04/19/2019 Find

[dognose]

found the one point this afternoon.

Cold 14 mph wind from the north made the mid 40's feel like the mid 30's. Raining and steady wind. Cold. Felt like winter was setting in again. Talked to a few farmers, all were fixing to get a wood stove going.



checked out a few fields for metal detecting, found only one point.

walked right up on it.


Took a video, but after the other hearkbreaker I had a 50/50 chance



here it is washed. Got a few dings




got home and fixed a fire in the box and poured a cold brew.

 

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[joshuaream]

Great looking point!

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Sweet Point. I'd be happy with that one.

 

[ghp95134]

Sweet fire!

 

[arrow86]

Nice find , and I see some nice artifacts on that mantle [emoji15] good looking axe heads

 

[dognose]

Thanks, I like that hard stone. Find a few almost every year.

 

[SportsmanAll]

Wowza [emoji1316]

 

[arrow86]

Thanks, I like that hard stone. Find a few almost every year.

That’s pretty impressive to find a few every year does that include hanmerstones / grinders or you find a few axes / celts every year ?
As far as axe heads go for me I average about 1 every 12 years.... lol yeah iv only got 2

 

[dognose]

I was not including hammerstones. It does not always occur, the finding in pairs, but sometimes.

Often I will find two the same day. My theory on why is the hunter gather groups of Archaic tended to bury the hard stone relics in a pit and when they returned as the seasons changed and/or following the herds, they would exhume the relic and reuse them. Some may agree and others may disagree, but its a theory.

This occurs more often with axes and pestles than celts. I cant recall finding two celts the same day. But I have found a celt and ax the same day. Its possible those were not involved with the above theory. The celt was a large square poll celt and the ax was a full groove.

So if I find hardstone on a rise, I often will look on the side and in the bottoms within 20 - 50 feet of the rise, esp if the rows of the crops go down the rise. Its possible that over the years the stone 'travels' from the rise to the bottoms as the water moves them slightly and the plowing does as well. They don't move a lot each time, but over the years they could move a lot. Once on the slope of the rise the movement increases with the help of gravity. Does that make sense?