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Here is the closest thing to a whole gorget I've ever found. Stained but is made from pink slate. I thought I had lost it one time at a show but found it recently. N GA 
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Here are a few of my favorites. Not G10s but the three points are completely translucent with a memorable story behind them. I found all of these just a few weeks apart (back when I used to be able to find stuff). The North/maybe preform was the find that kept me coming back, almost quit looking before I found it. The Adena dickson was found with lightning flashing, sunset in the west and an owl ten feet up in a tree hooting at me. The tiny bird point was found in the leaves and other people standing right next to it. Lastly the small celt was found on a game trail, just lying there as dog walkers passed it by.Central OhioComment
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Let's see a better pic of the celt that's a cool story how so many just walk past it like just another rock laying there. Makes me laugh. Once I saw some guys swinging their MD in the creek. Guy says I didn't find a thing. I said well are you done looking? He said yes have at it. I reached down and in between his feet I picked up a beautiful worked black flint knife and said well thank you.NW Georgia,Comment
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First Pitted hammer stone I found in Tennessee. I found in site L1. I believe that you can tell what the dominant hand was that the NA used based on where the pits are and also the wear on the stone. I believe this one is left handed. If it were right handed there would have been more wear on the larger thumb side which there’s not. Not sure if there is a common size ratio between pits on either side in other areas where these are found but there is a distinct size difference on every specimen that I have found . The thumb hole is the largest the middle finger is the smallest hole/pit . This one has a nice smooth area for the pointer finger not sure if that is from lots of use or is coincidental. I’m a lefty naturally and it fits my hand perfectly and the pattern of wear would be identical if I used it for percussion flaking. Thought I would share what I’ve learned from the ones I’ve found . I’ve noticed that they say that these were used for nutting stones and there are hickory , acorn and black walnuts around here but I’m not seeing that Based upon the wear so far in the specimens I’ve found. I did find what I’m thinking was a nutting slab with a hole in it but have yet to retrieve it.Last edited by SGT.Digger; 02-15-2020, 02:43 PM.Comment
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Small mortar and pestle and mini , found these on my 10th birthday only time i ever found a pair together there is a hole on the bottom of the mortar where it was ground with the pestle about half as deep as the top , the small mini pestle was found in a pea gravel bar looking for bird points.WyomingComment
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Here is a small point I found before I joined the forum, and never posted. This was laying right underneath a tree along the river with an osprey nest above. Osprey baby was watching me the entire time. Since then, I love seeing ospreys and consider them lucky! I haven't been able to type this one, any help appreciated. Chatham County NC. Our typical green rhyolite. Has a nice needle tip.Central North CarolinaComment
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If this can go on for about another week maybe I will be able to get out and find something by then. Creeks are still way up so far.NW Georgia,Comment
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Who doesn't like gift frames? When I first started looking I was finding lots of pottery pieces and a person in Kentucky was finding Archaic and Paleo but no pottery so we made a trade. She really liked the sherds but I think I got the better end of the trade. Idk whatever happened to her I haven't seen her post in a long time. Kentucky personal finds by a friend.NW Georgia,Comment
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That's a good trade. I really like that sweet little drill. -
SH, have you typed those points? Looks like a couple big sandy types and a couple Chesser points but the one on the far right , I’m really not sure on that one. Just curious ..Thanks -
I knew the big Sandy's but not the others. I saw the far right did look different by the base I'm sure those are thinning flakes cause I've never seen a Paleo point look like that. I put the frame together 7 years ago and haven't opened it since.
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Part of my collection.
Civil War bullet from my front yard.
Flower from my backyard.
Two crappy sketches."The education of a man is never completed until he dies." Robert E. LeeComment
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Walked a field with a buddy of mine in eastern NC two weeks ago. They graded the field and one side had rivulets from a rain storm. Found one of my better hafted drills!
and a sweet razor thin ground palmer!! And a decent morrow mtn.
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Went to visit some great friends in Ohio this week. Got home late last night and got up this morning and took a three hour stroll and was very productive!!!Comment
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I’m about like a herd of turtles getting anything done SH... Here are a few, some have been shown, most have not..Lubbock County TxComment
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Dang jj I'm glad you shared some of your finds. Really digging them small points, very good.NW Georgia,Comment
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The birds are my babies SH, got lots and lots more. Most of my collection consists of archaic points. Then a lesser amount being true arrows, with the least amount being paleo. I thought I was going to get out for a hunt today. Seems like family has designs on my Sunday. I might slip away if I can get everyone happy....
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Here are some broken paleos. Not personal finds, but I enjoy paleo and broken pieces are interesting and affordable.
I think this is a late Clovis/Gainey point, I was thinking Folsom at first based on the edge work, but it's large and relatively thick.
Wilson County Sandpit, TX.
Cody/Scottsbluff bases. The Chalcedony one is from Colorado and would have world class if whole. The other piece is Texas.
Cumberlands from Ohio.
Last edited by clovisoid; 02-16-2020, 12:40 AM.Hong Kong, but from Indiana/FloridaComment
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Here is a 300 million year old coral fossilStagger Lee/ SE MissouriComment
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