Not an artifact, but it is something I found one year while walking a creek in the woods in mid Missouri artifact hunting. It is a huge piece of petrified wood, weighs over 250 pounds.
When I found it I had to roll it about 75 yards to get it to the road where I was parked only to find I couldn't dead lift it high enough to get it in the high pickup bed due to its weight, I had to hide it in the road ditch and go get a friend to help me lift it and get it home.
It was a small stone bottom creek, I had found points in it in the past. I found the petrified log laid across the creek forming a small waterfall. I had learned to dig at the base of small waterfalls for points that get caught in the hole made by the falling water over the years, points wash down the creek by hard rains causing high water and rapid currents, while digging I realized the waterfall had been formed by the petrified log.
I placed a quarter on left side for size reference, it is 27 inches long 14 inches wide and 47 inches in circumference.
When I found it I had to roll it about 75 yards to get it to the road where I was parked only to find I couldn't dead lift it high enough to get it in the high pickup bed due to its weight, I had to hide it in the road ditch and go get a friend to help me lift it and get it home.
It was a small stone bottom creek, I had found points in it in the past. I found the petrified log laid across the creek forming a small waterfall. I had learned to dig at the base of small waterfalls for points that get caught in the hole made by the falling water over the years, points wash down the creek by hard rains causing high water and rapid currents, while digging I realized the waterfall had been formed by the petrified log.
I placed a quarter on left side for size reference, it is 27 inches long 14 inches wide and 47 inches in circumference.
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