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Yeah, it was all one big happy hunting ground back then. No state lines, no army base, no I-24, and I bet those Injuns were some happy campers. All the streams around here that have old campsites either drain into the Red River, or flow west into the Cumberland at LBL. I would say that all the Indians were pretty much connected around these parts.

Might do that if you'll promise me that Dorf won't come looking for ya.

Who,s dorf????

That is a fantastic looking blade Slumlord! I have looked for several hours the last couple of days and found a double handful of flakes and broken pottery pieces but nothing that even resembles a worked piece of flint. It is kind of frustrating....There have been a lot of points found where I look, but they are few and far between.

Ask him about how he found a big Benton blade one day 20 ft off a road.
Hahahahaa!!!!

Dont be frustrated with flakes.

We spent time of our time today doing some spot checks on new areas. We sometimes hypothesize about certain geographical features and will go do a some field truthing. Usually just a wandering bird walk to look for frquency of debitage.

If we find flakes, we make a mental bookmark and come back at a later date. I told renegade when we burn out the main spots, we will fall back on these areas to grid them better. Mind you, we're finding flint flakes in 'pure dirt' there is no other competing media to visually distract. So if within acres and acres of brown soil and scattered flint flakes, it's a given that there's artifacts present.

We've done random walks thru virgin ground and come up with some fantastic pieces. Mainly because all of our competition only hunts the most likely know spots. I.E. = near the bend in the creek; on the bluff...yadda yadda yadda

We have some lazy other artifact hunters that we know and all they do hit the main spots, find a few brokes and complain. lol

Reminds me of the difference between a cat and a dog with a piece of cheese.

It's on the ground...if a dog, you point to it the dog will find it
A cat....will just stare at your finger

My fav was "those two guys" who walked out in the field and had a pow-wow for five mins about how they were gonna conduct their search for the day. They broke and took their paths, I went over to where they were standing and found a 3-1/2" pink Eva amongst all their foot prints and tootsie roll wrappers.

That’s cool. What’s that made of W4B?

Sharkey and fozzy bear ?????
Dueling Janitors with 4 yr degrees

Neither had a clue
Look down while arrowhead hunting......

Harpoon?
Ivory???
Bone???

bone harpoon I think

Cool. I figured bone but thought it could be ivory. Neat find and I appreciate all the cool contributions to the thread.

Where I'm hunting is what we think was a couple of camp sites. They are about 300 yards apart and both have given up some good points . The land is sandy with water close by. The two areas where we find the flint are relatively small. Each is maybe 50 yards square. Outside that area we don't find flint at all.
We never know what is going to show up next. Along with the points and buckets of flint flakes we have found Hammer stones, a couple of buttons from the late 1700's, a piece of pipe stem and a game piece that looks like a hard clay marble.

I had a spot like that on the Savannah River.

Could find arrowheads, grapeshot, large cal conical rifle bullets, small glass stoppered medication bottles, large cents, military buttons, colonial pipe stems, and a other relic hunters we knew found a couple of cannon balls.


Had a second spot near Tybee and Skidaway Island, a highway cut; could find Megladon teeth.

These 2 little bird points (this'un and the mid above) appear to be made from the same rock