The Problem we have here in the east coast is vegetation. I know many campsites but when your 10 feet deep in briars leaves pine and laurel thickets filled with mosquitoes and gnats from said water source your not gonna find anything.
Then nowdays nobody plows. We have planters and discs. Way less intrusive which means I have to rely on erosion to uncover finds which can take some time. Even if I want to sift or dig in a good creek or sandbar sveral thousand years of soft soil and leaf erosion has any artifacts buried.
I'd love to hunt out west but in sure locating untouched sites is difficult. Even on the most remote difficult sites I've discovered in my area I've came across old timers who were at it well before me. I just gotta get a little more dirty and hunch over a little more. You gotta be first on site when the water lowers creek levels or you miss out. There's many chomping at the bit to get at it you just gotta want it more and gotta brave rain and cold to get it.
Then nowdays nobody plows. We have planters and discs. Way less intrusive which means I have to rely on erosion to uncover finds which can take some time. Even if I want to sift or dig in a good creek or sandbar sveral thousand years of soft soil and leaf erosion has any artifacts buried.
I'd love to hunt out west but in sure locating untouched sites is difficult. Even on the most remote difficult sites I've discovered in my area I've came across old timers who were at it well before me. I just gotta get a little more dirty and hunch over a little more. You gotta be first on site when the water lowers creek levels or you miss out. There's many chomping at the bit to get at it you just gotta want it more and gotta brave rain and cold to get it.
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