Walked a long long way today

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I went back to my creek where I found the last things I posted, and went down stream (something I don't do a lot) I always like to walk up stream so as to keep the water clear. I found some pottery and some bone and then came up on a 5ft gator. So I thought I had gone far enough down stream I was getting close to the swamp flatlands if a gator was in the creek. So I took out across country, I knew where another creek bed was and had never been in it. Found the new creek bed and it was dry has a bone, but then I noticed it looked like someone had been digging artifacts out of the creek. Check out the pics.View attachment 863767View attachment 863768View attachment 863770But that's not artifact hunters ,that is what wild hogs will do to the creek, your yard, your food plot, those bad boys can do some digging (wish I could train one to dig Ha Ha). Found some things but not nothing to call the newspaper about. Found a lot of fossilized bone and teeth( not sure what the teeth are from) 1 was a jaw bone that had fossilized and the others not sure of, but they are all fossilized , I will have to show them to my buddy he is the bone man. 1 fossilized bone looks like a tool, I am not sure of it so any thoughts on that I will take(be nice).The flat bone with the point is what I think mite be a tool.View attachment 863776View attachment 863777View attachment 863779View attachment 863780View attachment 863776I may be reaching but 1 bone looks to have cut marks on it , it does have rodent marks but also cut marks.:dontknow:View attachment 863794View attachment 863795Now this big boy I have no idea about it at all , just to say it's fossilizedView attachment 863796View attachment 863801I did find 2 chipped tools and what I think and I say what I think is a cooking ball, never found one before so I ask for your thoughts on that also. It's not rock and it's very hard.:icon_scratch:View attachment 863804View attachment 863808View attachment 863810I also found some nice potteryView attachment 863812View attachment 863813I must say again I walked a long long way today, I was so tired when I got home I had to go back to my Jeep and get my butt off the seat. My wife says I'm like a junkie when it comes to artifacts of any kind, if you know what I mean.
 

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Thanks for posting. Nice finds, I like the flat bone w/point & the red scraper :)
 

Fantastic...I yearn to get bac to Montana and search our bogs for the Buff bones the winters heave have brought forth!

That one piece has to be a tool....awl?
 

really cool finds. I don't think we have fossils in NC but I could be wrong.
 

Id say its a Awl. Looks like you got your fix, lol for artifacts. Nothing like pulling it from the ground no other feeling like it. Every time I pull one its like finding my first one all over again. I really like the pottery you find. It looks allot thicker than the pieces I find. I hope to go to the creek soon if hunting season hasnt started yet? Maybe I might be able to get one last creek in Ill find out Monday. If not Ill go walk a field. HH, rock
 

i think you can say "yes" it is a cooking stone, especially if it is ceramic. artifact junkie is better than the other kind.....
 

Monster very cool finds. Hunting with gators lurking about is nuts lol.
 

Monster very cool finds. Hunting with gators lurking about is nuts lol.
The gators don't worry me so much has the wild hogs, some of them have razor sharp tusk 3 to 6in long and can weigh on the average 150 to 600 lbs. They are so hard to control:BangHead:, they have 2 litters a year, I will mess up a perfect deer hunt just take one out no matter the size. That's why I carry a 28in bayonet, a sharp flippin pole/ mop handle and my Ruger 44 mag. pistol. I think I could hold off almost anything with that combo.
 

he is smilin at ya
 

Gators nest this time of the yr and thats what I thought when I looked at your pics but hogs is a good guess.
 

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