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This is my first Indian Artifact.
I rode my bicycle to look for fossils at a limestone quarry Southeast farm land outside Independence, Missouri on the east side of the Little Blue River. I was 13 years old. Fossils were new to me and very interesting. The Rock Quarry was a bit of a hard route to bicycle, so I 'ditched the bicycle' along the two lane paved road in a ditch. I began to walk across a plowed corn field to get there.
I walked 25 feet or more and upon a large clump of plowed over field was a large chunk of dirt turned on its side. There was this Arrowhead. Never knew that you could find arrowheads, anywhere. But there it was. The material I discovered the material was very popular in Hopewell Sits along this fertile river valley. Also after finding a real Indian Artifact, a dart, not an arrowhead to say... no more fossil brachiopods or crinoid stems for me.
After that find in the field, I peddled to the corn fields along the Little Blue River in the Fall deep plowing and the Spring plowing to get the field ready to plant seed. I was now a Bonifide Artifact Dude... BAD for short. I made that up. I looked forward for those heavy rains in the Spring!
I kept this dart point and mounted it upon an index card. I even have the location, as I bought some Quadrangle Maps and looked for all the possible areas to find some campsites. It worked. Pottery shards, broken points and some ground tools. Very few percussion flakes or pressure flakes in the fields, but lots of pot shards and broken tools and the occasional complete celt or point.
We all have our story about the FIRST find. This is mine. I still have it. I will request that my wife bury me with it when I pass. It brings back good memories when times were simple and the Farmers... did not come out yelling to Get Out of the Field. They actually were very nice and understanding.
Any day outdoors is one more of the best days of your living experience. Do it often. The hospitals are full of those who are experts at Sitting.
I later began to mark Sites I discovered on the maps. This became H-5 for Hopewell 5.
I rode my bicycle to look for fossils at a limestone quarry Southeast farm land outside Independence, Missouri on the east side of the Little Blue River. I was 13 years old. Fossils were new to me and very interesting. The Rock Quarry was a bit of a hard route to bicycle, so I 'ditched the bicycle' along the two lane paved road in a ditch. I began to walk across a plowed corn field to get there.
I walked 25 feet or more and upon a large clump of plowed over field was a large chunk of dirt turned on its side. There was this Arrowhead. Never knew that you could find arrowheads, anywhere. But there it was. The material I discovered the material was very popular in Hopewell Sits along this fertile river valley. Also after finding a real Indian Artifact, a dart, not an arrowhead to say... no more fossil brachiopods or crinoid stems for me.
After that find in the field, I peddled to the corn fields along the Little Blue River in the Fall deep plowing and the Spring plowing to get the field ready to plant seed. I was now a Bonifide Artifact Dude... BAD for short. I made that up. I looked forward for those heavy rains in the Spring!
I kept this dart point and mounted it upon an index card. I even have the location, as I bought some Quadrangle Maps and looked for all the possible areas to find some campsites. It worked. Pottery shards, broken points and some ground tools. Very few percussion flakes or pressure flakes in the fields, but lots of pot shards and broken tools and the occasional complete celt or point.
We all have our story about the FIRST find. This is mine. I still have it. I will request that my wife bury me with it when I pass. It brings back good memories when times were simple and the Farmers... did not come out yelling to Get Out of the Field. They actually were very nice and understanding.
Any day outdoors is one more of the best days of your living experience. Do it often. The hospitals are full of those who are experts at Sitting.
I later began to mark Sites I discovered on the maps. This became H-5 for Hopewell 5.
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