sept 7th dig!

[Treefrog]

dug and sifted for about 6 hrs today to find these!

 

[Tnmountains]

Good day I bet you are sore by now. I hit the creek and nada nothing.One of your looks to be what they call a bottleneck.You get done with that shelter and find out all the types it will give you a lot of info on habitation. Nice finds for sure. Think there is more there?

 

[Treefrog]

yes i am beat. ya i think there will be several more there, ive only dug about 30% of what i plan on digging. i dont know enough about the id of the points to know what im into yet. im documenting everything in pics so i can look back 1 day and know.

 

[Tnmountains]

Shrink your pics down one size when you post. I know what would be fun is to go back when you are done posting and lets get an I.D on each one and time frame then you can finish the post with a time frame. Its so cool its like digging up a house to see who lived there. It will be good documentation for those artifacts. What you think?
Keep us updated I have yours tagged for alerts.
Later
TnMtns

 

[abarnard]

Great finds to say the least. Must have been fun to find those tools and points. Great finds, and thanks for sharing

 

[Tnmountains]

Had not heard from you in a while and was wondering if you had finished digging your treasure from the shelter? Lots of rain for sure.
TnMtns

 

[Treefrog]

not finished yet, been there a couple more times but not found much those times. going on oct 12th all day with help to try to go through a lot of it.
been busy with my work and not had many days free to dig.
will post soon as something comes out of the ground!!!

 

[Tnmountains]

Did you confirm your Paleo piece yet?

 

[Treefrog]

well ive not had it looked at by a pro but several people ive showed it too thinks it is a beaver lake.

 

[pickaway]

Way to go nice finds...

 

[trevmma]

man i have permission to dig a creek a good size one, that has rock shelters all over it, a lot are in flood plain after a very heavy flood would that still be good

 

[Tnmountains]

man i have permission to dig a creek a good size one, that has rock shelters all over it, a lot are in flood plain after a very heavy flood would that still be good

Depends upon a couple things Trevmma.
1.If they were used.
2. If its laying down silt everything is still there.
3. If its washing them out it may all be gone or in the creeks
If they flash flood the ancients knew that as well and may not have used them.
I say go check them out and sink some holes if you hit flint and charcoal we look forward to seeing your treasure. Maybe you will hit a good one like treefrog

 

[Treefrog]

Re: sept 7th dig! new find!

spent 3 hours today digging and it paid off!

what would you call this one Tn_mountains?

 

[Treefrog]

i think it is a Hamilton Stemmed

 

[Tnmountains]

Hamilton stemmed no doubt. So that is a way later period point 3000 -1000 BP. So maybe they used that shelter off and on for say around 10,000 years?
Thats way cool. Next time you go get some more inside pictures for us. Not many people get to see what these shelters looked like. You have another good site and congratulations on your Hamilton its a nice one. Hope you keep this post going as long as your last one. Its great.
HH
TnMtns

 

[Treefrog]

Re: sept 7th dig! new pics

ok i went back monday for 4 hrs and dug dug dug.
came up with 4 more points and a cool stone with some wild designs and color pattern, i think may have been used for rubbing hides or grinding something. see what u guys think..
also Tn Mtns, check out the brown/black point like we have talked about.

 

[Tnmountains]

Great workmanship on all of them. I see that brown and it has me baffled. It has me puzzled now as to where the source is? Looks like a nice bottleneck. I have several like that from around here. You are making some great finds. Hard work is paying off.
Am enjoying seeing what you get from that rock shelter.