Oh Boy!! Tides out !!

[Lone Star]

Flinty Dudes and Dudesses, Got a few of the older shell middens exposed with the last front. Here's some of the goodies out of a small area from last year. Lone Star

 

[Flintfinder of Mo.]

Good Luck....

 

[Tnmountains]

Gotta love water hunting when the bottom falls out. Bet you might have a whole pot there. Enjoyed the pictures and nice finds.

 

[SOHIO]

looks like a fun place to hunt.

 

[Th3rty7]

That quicksand can get kind of hairy sometimes. Nice haul of artifacts you pulled out of the midden.

 

[mad.co.walker]

dont you just love it when the water drops. watch out for sink holes. been there and done that !!!!!!!!!!!!! nice finds. !!!!!!!!

 

[pickaway]

Nice finds and pics...

 

[Lone Star]

Hey thanks ya'll. The shell mound tops that are exposed are only about 2% of whats there under the mud.. The gooey stuff is about 2 inches to a foot thick depending. ( mud under water acts as a self-leveler, filling all the valleys and high spots) I probbed the area about 30 years ago and found how far out they ran. I even lost my boots in the process when I found a bigggggggg hole between shell piles and sank to my hips.
Every square foot is loaded with bone, pottery ,and the tiniest flint debitage you ever did see. The shell midden is resting on the Texas Grey Clay foundation. In some spots the shell is three feet deep below the mean water level, and I've found points and tools from the archaic forward here. This area is spread out pretty good with an average projection from the shoreline about 30 feet and it's about 400 feet long.
Here's some of the first points I found there years ago. Thanky Lone Star

 

[Produce Guy]

Is this lake travis?

 

[chong2]

i couldnt imagine putting that brown pottery together.... butting black and white with obvious lines together drives me mad lol.
Oh and dont give ur site away

 

[mad.co.walker]

looks to me like you have a pretty defined campsite there. keep us posted and be careful. i sank up to my armpits one time. thank the lord i had a stick with me to keep me from becomming an artifact myself someday !!!!!!!!! maybe take a friend along.

 

[Theakiki]

WOW!

 

[Tnmountains]

Be careful digging out there. They go nuts here if they catch you digging the shell pits here. Some of that stuff is 10 feet deep. Looks like you found some dandys though.

 

[Lone Star]

Flinty ones, Thanks again everyone. No its not Lake Travis. It's a bayou shorline about 4 miles from in from Galveston Bay. The north wind habitualy lowers the tide with the high pressure and winds.
The usual course of action is to pitchfork an underwater section of the shell and goo and let nature do the rest. With the rise and fall of the tide and wave action of the boats most everything encased by the shell clumps finds its way to the edge of the tide line as the clumps of shells and snot breaks apart. It actually works pretty well for me as I can go by every few days and see if there's anything new. Lone Star

 

[Get-the-point]

That quicksand can get kind of hairy sometimes. Nice haul of artifacts you pulled out of the midden.

Ah just do what Bear Grylls would do and stop, drop, and roll................GTP.............lol....

 

[ohio]

Very nice little points. Good post!

Chuck