Nice find this week!

[bonedoctor]

I was digging up one thing and happened to stumble across this! Pretty cool! Any experts know anything based on shape? It’s definitely Catlinite.

 

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[Relicgrubber]

Pretty cool find! Congrats!

 

[tnmudman]

Looks like a nice pipe

 

[welsbury]

How about a few more views of it.Different looking.

 

[unclemac]

especially both ends!...don't clean it out!

 

[bonedoctor]

Why not clean it out?

 

[tomclark]

GAWD!

 

[bonedoctor]

 

[unclemac]

Why not clean it out?

to protect the use patina

 

[bonedoctor]

It was full of mud. All I did was put it under the sink for about 15 seconds to blow it out. You can see the smoke stains in it.

 

[bonedoctor]

I dug out the area and the only other thing I came across was three flakes. Rock is not common in my area.

 

[djackson7348]

Cool find!

 

[newnan man]

Very nice pipe! Please put your location in your posts.

 

[quito]

Dang!

those don’t come out of the ground in great shape very often.
that's a banner find in my opinion!

 

[Buckleberry]

banner!

 

[bonedoctor]

Very nice pipe! Please put your location in your posts.

I’m in South Central Kansas. I was just complaining how I’ve only found metal items, though the Indians were here. I was wondering if I would ever find anything from the stone era, and found this. �� This and the flint flakes were all 1 foot deep. Most of the mid 1800s stuff is 4-8” deep. I’m guessing the age and density must put the rock items at 1’ and below. Looking at buying ground penetrating radar!

 

[joshuaream]

I'm not sure if it was this forum or another defunct one, but a collector who used to post found a couple of those on a late Prehistoric site. (Dan Fox if I remember correctly, wrote a book on plains artifacts.)

I think that plump L style is found mostly in Nebraska and Kansas.

 

[bonedoctor]

That’s awesome. A civil war journal stated that the Caddos were on my property at the time they camped.

 

[Tdog]

A banner find for sure. Congrats.

 

[Ponchosportal]

Pardon my ignorance but how do you know it is not modern?