Found a point cache today!! Help with I.D. Please...

[Jon Phillips]

Hello everyone...I have never had a cause to post in this forum before, as I had never found a complete point, but today was just unbelievable. I'm still in shock!

Here is the link to the whole story:

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/t...eal-day-relics-13-projectile-point-cache.html


What I would like to know is....Are these Hillsborough Points?

I found 10 nice ones, and 3 broken tips in a hole while digging a piece of buckshot.















That's a quarter in those shots, if you can't tell....

Thanks alot for any help anyone can give me on these........


Edit: More pics.....

 

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[SOHIO]

so are they newnan or hillsborough

I'm glad to see some flint on the banner

 

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[PrehistoricFlorida]

Nice find. These are Hillsborough points. If you consider selling them please email me [email protected]

 

[GatorBoy]

Looky there.. prompting new memberships already. Hope your GPS. was off when you took the photos in the field.

 

[NC field hunter]

Man you done good. Only once in my life I found two points together. Awesome finds and lottery winning kind of luck.

You said a mouth full right there.

 

[SOHIO]

Nice find. These are Hillsborough points. If you consider selling them please email me [email protected]

isnt buying and selling points illegal......

 

[NC field hunter]

I hope you don't mind my asking, can you show us the coordinates on the map where you found them? Just kidding!!! However, I do want to know, how many points must be found together for a find to be called a cache?

 

[SOHIO]

id say three of same type nc even 2 could be considered a cache if you could prove they were stashed for later use but of course that would be impossible but id say three same point types could be considered a cache

 

[Jon Phillips]

Looky there.. prompting new memberships already. Hope your GPS. was off when you took the photos in the field.

I don't know if it is applied to the pics with my current phone settings...I had that thought, so I did a few "dead drops" with the pics before posting it here.

The new ones are from my camera here at my house.

 

[SOHIO]

Get back out there and find some more jon

 

[Jon Phillips]

We plan on it!

 

[GatorBoy]

I don't know if it is applied to the pics with my current phone settings...I had that thought, so I did a few "dead drops" with the pics before posting it here.

The new ones are from my camera here at my house.

Good! We're on the same page.

 

[Jon Phillips]

My buddy went to Lowes and bought some rods to make probes with!

 

[Jon Phillips]

Honest! I came to tnet this morning with the intention of posting a comment about how long it has been since a truly ancient artifact has been on the banner, and how even though MY hunting chances are slim till we get rain, I was hoping someone else could make a banner find! again, Congratulations Jon! what a way to end the year!

Thanks!

 

[bsit1361]

I don't know the rules of a cache but after a flood i found 7 points and a game stone in a pocket under tree roots. Not where they would've washed to definetly put there together. Saw one tip sticking outta the dirt and when I picked up the clod there was more with it. Weird thing is only two of them were the same type. All were the same period but 5 different types. I called it a cache.

 

[NC field hunter]

I don't know the rules of a cache but after a flood i found 7 points and a game stone in a pocket under tree roots. Not where they would've washed to definetly put there together. Saw one tip sticking outta the dirt and when I picked up the clod there was more with it. Weird thing is only two of them were the same type. All were the same period but 5 different types. I called it a cache.

Sorry to bomb you with questions, but, is their a specific study to cache finds or luck? I know luck is a key in any finds, just wandering if some hunters go for cache finds specifically.

 

[GatorBoy]

I don't know the rules of a cache but after a flood i found 7 points and a game stone in a pocket under tree roots. Not where they would've washed to definetly put there together. Saw one tip sticking outta the dirt and when I picked up the clod there was more with it. Weird thing is only two of them were the same type. All were the same period but 5 different types. I called it a cache.

I would not conciser that a casche. While a great find...it was likely points over a period of time that wound up in that area long before that tree. The tree roots only brought them closer to the surface and aided in the erosion in a way that made that portion visible. My understanding of a casche is that those points were made usually of the same piece of stone likely by the same man and carried or placed together in a group for his use or trade.. likely in a pouch. Jmo.

 

[kuger]

Not going to hijack but my massive cache was 3 items together made by the same guy. You finds are stellar sir.

...I just found a pic of my one and only cache,I think it was one complete and 6 knife blanks

 

[Age_old]

Oh my god! To say that is the find of a lifetime is an understatement!!!! Absolutely unreal!

 

[GatorBoy]

Right! He's either going to be real fired up.. or ruined for hunting for a while..

 

[Jon Phillips]

...I just found a pic of my one and only cache,I think it was one complete and 6 knife blanks

Can you post it?