indiangiver
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- Dec 2, 2012
- 3
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- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
First time posting, my uncle who treasure hunts told me I may find some answers here!
Near the town of Lancaster, SC I have found a large rock outcrop in the woods near a creek that runs through my property. The rocks have formed a cave (more like a big rock room, not a real underground cave). I had a hunch that Indians probably used this as natural shelter, and I was right! I went in and scratched a little dirt and began finding pottery. Went back the next day with supplies, little plastic shovels, a sifter, gas lantern, headlamp etc. and began working, slowly and meticulously scratching the dirt away from a small area I had picked out. I have yet to find an unbroken pottery bowl but have begun to piece the broken ones together.
I know only a little about the Indians that lived here. I have found their arrowheads in our fields since I was a boy, but the pottery and tools in this cave are surprising. If any of you can point me to a good book I would love to find out more of the history. Or maybe some of you can tell me some facts about these people, let me know what you think!
This is a rim of a bowl, the pottery looks burnished
Another rim piece, unburnished
This appears to be part of a peace pipe, this is the bowl part of the pipe. I wonder what these Indians smoked??
This is a bone fragment that looks like it was whittled to make a point. My thoughts are they used this to draw designs in their pottery
These are two pieces of coal from a fire, I have found many coal fragments at various depths in the ground
These are the arrowheads that came from the cave
These little 'Yadkin Points' are my favorites, I have never found little points like these in the fields
I think this is a scraping tool, there are very fine serrated edges, sharp enough to cut me
You can see the scraping tool's transparency, this stone is not local to my area. I think this stone is found in the Appalachian mountains, which means it may have been handed down through trade
This is an interesting item, it is the base of a deer antler and when I hold the piece it feels like it would have made the perfect handle for a tool!
Near the town of Lancaster, SC I have found a large rock outcrop in the woods near a creek that runs through my property. The rocks have formed a cave (more like a big rock room, not a real underground cave). I had a hunch that Indians probably used this as natural shelter, and I was right! I went in and scratched a little dirt and began finding pottery. Went back the next day with supplies, little plastic shovels, a sifter, gas lantern, headlamp etc. and began working, slowly and meticulously scratching the dirt away from a small area I had picked out. I have yet to find an unbroken pottery bowl but have begun to piece the broken ones together.
I know only a little about the Indians that lived here. I have found their arrowheads in our fields since I was a boy, but the pottery and tools in this cave are surprising. If any of you can point me to a good book I would love to find out more of the history. Or maybe some of you can tell me some facts about these people, let me know what you think!
This is a rim of a bowl, the pottery looks burnished
Another rim piece, unburnished
This appears to be part of a peace pipe, this is the bowl part of the pipe. I wonder what these Indians smoked??
This is a bone fragment that looks like it was whittled to make a point. My thoughts are they used this to draw designs in their pottery
These are two pieces of coal from a fire, I have found many coal fragments at various depths in the ground
These are the arrowheads that came from the cave
These little 'Yadkin Points' are my favorites, I have never found little points like these in the fields
I think this is a scraping tool, there are very fine serrated edges, sharp enough to cut me
You can see the scraping tool's transparency, this stone is not local to my area. I think this stone is found in the Appalachian mountains, which means it may have been handed down through trade
This is an interesting item, it is the base of a deer antler and when I hold the piece it feels like it would have made the perfect handle for a tool!
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