Ft Ancient Village Site-Scioto County Ohio

[The Grim Reaper]

Everything you see posted here will be a personal find with the exceptions of a few items given to me or a couple I purchased. So, 99.9% of what you see was found by me between the years of 1993 when I found my very first piece on this site and up until the present. The Ft Ancient Village site located here has been carbon dated from around 1000 to 1650 AD, but when it was excavated in the 30's and 40's lots of early Archaic and Paleo pieces were found in the deeper pits. I have found Bifurcate Points in Trash Middens so maybe they found them and made use of some of them again as well.

This site is located in Clay Township in Scioto county Ohio. It sets up on a large plateau that juts out into the river bottoms. The site used to be a lot larger at one time but they removed a lot of it to obtain gravel and fill when the built the new highway back in the mid 20's I believe so there are probably a lot of artifacts buried under Rt 23 at the Clay Overpass. This area is zoned commercial and has numerous businesses located there. The area that is still farmed is owned by a local attorney and off limits, but the long slopes leading down to the bottoms belongs to another person and he allows me to hunt it. I'd say 50 to 60% of what you see has came off that slope, which is a wooded area you basically have to crawl around on to find anything.

The artifacts found on sites like this is just astounding. You could literally fill up a 5 gallon bucket with Pottery within a couple of hours if you chose to. I usually only pick up Rim, Handle, or Decorated pieces now. The Points are all Triangles and some are nicely Serrated. Lots of Bone Tools, Beads of Bone and Shell, Fish Hooks, Deer Antler Arrow Points and Flakers, Drills, Pipes, Flutes, etc. You find a lots of broken and damaged pieces mostly because what we find is eroding from Trash Pits.

The first Pipe you see is by far my best find off the site and probably my best find ever. It has a mouth cut into the bottom so it's an Effigy and it is in pristine condition. It's made from a very fine grained Sandstone. The second Pipe is also an Effigy. It is a Phallic Effigy and that has been confirmed by several well known collectors.

Hope you enjoy the photos and if you have any questions feel free to ask.

 

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[pickaway]

Feurt? if so, amazing how many artifacts came from that site.

 

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[Treasure_Hunter]

Fantastic!

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Feurt? if so, amazing how many artifacts came from that site.

Yes, and it's still giving up pieces. I just went out last week and crawled up and down the hillside and found a few Points, all broken, some Pottery, and a piece on a Pipe.

 

[pickaway]

Yes, and it's still giving up pieces. I just went out last week and crawled up and down the hillside and found a few Points, all broken, some Pottery, and a piece on a Pipe.

That's great !!!!

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Just ran across this while looking for something and thought I'd bump it up with some pictures of recent finds. There are a few other Points and Beads that made it into the best of the best trays that aren't pictured.

Enjoy.

 

[Saguache]

Wow! Great viz candy for a newbie, thx

 

[joshuaream]

Always nice to see your collection Steve. Is that a cut jaw section in the last picture?

Just ran across this while looking for something and thought I'd bump it up with some pictures of recent finds. There are a few other Points and Beads that made it into the best of the best trays that aren't pictured.

Enjoy.

 

[southfork]

Great Site Collection well presented keep up the good work .

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Always nice to see your collection Steve. Is that a cut jaw section in the last picture?

Yes it is. First one I've ever found.

Heres both sides together. I have buddy that found one here that is whole. It still has all of the teeth in the jaw. His us Bobcat.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Outstanding display ! Thanks for posting it.

 

[Huzzah!]

Absolutely wild. Got my blood flowing. Thanks for the post Grim!

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Absolutely wild. Got my blood flowing. Thanks for the post Grim!

Thanks.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Outstanding display ! Thanks for posting it.

Thanks.

 

[RustyRelics]

Amazing collection! I live just below Scioto, across the state line. I can get to Scioto in 15 minutes as the crow flies.

 

[MAMucker]

I could spend hours

 

[Georgivs]

Amazing! what is the soil like? Is there a midden with shells? I've only found bone tools around here when they are in a shell midden (apparently the lime helps preserve the bone?)

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Amazing! what is the soil like? Is there a midden with shells? I've only found bone tools around here when they are in a shell midden (apparently the lime helps preserve the bone?)

Yes, lots of mussel shell everywhere. I had an archaeologist that was digging on this site for a few years tell me the shell helped preserve the bone.

 

[Tnmountains]

Yes, lots of mussel shell everywhere. I had an archaeologist that was digging on this site for a few years tell me the shell helped preserve the bone.

I have never heard that about the shell and bone. I know our shell middens were the trash pits for them and the treasure for us. Constant food source. Also wanted you to know that it is such a nice collection that people have nominated it for banner since you first posted it. Unfortunately Banners of course are not stellar collections but recent finds. Any way people have really enjoyed you sharing this.
Cheers.

 

[A2coins]

Holy moly wow that is so awesome I wish I had stuff like that around here. Thanks for sharing all that

 

[The Grim Reaper]

I have never heard that about the shell and bone. I know our shell middens were the trash pits for them and the treasure for us. Constant food source. Also wanted you to know that it is such a nice collection that people have nominated it for banner since you first posted it. Unfortunately Banners of course are not stellar collections but recent finds. Any way people have really enjoyed you sharing this.
Cheers.

Thank you. I really enjoy sharing it.