paleomaxx
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I made friends with a really cool farmer this weekend. The farm dates back to the 1720's and covers a whole river valley as well as some forested areas. My goal today was metal detecting and I searched for and successfully found an old 1840's homesite in the woods, but he also mentioned that the farm hands find tons of "arrowheads" in the fields. It wasn't my intended focus for the day, but on my way back I decided to walk the edge of one of the fields just to see what "tons" meant since it can be hard to gauge what that means in real terms. And while the ground wasn't littered with them, less than an hour ended with a surprising number of finds. The best being a very distinct partial point!
The plow took a chunk out of it, but it still has most features. I'm having trouble nailing down the variety but the material is chert and we're in the hudson river valley if that helps. I also found what I'm pretty sure is a chert knapping fragment:
And several chunks of un-worked chert:
I also found, in a small area, three pieces of red earthen pottery. I'm not as familiar with native pottery so I honestly don't know if these even are native, but if the photos are enough to make a determination I'd be very curious:
After the hour I was pretty excited with the finds so I stopped in at the farm again to show them the recoveries. That's when they showed me the picnic table in the back:
Those are just the knapping fragments they've found in the last few years! They couldn't find the main box of points to show me, but they had three from just the past few weeks hanging around:
I was absolutely floored. Am I correct in thinking, based on the find density, that this is more than hunting ground and is more likely a settlement or area of point manufacturing?
They said the best spots are under the vegetable crops at the moment, but as soon as they harvest we're going to do more sweeps. In the meantime I'd be glad to hear people's thoughts on these finds and if there's enough left of my point to get and ID or rough date.
The plow took a chunk out of it, but it still has most features. I'm having trouble nailing down the variety but the material is chert and we're in the hudson river valley if that helps. I also found what I'm pretty sure is a chert knapping fragment:
And several chunks of un-worked chert:
I also found, in a small area, three pieces of red earthen pottery. I'm not as familiar with native pottery so I honestly don't know if these even are native, but if the photos are enough to make a determination I'd be very curious:
After the hour I was pretty excited with the finds so I stopped in at the farm again to show them the recoveries. That's when they showed me the picnic table in the back:
Those are just the knapping fragments they've found in the last few years! They couldn't find the main box of points to show me, but they had three from just the past few weeks hanging around:
I was absolutely floored. Am I correct in thinking, based on the find density, that this is more than hunting ground and is more likely a settlement or area of point manufacturing?
They said the best spots are under the vegetable crops at the moment, but as soon as they harvest we're going to do more sweeps. In the meantime I'd be glad to hear people's thoughts on these finds and if there's enough left of my point to get and ID or rough date.
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