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I’ll have to go dig through the lost lake bucket

This is the Benton bucket 😃

Great thread. Here’s a few I e found since I’ve been here.

We never find pottery stuff.

Not alot of woodland or Mississippian sites left around here to hunt.

Got a spot down behind the house along the cumberland .
Where I have found actual Mississippian bow shot arrowheads.
Inch to 1.5 inches long, thin and finely serrated.
I have also found a real nice dalton base down their also .
Plenty of archaic stuff.
Long term multiple site thru the ages.
Kinda hoping they plow it for tobacco this year.
Wanna get slumlord down to it.
Sensory overload for the eyes with the amount of flakes on the ground.
Actually found an obsidian point down their.
Aint none of that occuring east of the rockies.

Trade routes lot more extensive than what people think they were back then.
UT Knoxville has actually been able to gas spectrograph samples ofvobsidian points found in Tn and identify the mountain/ volcano itvcame from in the west.

There is so much pottery here that it’s impossible to walk without stepping on it. I have bags full of broken painted pieces and could fill one every time I go out if I wanted. I found a hair bead a stones throw from that pot in the picture. I think that area was a massive camp with mostly women and children. Never found a single arrow head there. The other place where I found the two arrow heads is littered with flakes and quite a lot of pottery shards as well.

Slumlord thought he found one of those big bowl grinding stones.
Thing was huge.
It wasn't one.
Woulda been a major score to us for sure.
We just dont find much stuff under 3500 yrs old.
He got me into the hobby.
I gave him a clovis the day I found it, 2 days before he went under the knife for his kidney transplant.
Right thing to do.

Good on you. Karma will repay...

That pot is a heartbreaker Dryfly. I’m assuming you glued it all back together? We find a little pottery here, very crude, thick, and no designs or paint. Have a big sack of pretty pieces I’ve found in the SW but never anything whole. A buddy I worked with who is from Arizona said he found several pots on overhangs as a kid and just left all of them since he had no interest in them.

Dam Hunts Thats a nice clear one! wish there were some around here to hunt! Id swap you a Michigan Petoskey Stone for it! one I found at the beach on lake Michigan and Polished! Pm if intrested!

Like that red drill!

Actually it’s still out there. I covered it back up and left it where I found it. It was in pretty bad shape. Later on I did go back a couple times to try to find it again with no luck.

Those are beautiful!

Lots of nice materials in H22,s finds all the time.

Knocked out a couple more yesterday between rain showers. One from black and another from red obsidian. Tried something new for the pic submerging them in a cake tin filled with water. Seems to eliminate a lot of the glassy glare I normally got in past sunlight pics. Larger of the two (red) is right at 6" by an actual ruler measurement. Second is 4 1/8 and a quarter for scale.



Sold one mounted in a shadow box recently for a local rifle range fundraiser. Don't know what it actually generated, but an acquaintance said he backed out of the bidding when it hit $200. Takes a bit more time, but I've also been knocking out a few matched pairs lately. The first is a piece of cake, the second takes a lot more effort.

Getting low on rock, so I need to get out and scour the country for a day. Just another reason to get out though.

Have a good one,

That red material is incredible. I would love to find something made from that stuff.

We are blessed to be somewhat close to the Alibates flint quarry and therefore find lots of points and tool made from it. The red white and blues in Alibates make for some stunning pieces.

TheKid:

Yes. One also gets quite a variety of color when those flints are heat treated. No flint in this region at all, but do have a bit of chert. Tough to work, but a little heat can bring it around. Truck loads of obsidian though and it's the easiest of all the materials to work. Have lots of black cobbles in my back 40, but nothing much bigger than softball size. Need to travel a bit for larger and more colorful chunks.

Amazing work 1Minute.

You all find cool artifacts

Springcove: Thanks. So far just a hobby with near all simply going into cake tins the kid will likely throw out when my time comes. A good one for me though in that it's an inexpensive mind vacating endeavor that I'll likely never really master. All thoughts and worries are pushed aside when one starts examining and working the angles on a rock.

Have a good one,

I wish I could walk around here and find some cobbles like you do. My knapping is more or less confined to bottle bottoms due to lack of local materials.