Two Florida Shell Artifacts And A Little Rambling

[Hal Gorges]

These two shell pendants were found on the ancient village of Tocobaga, located in upper Tampa Bay, Pinellas county Florida... The village is still there today with many of the original features, and has been preserved ( most of it anyway ) as a county park, and folks can enjoy the beauty and tranquility, much like the original inhabitants...It’s a continuous habitation site that has produced many artifacts from the 1950’s, back to paleo times, like 5 cent coke bottles for example ,( Wait just a minute,! That makes me an artifactualfossil, or something, no,no,no, forget that. )...Where was I, oh yeah...Although these two pieces most likely didn’t need to be treated with a preservative I opted for it...Thanks for lookin...P.S. when I visit, a special good feeling comes over me for whatever reason and I don’t wonder why, I just bathe in it, some of you know what I mean and some might think me a little tipsy, THE END.

[Ron Kelley]

Hey Hal, You have two beautiful shell artifacts there. The second one is my favorite.

[Hal Gorges]

Me too.

[redrocks]

Nice shells Hal.. look like plummets. Similar!

[Cecilia]

Duh.... I sho’ don’t know difference from these pics! I still believe plummets, regardless whether had different purpose than just pendant, made to be ornamental.

[redrocks]

Hey C. Tom Clark. Put in a pic if a shell plummet a while back. Maybe he'll see this and put it on

[south fork]

Very nice saves

[gregszybala]

The story is almost as good as the artifacts!

[gregszybala]

Nah, enjoy all! You definitely have had lots of fun collecting and sharing your artifacts Hal.

[Cecilia]

And we enjoy sharing both your artifacts and your stories!

[Hal Gorges]

Well ain’t that sweet.

[Havenhunter]

Your digression is a great story! Love the shell pendants. I’ve never found anything like that here.

[Hal Gorges]

Thx, Hunter., .if they were found in your area they’d most likely be hard stone

[paohrocks]

You guys have some great relics down there, appreciate the show Hal

[outlaws15]

Nice Hal and please do

[Cecilia]

Yes, do. I always thot you overloaded us in the beginning; can only fit so much candy in mouth at one time, no matter how hard and fast cram! Yes, breakdown those >1478 frames into solo acts, and entertain us for next 50 yrs!

[Hal Gorges]

Well those are certainly encouraging words, I’ll be posting something if the spirit moves me.

[flintguy]

Don't see artifacts like those everyday. Thanks for posting them.

[Glacial Pebble]

Awesome finds Hal, love getting that feeling in some of my favorite sites. Thanks for the show.

[Hoss]

Beautiful artifacts Hal thank you for sharing the photos.

[Narrow Way Knapper]

Ancient art is so beautiful! Thanks for the history lesson Hal. I can't get over that one with a spiral, really impressive!

[tomf]

Beautiful things they are.

Wasn't Tocobaga where Cabeza de Vaca first came unstuck?

Crazy story.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81lvar_N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez_Cabeza_de_Vaca

[Hal Gorges]

All I can say is most likely as tocobaga was the chief village for the whole Tampa Bay Region...Tom has worked the Area towards the mouth of the bay where the Naarvez midden is located..problem is everybody wants to claim all the different Explorers landed in their town,Lol,...but wherever they all landed they all made at least one trip up the bay to meet with the most high muckity muck at Tocabaga...Cabeza lived quite an extraordinary life, that was a good read, I did not know any of that, I always focused on De Soto...thanks.

[tomf]

You ought to read 'Brutal Journey ", a bad name for a good book. Cant remember author's name. Whole story carefully put together from available records with an emphasis on archeology but told as a story and well written.

[tomf]

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/books/review/14millard.html

Here you go.