CLOVIS! My Oldest Find EVER!

[oxbowbarefoot]

Two days later and I'm still just as giddy as when I found this.

Monday after work I decided to take a little drive down to Massachusetts to a colonial farm site along the Connecticut River where I have had some luck with my detector. After swinging the coil for a while in a lower field and only turing up a few flat buttons, I decided to try my luck in the upper field which had recently been turned over. The soil was really dry and the dust was awful. Disgruntled, I figured I would do one more pass hoping to dig at least one good keeper for the day. I always look down when I'm detecting, so its not uncommon for me to find the occasional arrowhead or flake, but what I saw laying on the ground shocked me. Staring up from the dusty earth was the most perfect point I had ever seen. I just about through my detector and shovel in excitement. I didn't even think to take an in-situ picture, I just picked it up and kept saying "oh my god, oh my god." In my hand I held my very first Paleo point, this wonderfully fluted Clovis! The point is 4 1/8" long, 1 1/2" wide. I can't wait to get back there and search for more!

 

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[1320]

Wow, now that's an awesome find...and from your part of the Country....that's rarer than rare! Well done. I have submitted a banner vote.

 

[EricTheCat]

Wow! Congrats oxbowbarefoot. I may be new to this but I surely do recognize what an amazing find that is. Pretty sure I would have jumped right up in to orbit if I had found that. Thanks for sharing.

 

[jmaschal]

Wow congrats.... Amazing find! Keep posting with updates.

 

[Americus]

That is an incredible find. Thanks for the show!

 

[Tnmountains]

I just saw it in Todays finds. Wow. It has my vote. Be nice to see an artifact on top

 

[fyrffytr1]

Congratulations on the find of a lifetime!

 

[NC field hunter]

Incredible!

 

[NCPeaches]

Absolutely incredible find! Congrats to you, it's a beauty! I can't even imagine how excited you are!

 

[rock]

Good God what a wonderful save that was. Congrats and lucky you. I was going to vote banner but I see its already there.

 

[theviking]

WOW! Killer find, kinda speechless. Congrats on a well deserved banner, thanks for the show.

 

[painterx7]

That is an amazing find you get my vote

 

[oxbowbarefoot]

Thanks for the comments and banner votes!

 

[Twitch]

Unbelievable. For those who don't regularly play in the pre-Columbian artifact space, you really can't overstate the rarity, antiquity and value of this piece. Simply amazing.

Great find my friend.

 

[joshuaream]

I guess I'd reach down to pick up that one if it was in the way...



Awesome find.

 

[PaDirtDigger]

Since you are not far from the Sugarloaf site, id get that to R.M. Gramly. He would love to see it.... Hes up there if not now, very soon digging on the site... Check it out and let us know how it goes. He will tell you everything and more about it...

 

[scruggs]

if only that point could talk...what a story it could tell! Once in a life time find!!! Oh what a feeling it must be...Congratulations!!!

 

[austin]

Gooder than good. Has to be one of the rarest finds ever in that area. I don't know much about the piece, but how did it get there? Was it made and used by the locals or was it traded for? Sorry to be so stupid.

 

[old digger]

Congratulations on an extraordinary find! It is an exhilarating feeling when you are privileged to find a Clovis point, Well Done!

 

[oxbowbarefoot]

Since you are not far from the Sugarloaf site, id get that to R.M. Gramly. He would love to see it.... Hes up there if not now, very soon digging on the site... Check it out and let us know how it goes. He will tell you everything and more about it...

Could you PM me his contact info if you have it?