Today's Tobacco Field Finds - 09/03/19
I have a spot on my farm that was once a major Indian campsite. There is a large depression in the ground, with a rock outcropping, and 2 caves. A year round stream of water flows from the smaller one, and the larger one apparently served as a shelter. The fields on 3 sides of this area have always been in crops, and I've found many points over the years, and many more were found before I bought the farm.
I never bothered to keep the broken points and pieces that had been worked but never finished, but the pickings have gotten slim over the years. My neighbor rents this part of my farm, and usually has it in no-till corn, wheat, and soybeans, making arrowhead hunting impossible. Every 3 years or so, he'll put it in tobacco, as it was this year, and I can find some stuff then. He harvested the tobacco a few weeks ago, disced the ground down, and after a few rains, I went looking this morning.
Mostly junk compared to what I've found in the past, but a good way to pass the time.
I never bothered to keep the broken points and pieces that had been worked but never finished, but the pickings have gotten slim over the years. My neighbor rents this part of my farm, and usually has it in no-till corn, wheat, and soybeans, making arrowhead hunting impossible. Every 3 years or so, he'll put it in tobacco, as it was this year, and I can find some stuff then. He harvested the tobacco a few weeks ago, disced the ground down, and after a few rains, I went looking this morning.
Mostly junk compared to what I've found in the past, but a good way to pass the time.