigil looks like the capital letter Z with a cross bar with two circular dots on each end of the cross bar.

Bests in Treasure

LUE-Hawn

Acid test confirmed it’s not silver! Gold test negative for gold it is only visible in small amounts. But It did test positive for PGM's

 

[LUE-Hawn]

Best to get an assay on it

Bests in Treasure

LUE-Hawn

 

[compound digger]

Acid test confirmed it’s not silver! Gold test negative for gold it is only visible in small amounts. But It did test positive for PGM's

Best to get an assay on it

Bests in Treasure

LUE-Hawn

I most certainly will be! Just have to figure all that out I’ve never had anything assayed!