Nice beach find yesterday!

Flathead25 · Nov 24, 2016

Found this yesterday along with a few pottery pieces while walking the beach. Still pretty new to this, but I'll say it's a Morrow Mountain.

Ran into a woman walking the beach and she asked what I was looking for. She sort of chuckled when I told her arrowheads and said, "good luck!". Not 5 minutes later I picked this off the sand of a heavily traveled beach!

CaptEsteban · Nov 24, 2016

SUPER NICE !

rock · Nov 24, 2016

Beautiful quartzite point!

sandchip · Nov 24, 2016

Fantastic! Good looking point. I especially like the "wet" shot.

NCPeaches · Nov 24, 2016

Awesome find! that's funny about the lady and then the find, love it!

ptsofnc · Nov 25, 2016

Man! That is one of the best I've seen! Great needle tip! Glad you had the last laugh.

SCrocks · Nov 25, 2016

That is a smoker! Congrats

Mrdigz · Nov 27, 2016

WOw that's a sweat one!!

GaRebel1861 · Nov 27, 2016

That's an awesome find. I've never had any luck at the beach for points. You pulled a nice one. Congratulations!

quito · Nov 27, 2016

Nice one!
to bad you couldn't have caught up to that lady and really gave her something to chuckle about

Flathead25 · Nov 27, 2016

quito said:
Nice one!
to bad you couldn't have caught up to that lady and really gave her something to chuckle about

Thanks everyone for the comments! I did think about catching up to that lady...but it took me a good 10 minutes to see straight and catch my breath after finding this one!

I went back to the same spot the next day and took a closer look at a "boulder" I had been avoiding when pulling the boat up on the beach. I still can't believe I didn't notice it before, but it looks to me like a pestle! After cleaning off the oysters, I noticed another line ground into the opposite side of it. Can anyone help clue me into what the straight grinding line was used for?

creekhunter · Nov 28, 2016

Very cool finds, I think the straight groove is considered a shaft straightener

crj1968 · Nov 29, 2016

Man that is sweet. Reminds me of a show I saw on TV. Basically where people buy their own islands off the east coast. The old lady was walking around her new island and picked up a point a lot like yours there. Great find !

monsterrack · Nov 29, 2016

The point is fine and the grinding stone is really nice. It's JMO but the groove would be for shaping bone . Great find, I would hunt that area some more. :icon_thumright:

The Grim Reaper · Nov 29, 2016

Great looking Point.

coosakid · Nov 29, 2016

Pretty cool find ....... I've never thought about an Indian at the beach...

crj1968 · Nov 29, 2016

coosakid said:
Pretty cool find ....... I've never thought about an Indian at the beach...

Anywhere there is a food source...kind of like modern man.

Flathead25 · Nov 30, 2016

crj1968 said:
Anywhere there is a food source...kind of like modern man.

Just think, the east coast shore line was tens...if not hundreds of feet below what we know today. Someone told me recently, "the really good stuff is 50 miles offshore!" I figure our beaches now are just the eroding "high grounds" of the ancient past.

ptsofnc · Dec 1, 2016

Flathead25 said:
Just think, the east coast shore line was tens...if not hundreds of feet below what we know today. Someone told me recently, "the really good stuff is 50 miles offshore!" I figure our beaches now are just the eroding "high grounds" of the ancient past.

If you believe the archeologists, at the peak of the last ice age (around 18000 bc), the sea level was as much as 450 feet lower than today. Yes, the NC coastline would have been as much as 50 miles more east. But then global warming kicked in and the ice started melting. Don't think we people started the big melt...then. Warming has been going on a long time.