Just curious if anyone has found out in the wild world any artifacts? I have kept my eyes open for years and never been fortunate enough to find anything other than flint and petrified wood. I would love to find an arrow head, a hammer stone, pottery, or even a petroglyph. Any tips would be appreciated on whatand where to look for! I also would love to see any of your discovery treasures!
I thought I found something really old out in the woods, come to find out I was looking into a mirror!
Years ago when I was still working, I found an arrow head out in a plowed field right after a rain storm. If you have access to farm land, check out a freshly plowed field after a rain storm. It makes small rocks and arrow heads more visible.
Haven't found anything in quite a few years now but we used to find arrow heads and what appeared to be old hammers or mauls. Once FIL found an old tomahawk. Here is a relative's collection.
Only thing of natural qualities I’ve actively searched for are quartz crystals (not for use with a tin foil hat ).... but those are 8 hours away, at the house. Someone remind me NEXT SUNDAY (not in the next post, ya smartazz’s ) to put up some pics...
This spring I was on a job that involved building an access road and pad for a 911 cell tower. It was on a bluff overlooking the Iowa River. Very high potential for native American artifacts. There were two Sioux Tribal archeologists on site the whole time watching every scoop of dirt I moved. They were finding tons of artifacts. Every time I made a push with the dozer they would go in the slot and pick things up. I would be in an excavator and they would come over and talk to me, just be standing there talking, look down on the track of the hoe, and pick an arrowhead out of the mud between the grousers. I was stripping topsoil with the dozer, looked back, and there was a perfect round circle of black in the yellow clay sticking out like a sore thumb. It was a firepit that they estimated was 1200-1500 years old by the depth of the topsoil. The cool thing is, unless it was something real unique, they just documented the exact location with GPS, took a picture, and will eventually bury it back on site once the construction is finished. They said there is no point taking it away to sit in a file cabinet forever, just put it back where it belongs.
My cousin found an arrowhead and another piece of flint in his fathers potato garden back in the 80's. He was told it was from around the time of Jesus. Then a year or so ago he found a 16" stone club and was told by an expert who had found similar stones that it was about 2000 years old too. And that it was likely used to break animal bones to get to the marrow. He also found this strange spiral rock. It might be natural but it sure looks to have been shaped by human hands. I found a knife/axe grinding wheel that may be a couple hundred years old at best.
I never have, though I have looked all my life, since I was a child. My brother is an archeologist, and he has an eye for stuff. Walking in the woods with him, he notices things like old homesteads and burial sites, like I might notice a flower. It is uncanny - "This looks like a homesite ... oh yeah, there is the foundation and it looks like the orchard was over there ..." kind of thing. Native American, European, African slave housing, he spots them all. Crazy.
Found this thing a few weeks ago. Find all sorts of things from antique bottles old tools,steel etc. My dad recently brought home two axe heads while spilunking. They are from the late1800s early 1900s I believe.
