salukihunter
Newbie
- Jan 1, 2013
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- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
All,
This is my first post on the site and soon to be many more. I have been a non-active artifact hunter in my days strolling through the woods. I have found a few artifacts however my father-in-law just passed on his enormous collection to me. I am an environmental educator an use these artifacts solely for the purpose of educating those in my programs however after the inheritance it is now up to us to go through the identification process to get information on history and origin as well as monetary appraisal for insurance purposes. I will be allowing the university and USFS archeologists to also appraise the collection however it would be nice to get second opinions from all of you. I will start with this piece from my personal collection.
Found: During spring thaw in a sandstone shelter bluff drip line. Bluff looked very much like a large area for inhabitation site and i know from others that there have been multiple artifacts found at this bluff.
Color: Deep Red with striation to White or Cream. Unlike coloring of other chert found in the area.
Other Notes: Still very sharp. clean break on dovetail. found broken.
This is my first post on the site and soon to be many more. I have been a non-active artifact hunter in my days strolling through the woods. I have found a few artifacts however my father-in-law just passed on his enormous collection to me. I am an environmental educator an use these artifacts solely for the purpose of educating those in my programs however after the inheritance it is now up to us to go through the identification process to get information on history and origin as well as monetary appraisal for insurance purposes. I will be allowing the university and USFS archeologists to also appraise the collection however it would be nice to get second opinions from all of you. I will start with this piece from my personal collection.
Found: During spring thaw in a sandstone shelter bluff drip line. Bluff looked very much like a large area for inhabitation site and i know from others that there have been multiple artifacts found at this bluff.
Color: Deep Red with striation to White or Cream. Unlike coloring of other chert found in the area.
Other Notes: Still very sharp. clean break on dovetail. found broken.
