Favorite Finds?

[eannis6]

Hello everyone! I got thinking about it recently, the hours, days, and years that we have all collectively accumulated searching for artifacts have sparked some pretty amazing discoveries! Please feel free to post a picture and story about your favorite find, and tell me why it’s your favorite! I’m excited to hear about what y’all have found.

God Bless,
Ethan

[Lindenmeier-Man]

Hmmmm, your putting some of us old guys on the spot there.....

[Pointhead]

Quartz Neville, middle archaic point! About 7,000 years B.P. One of my favorite artifacts. Totally serrated quartz point!

[JoshinMO]

That's quite nice!

[eannis6]

Dang, that’s quite the beauty! The skill that was required to make those serrations in the quartz was high! Thanks for sharing!

[Sugaree]

This Hardaway Dalton is my favorite find. Being from NC Hardaway's are very sought after and I thought I would never find one. I saw just a small hint of rhyolite color under the dirt thinking it was just a flake I was quite surprised when I popped it out.

[eannis6]

That is so exciting, that’s the kind of find that is once in a lifetime. What a fascinating point! Thanks for sharing!

[JoshinMO]

Nice

[Lindenmeier-Man]

I can’t really pinpoint a best find, I have been blessed ! Truly I hope everyone will be fortunate in their adventures. So, I will present the LLL’s .. Life , Labor , and Luxury.

[eannis6]

That is really neat I absolutely love the paleo point! Thanks for sharing!

[chase]

I got to hold that Folsom amazing!!!!!

[redrocks]

You have been truly blessed ...that's awesome that you know that brother MAN....so thats a Paleo point. .....scraper .....and a bead? Nice

[Lindenmeier-Man]

Yes bro, Clovis, a paleo scraper, and a paleo bead. The bead is shell that is now stone...

[tomclark]

Supreme bead there. Looks like ivory, a favorite of paleoples...

[SurfaceHunter]

This one was a fun find last year. Me and another guy was looking and we were getting skunked. He was walking in front of me. I saw this in his footprint so I called him over to rub it in a bit and thanked him for stepping on it 😃

[SurfaceHunter]

Adena Vanishing Stem is the type

[redrocks]

That's a cool find ..like the story

[SurfaceHunter]

It was fun but the next week he paid me back with a find. I call him Aqua Man cause he can see them trough the water at least 2 ft deep.

[SurfaceHunter]

Here is another I was walking my favorite creek and on the gravel bar there was a lot of coyote tracks and a spot where they had dug after something and this point was laying where they had dug

[eannis6]

I love the stories that went along with both of those finds, they are just as neat as the artifacts! Thanks for sharing!

[redrocks]

That's superb Glen coyote beauty

[SurfaceHunter]

Thanks I’m hoping to get back to that property in June. The new owner is a avid hunter and hunts all seasons. June-August is the only time I am allowed out there now. 200 acres of fields and creek.

[JoshinMO]

Here is a Favorite, Spring Day edge of Field find.

[SurfaceHunter]

Nice one white flint here is very rare

[eannis6]

Dang, sweet point. Thanks for sharing.

[JoshinMO]

Thanks Guy's

[tomclark]

I have too many favorites, mosty of shell artifacts. Construction and developments along the coast and intracoastal waterways down here often plow through shell middens. It's unfortunate that many sites are deemed unimportant and destroyed. This big Busycon (Lighning Whelk) Shell Adze was found in-situ in a wall of midden shell near oddly enough.....Indian Rocks Beach, FL. It has no damage and we cannot understand or see how this was used as an adze as the vast majority of them are very similar in size @ half the size of this one. Only Son Anderson has one about the same size lol. Hole is for haft/handle and notch is where stick lays across. It's definitely one of my favorite finds. The other three were found in various similar small sites and circumstances and they are unusually small. (average is in between size)

[eannis6]

Hey, that’s really interesting. Cool finds!!

[Lindenmeier-Man]

Now those are different ! I’d not know it if I were on a beach and found one. Also, Son Anderson. I’ve not heard that name in a looonnngg while ! I told him a NA joke once and he about fell out of his chair, I though he was gonna have a heart attack he was laughing so hard....

[SurfaceHunter]

That’s a cool piece Tom no shell artifacts here soil kills them

[Ocra]

In the late 1990s I lived above Cotopaxi Colorado - a railroad town between Canon City and Salida along the Arkansas River. To get out in the winter for a hunt I would drive over to the San Luis Valley and explore the dune fields north of Alamosa. One cold but clear day in February I got out - on a motorcycle at sunrise - and rode until around two in the afternoon. Early on it was wicked cold - my ears were hurting and I had to warm my hands on the engine exhaust.
I found six or seven field grade archaic points and was heading back to the truck along a fence line when I rode right up on this Paleo laying fully exposed about 20 yards from the fence. It is made out of phenocryst quartzite and its color and texture matched the sand so well that it was hard to see unless you were right on top of it. The guys who put up the fence missed seeing it for that reason.
4.25 inches in length and some have said its an Agate Basin - others have called it a Hell Gap.
On the ride back to the truck - I don't think the wheels of the motorcycle touched the ground.......

[Aquaman]

Exceptional workmanship!!

[redrocks]

That is stupendous...what a piece

[oldrocks2]

What a super piece.

[eannis6]

Ocra Absolutely gorgeous thanks for sharing

[oldrocks2]

My favorite find. I was 13 yrs. old ( 1954) up a creek catching minnows and crawdads for river fishing and this point was laying right next to a crawdad mound. Picked it up and thought wow indians were here. Threw it in my minnow bucket and that night got home and after cleaning a big flathead I showed it to dad and he said, that's damn old. Threw it in my junk drawer with my marbles, hawk foot ,snake skin, etc and never thought much about it. Years later (many) I became friends with a coworker who was a arrowhead hunter and he invited me on his hunts. The rest is history. Still my favorite find as I can remember the day well because of the great flathead I caught.

[redrocks]

That is one sweet point OR