The Field Next Door

[Rio Del Norte]

[beatup1354]

i like that you use an old ski pole

[Rio Del Norte]

Gotta have it to help get back up off the ground...

[Hal Gorges]

Good for you, I can’t get up with two poles.

[UpNorth]

Florida boy... probably because all your pockets are full of kirks. Bolens and hernando’s

[smbore]

Nice finds good deal.

[UpNorth]

A trained eye to spot them in that rocky field.
a nice group.... what would you call the round” flat”one?

[Rio Del Norte]

I group that shape as a hide working/polishing tool. My guess but I have seen similar being used by native Americans.

[Hal Gorges]

I don’t know anything about that type of artifact but I like em.

[Rio Del Norte]

My hunting buddy calls them "coasters"....
they are a very symetrical shape and size/thickness and prevalent enough to be a special tool. I've got a good dozen of 'em...

[Fat]

Thats a “sidearm skipper”

[Rio Del Norte]

First thing I thought when I started finding them....

[smbore]

I really like these items i have several buckets of them those are really dandies. The flat one is really cool...

[Rio Del Norte]

Here's another way to hunt artifacts. There's so many rocks that farmers pick them up and dump them in the corners of the fields. I've walked many a piles looking for rocks, it ain't easy...

[SurfaceHunter]

I was going to say the farmers do that to here but man that's some huge piles.

[beatup1354]

looks like some of our fields

[Hal Gorges]

That’s jus ridiculously crazy cool.

[Ron Kelley]

Man that has to be tough on farm equipment. That must be glacial till. I don't see anything that has been altered by the hand of man: Do you?

[Rio Del Norte]

Potatoes are a main crop here so the farmers just took a potatoe digger and modified it to dig and load into a dump truck. Even then it's hard on equipment.

[Fat]

Potato “digger”
Rock “picker”
Beet “puller”
Corn “lister”
Hay “rake”
Sod “plow”
a go-dig
and a few wagons.

Believe it or not, I collect them

[Rio Del Norte]

Farm iron is good iron.

[gregszybala]

That thin one is pretty cool. Have seen rock piles on the edge of a field but nothing like that!

[Rio Del Norte]

The rock piles on my farm land has produced the most artifacts that I have found. Indicative of a campsite that was used over a long period of time.
The "field next door" wasn't rock picked and has not been farmed for a couple of years so it's good for surface hunting.

[Rio Del Norte]

More "coasters..."

[smbore]

Sweet......

[Fat]

Those are cool.
whats there to burn down in a fire? Looks like alot of rock

[Rio Del Norte]

My grandad called it "roadbase"...

[SurfaceHunter]

Are they pecked into that oval shape? Any ideas on what they were used for? Lots of questions

[Ron Kelley]

I have always worked the hides over the smooth end of a wooden post or the rounded end of one of my fleshing boards. Doing this allows me to stretch the hide while working it back and forth. I will try using a stone and see how it works. Perhaps the post first and then the stone. That's an interesting idea.

[Rio Del Norte]

Ron, let me know what you think, I have stones that were for grinding, mano, [easy to deduce the use] and stones that are highly polished most of them being rounder palm size and eliptical, from thin to flying saucer shaped.

[SurfaceHunter]

I have to say that's one of the past things always forget about is the hides and clothes.

[Rio Del Norte]

Found this really nice polish stone there yesterday...as well as a few other pieces...

[Ron Kelley]

So do you think that's an ancient artifact?

[Rio Del Norte]

[Rio Del Norte]

I only have found 3 over the years this nice...