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Let's see some points you've found
Otoe Bow:
Every one of those has a story. Really makes you wonder, don't it. I've only found one or two in my life, but to be honest, I've really not been hunting much until now. I did get one from my granddad's garden. I'll try to dig it out and post later. There used to be a wheat bottom about two miles away that after it was plowed, there'd always be folks out in the middle walking around on the highest spot near the creek that runs through it. One day I asked my dad what they were doing, and he said they were looking for "artifacts". Now it's a hay field so it rarely sees a plow. I may ask the owner if I can look around.
Keep posting guys. I love this kind of stuff. Great points.
Otoe
sailordad:
i personnaly have never found a point,dont know where to look for them where i live.
when i was in 6th grade,i had friend that had moved here from indiana and he had coffee cans full of points and a couple of tomahawk heads he had found one his dads farmland back in indiana. didnt think much of it back then other than "cool,you thing they were ever shot into a white man?"
wish i had all those coffee cans now that i found this primitive thing that i've become addicted to.
FlintWalker:
Cowboy, they ain't laying everywhere. What you're looking at is hundreds of miles of walking. It's no problem to find low grade woodland type points. I looked over a 3 acre patch a few years ago and at the end of the day had found 60 complete points and not one of them worth over $1. That field had never been plowed and was apparently a camp site. I put all of them in a case and the landowner paid me $60 for them. He was as happy to buy them, as I was to find them. I've since looked in that field and never came away with more than a couple.
Here's a few more. What do you make of the fluted piece? I think it was gonna be a Cumberland, but broke somewhere in the process of making it.
BTW Hillbilly, my favorite material is quartzite. I rarely see real nice flaking on them but have seen a few that were super nice. I know a guy that has a big sandy you can read through.
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Pat B:
Most of these were found in coastal South Carolina near Hilton Head, Is. There is no natural stone in that area so all the lithics came from elsewhere, either as raw materials or probably preforms. We even found obsidian blade points. Some were found at a leveled 60 acres on a bluff above the Colleton River and some from a river swamp hunting club. The whelk shells were used as drills. The center column had a natural spiral to it. The mummified rat I found in a bag of grass seed and the false teeth I found in an old junk pile along my driveway. ;D
There are cedar hummocks throughout the salt marsh areas that have shell rings on them and as the river cuts away at the banks the shell rings are exposed. I never found points near the shell rings but lots of potters shards, some bone needles and antler tine pressure flakers (or oyster knives ;D). We always found oyster shells, muscle shells and clam shells along with the whelks as part of these rings. I believe they were basically dump areas. The Natives would sit around eating shell fish and throwing the shells, along with other "trash" over their shoulders. Pat
ps. The small pot, a prized possession, was given to me by my Aunt Sue. When she was in high school her boy friend gave it to her. If she were still alive she would be near 90. Sue said it came from near the Neches River in Texas.
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lowell:
Here are the bits and pieces I have found over the years. Each drawer is a year of walking the fields here. The small white point I'm pointing at was my first find and found it in a hay field!!
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