What do I have?

[CL_Pino_MarineSGTVet]

I just started hunting artifacts recently cause I saw something strange in an area on my dad's farm that has a history of many arrowheads but we don't plow or anything so over the past 25 yrs or so it was little things here and there......but now that I started digging below an over hanging rock cliff I've came up with small to large red and black painted stones of all sizes that still retain beautiful color, and scrpers to what looks like celts and axes...ALL PAINTED RED WITH BLACK MARKINGS. I've also found MANY effigy stones mainly birds and Mountain lions carved and worked into pieces from nickel size to bigger than both hands. My best pieces so far are a stone pipe that has a red bird painted inside (told it was a Thunderbird) the piece is all rock and I haven't found anything clay....I also have broken pipe pieces, an unfinished pipe (I think I can't get mud out of hole and don't think the holes connected before it was lost or something....and I'm wary of cleaning all these pieces to much. My other best pieces are what looks like a small medicine bowl the size of maybe able to hold two or three tablespoons of medicine....All stone.... that has a spout like thing smoothed into it with a bird effigy on it..on the bottom you can see heat/fire has been exposed to it... I will have pics shortly as soon as my wife wakes up to take them. This was all found in two areas on the farm... I live in Fayette County, WV close to the Gauley River...from the top of our mountain you can see the walls of the gauley....I'm guessing there must have been many panthers around (since so close to cliffs of Gauley) due to SO MANY PANTHER EFFIGY STONES I've found from quarter size to dinner plate size. Pics will be posted ASAP.

 

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[rock]

Welcome to the site but a pic would help very much. Make sure you use the marco setting so it will be visible for us otherwise it will come out blurry.

 

[flinginairos]

Can't wait to see the pics! I am in WV as well. I am familiar with the Gauley river but in Nicholas county


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[Diggin-N-Dumps]

lol...Are you really asking what you have with a verbal description?

 

[The Grim Reaper]

This should be interesting.

 

[larson1951]

hey hey cl_pino
welcome to the site

we are anxious to see the pictures of what you are describing.........if you need help posting images just ask and I will help you

 

[jamey]

got me interested too.would love to see some pics thanks

 

[unclemac]

red and black are the two most easy colors for indians to make and use so there is that for you...

 

[The Grim Reaper]

red and black are the two most easy colors for indians to make and use so there is that for you...

They are also two that occur naturally quite often.

 

[rock]

And no pics I see. I love it when school lets out for the summer.

 

[NC field hunter]

I just started hunting artifacts recently cause I saw something strange in an area on my dad's farm that has a history of many arrowheads but we don't plow or anything so over the past 25 yrs or so it was little things here and there......but now that I started digging below an over hanging rock cliff I've came up with small to large red and black painted stones of all sizes that still retain beautiful color, and scrpers to what looks like celts and axes...ALL PAINTED RED WITH BLACK MARKINGS. I've also found MANY effigy stones mainly birds and Mountain lions carved and worked into pieces from nickel size to bigger than both hands. My best pieces so far are a stone pipe that has a red bird painted inside (told it was a Thunderbird) the piece is all rock and I haven't found anything clay....I also have broken pipe pieces, an unfinished pipe (I think I can't get mud out of hole and don't think the holes connected before it was lost or something....and I'm wary of cleaning all these pieces to much. My other best pieces are what looks like a small medicine bowl the size of maybe able to hold two or three tablespoons of medicine....All stone.... that has a spout like thing smoothed into it with a bird effigy on it..on the bottom you can see heat/fire has been exposed to it... I will have pics shortly as soon as my wife wakes up to take them. This was all found in two areas on the farm... I live in Fayette County, WV close to the Gauley River...from the top of our mountain you can see the walls of the gauley....I'm guessing there must have been many panthers around (since so close to cliffs of Gauley) due to SO MANY PANTHER EFFIGY STONES I've found from quarter size to dinner plate size. Pics will be posted ASAP.

The Gauley.... I'll have night mares tonight. I almost got killed on the upper Gauley. No joke!! Pillow rock year 2002. First rafting trip ever, I was hung over (actually still drunk) I got stuck in the toilet bowl by VW rock. When they pulled me in, I burped 3 gulps of water up. Thank God for my 3rd lung. That is a dangerous river when the dam is opened.

 

[yakker]

Wish he'd come back w/ come pics already! Interesting intro... but now... crickets. (sad face) Yak

 

[CL_Pino_MarineSGTVet]

OK, I got the pics.

 

[CL_Pino_MarineSGTVet]

Here's the Thunderbird pipe. The wings wrap up the sides....

 

[unclemac]

thems rocks with a natural oxidation patina, but don't give up just yet..the area you describe sounds promising.

 

[quito]

Pretty much what I envisioned.

Welcome to the forum sir, but I am pretty sure you have a bunch of natural stones and a healthy imagination.

 

[Peyton Manning]

wondering just why they would paint a rock? Not seeing it

 

[CL_Pino_MarineSGTVet]

Here's sum pics of a rock with a snake effigy you'll notice on side, on the bottom it has a buck head carved and from the front you can see a deer....focus on eye. I really need a new camera. You'll also see one of my better Panther effigy heads.... and something else that I can't tell what it is.... Looks like a buffalo. The snake stone has sooooo much detail and other small carving in it....the pics do it no justice.... The buck head is also carved with other round symbols but I can't tell very well. I'll post more later. Oh, and no it's not natural red/black on the rocks.... The ones exposed (not under overhang are faded and up close you can see the black was applied on top.....

 

[rock]

It looks like sandstone and natural concentrations and rocks. Sorry all natural. Keep looking. Checkout pics from the site here so you know what to look for.

 

[twiasp]

Love Rocks.