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I don't know what's goin on but I keep finding them sw Connecticut.... two days ago. 
and I'll take em
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I don’t know where your going to store all the weights Red. Maybe a weight garden outside ?Lubbock County Tx -
Your killin' me red, your killin' me. Great finds, ha ha!"The education of a man is never completed until he dies." Robert E. LeeComment
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Man, Red you are on fire on them. They used shells here instead of rocks for netweights and there are one found here and there on coastal sites/middens. On some sites it is obvious they were working on nets, using nets, maybe just pulling up canoes in that spot, in specific spots on the site. Loaded with shell net weights on those areas. Buckets of them. You are on such a site(s) for sure.Professor Shellman
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Thanx Tom are the shell weights large? I don't know but my eyes are focusing in on Rock for some reason ...there's a couple out croppings of schist along the river.....I think when spring and summer gets here I'll see more quartz and chert hopefully everything coated with silt when the tide goes down. Many of these weight are schist. Some tight grained. Some real shelfy....when I clean em they're cool silvery color. Lots of quartz and mica In schist I believeLast edited by redrocks; 02-21-2019, 02:47 PM.
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Not as big as your rock ones....these Arca shells are the main shells used here on the ends and they were weighted down with just real big shells. Shallow water offshore here.Professor Shellman
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Repros local Weedon Island museum center. The demonstration of the net with all the weights on it really set them in my brain as a whole instead of singles. But these are all the same... and yours each one is different even if some similar size.Professor Shellman
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Cool. Stuff .ya ur right I'm on a fishing camp for sure....so the ones you find are always drilled? Cool demonstration with the net ...thxSW ConnecticutComment
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I am reading a book called Captured by Indians and they talk about fishing the salmon. One day, the guy figured they caught 700 salmonSouth DakotaComment
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I like the middle one looks like a groove running all the way around itNW Georgia,Comment
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Yeah kinda like that that one too...you mean the one that kinds looks like a turtle?SW ConnecticutComment
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I've fished for bluefish and stripers along NJ beach and offshore up there....I can't imagine..but they did...hit those runs up the beaches in spots and they needed big weights...would love to see the cordage but the size of those notches kinda tell the netting was thick holy cowProfessor Shellman
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Your going to have to buy a bowl to display these in for goodness sake .Comment
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