sandchip
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- Oct 29, 2010
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Hit a creek out in the country that's produced a few things through the years. Originally, I started looking it for arrowheads, but after my son found a killer pottery jug a few years ago, I keep an eye out for anything. With an old grist mill upstream, there's really no telling what might turn up, at least that's what I keep hoping. Yesterday, the conditions were perfect. Heavy winter rains had cleared up the water and cleaned off things, and with the trees yet to leaf out, the sunlight lit up the bottom nicely. I walked downstream a good ways, then turned around and started back upstream slowly scanning the bottom. Nothing much but an occasional piece of flint. I might add here that the first time I looked this creek, it looked like it was full of flint, but turns out that all those pieces, big and small, are nothing more than extremely hard clay or marl. I mean, some of the pieces still fool me. They flake just like flint and not quite, but almost sound like it when I tap them with the tip of my machete. The fact that the tannins in the water stain the clay a nice brownish red doesn't help until you snap them in half to see the bluish grey color inside.
Anyway, I spotted what I hoped wasn't the 1/2" PVC street ell that it looked like. I thought that surely one of those wouldn't be way out here, but I've been cruelly fooled a bunch of times. Went ahead a took a picture before I picked it up, just like I did about 15 minutes earlier when I spotted what I was sure was a nice red arrowhead that, yep, turned out to be a piece of clay. The ripples in the water don't help matters. When I picked it up, it was like finally, my first intact pipe after so many years. I love it, and even if nothing else turned up, I was plenty happy.
Kept on looking and further up, spotted this tip. I was sure that this would be the big one I had hoped for, but what you see was most of it. A little damage to the shoulder, but I was still glad to find it.
A ways on up, in a deep spot under a log was this bottle. Not a rare one but hey, shows the potential for an oldie to be in there somewhere.
That's about it. All in all, definitely a good day by my standards!
Anyway, I spotted what I hoped wasn't the 1/2" PVC street ell that it looked like. I thought that surely one of those wouldn't be way out here, but I've been cruelly fooled a bunch of times. Went ahead a took a picture before I picked it up, just like I did about 15 minutes earlier when I spotted what I was sure was a nice red arrowhead that, yep, turned out to be a piece of clay. The ripples in the water don't help matters. When I picked it up, it was like finally, my first intact pipe after so many years. I love it, and even if nothing else turned up, I was plenty happy.
Kept on looking and further up, spotted this tip. I was sure that this would be the big one I had hoped for, but what you see was most of it. A little damage to the shoulder, but I was still glad to find it.
A ways on up, in a deep spot under a log was this bottle. Not a rare one but hey, shows the potential for an oldie to be in there somewhere.
That's about it. All in all, definitely a good day by my standards!
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