Redtaill944
Tenderfoot
- Jan 10, 2013
- 7
- 3
- Detector(s) used
- Fisher 1266x, yeah its old but it works great and it goes deep.
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
This is my first indian artifact find for 2013. I like to walk up and down the rows of grape vines here in wine country and look for arrow points and artifacts, finds are few and far between. I found this serpentine scrapper at a friend's vineyard, it's the only find I found that day. At first I wasn't really sure what I had but I could see tooling marks on it and stuck it in my pocket, the stone stuck out in the row like a sore thumb because of the blue hue, it just didn't belong. I took it to a friend of mine that also collects indian artifacts and has much more knowledge in these types of things to see if he could identify it. After some research and talking to someone that he knows that is an expert in these kind of things, it was identified as a Serpentine scrapper from the Miwok indians that lived in the area some 2000 to 3000 years ago and the stone was most likely obtained from Angel Island in SF bay. I was also told that it's pretty rare, not to many examples of points or tools made from Serpentine stone exist and what does exist is broken.
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