Florida bone points,pins and other artifacts

centfladigger

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Wanted to share some pics of some of my personal finds of Florida bone artifacts.Most of these are bone points, even though people will call them awls or pins they are fish gigs.I find them in a few spots where the river is shallow and narrow.These are made from the cannon leg bone of the deer ,split length ways and split again,quartered. I have socketed antler points and antler handles as well.I love these artifacts more than the arrowheads because these are harder to find . On 1 site I find all the handles and antler pieces, even a broken antler atlatl weight. The other site all I find is the bone points. We do find pins or hair pins in the rivers also. I found a antler tool for knapping on one of these sites along with some lithic debitage and a few points that date the site. The reason for some of the whitish colors is because years ago when I started finding these the only way we knew how to presrve them was with a mixture of elmers glue and water.Now we use acetone and duco cement and it leaves it looking natural now. I have 2 dig sites that has preserved bone from the middens along what used to be a lake.Its shallow digging and floods every year and has a high content of iron rocks, so it preserved the butched bones. I framed some with butcher marks on them.


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I have shell also. Where are they at Naples? some of the finest shell artifacts are found down there, the 10,000 island chain is UNREAl. thousands of middens on all those little islands. Not any rock south of the Tampa area but it was brought down there, the points are mainly weedon islands, pinellases, some taylors and duvals. Plummets and bone pins/points, some hooks and alot of pottery down there. When the hurricanes hit there a few years back in Punta Gorda I think it was shell middens were exposed in the mangroves like crazy
 

thanks centralfladigger,im not to keen on the laws there,are you allowed to dig on your own property.my grandma has alot of lots there,ive never been there though,but i think there on that lake you mentioned, jamey
 

jamey said:
thanks centralfladigger,im not to keen on the laws there,are you allowed to dig on your own property.my grandma has alot of lots there,ive never been there though,but i think there on that lake you mentioned, jamey
sorry, forgot to get back with you on that. Yes you can dig here in Fl with landowners permission. Of course that didnt/doesnt stop all the people from trespassing and digging for artifacts and leaving the open holes. This picture was taken Jan 4th 2007 on a site that only a few of us had permission to be on. One of the few ran their mouth and it was a mad house for over a year.I`m talking about open drinking and smoking dope and people even brought grills out there to cook while they dug. I dug this site back in the early 90`s when it was privatly owned and when it sold to a developer a few years back we got permission to dig, I think because they wanted all archaeological signifgance gone, anyway this idiot was busted along with others and this was in the news.

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