More Spring Finds

[undertaker]

As the weather here in Vermont starts to get warmer I tend to get out more searching for artifacts. The few fields that are plowed from last fall still give up a point here and there. Hope the farmers open up more fields this year but I never count on it. Every year I see more and more fields grassed over. Some I know are only temporary but others have been sold off to developers as farming has downsized here in the past. The month of may is when alot of fields here will be turned over. Sad to say a half dozen of my favorite fields probably won't be on that list again this year. Here's some pics of a recent search.

 

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[undertaker]

A few more pics.

 

[GMD52]

Undertaker,

The season is here, looking at your photo's, it looks very close to here on the lake. Checking some of the shoreline here on Lewis Creek, where it enters the lake, I found the first point, although broken, of the year. Good luck and HH, maybe we'll run into each other.

 

[undertaker]

GMD52 , nice to meet you If I aready havn't. I have meant a hand full of artifact hunters here in Vt. in the past , more latly than ever. I was honored to meet a few that have been into this hobby long before me and have collections that are very impressive. Alot of my finds are north of Rutland stopping just north of Burlington. I have found a few south but have not researched it as much as I would like. My father showed me what to look for when duck hunting Lake Champlain when I was a teen. I have had a lot of fun hunting artifacts since.

 

[GMD52]

We should combine two passions. Family and friends have duck hunted here at the confluence of Lewis, and Little otter creek since the 40's. Know the approximate location of an old turtle hunting and fishing camp, and rock shelter in the area. Best of the outdoors are right here in the area. Hope to see you along the waterways, HH

 

[rock]

Nice Gouge

 

[undertaker]

Thanks Rock, It does have some plow damage on the back end that doesn't show in pic. I have some smaller ones I have found but are lightly gouged in the center and almost have more of a celt like appearence. This is a really good example and the only for sure gouge in my collection. I know that these were important tools in the making of canoes. Does anyone know if this type tool was used for anything else. Im sure it had many purposes.

 

[rock]

Just wood as far as I know. I have found a few Adzes but no Gouges. Always nice to see one. Charl when he comes around knows them very well.

 

[dlos]

undertaker, what is the speckled oblong piece in your first set of pictures, bottom left? Looks like a bird egg? Nice finds! I have a cousin in the Poultney area who has dabbled with artifact hunting and hasn't had much, if any, luck. You guys are proving they are there!

 

[Charl]

Always enjoy seeing stuff from New England. I'm not a gouge expert, but I own quite a few and have found one in Ma. Yours is a plain gouge, with a nice full length scoop. very nice find! They are tools for cutting wood or charred wood. They come in all sizes for different wood working jobs, the really large ones for hollowing out dugout canoes. The others you mention finding sound like they may be adzes, not celts. The adz looks very similar with a beveled leading edge and sometimes a shallow trough. Gouges are more common in New England then most other regions. Very nice finds, nice to see the snow leaving. We hope!