saturday afternoon

[larson1951]

T Witko, Russy and myself went out for a little bit and had a little luck

T Witko found the nice KRF point
Russy found the cooper hook, scoria bead, and the heartbreaker scoria game piece on the road..it got run over and was broke, images 14 and 15 is a broke knife handle, the slot in it was for puttin a blade in and haftin, it was about two and one half times as long as what is there and it had a blade like the broke chert one in image 4 and 6
i found the porcenalite point and the chard with small finger/nail impressions
the nickel is russys and i forgot what year it is
the last two pictures are of a spent piece of bone bead stock
the white point is the same style as that KRF point that kelly
has found except the bottom corners are broke off and missing,
the tip has impact damage, it is a prarie side notch style
most of the area is not walkable because of snow and mud but a few midden tops were ok to walk

 

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[Twitch]

Nice haul! That white-ish point with the damage is kind of an unusual style for you, isn't idea. Any idea what it is?

Nice nickel, what year is it? (whenever one of rock hunting buddies finds something great and sends out a pic for us all to be jealous of, standard protocol is to have 50 questions or comments about all the other crap in the picture but to ignore the great piece)

 

[T Witko]

My Saturday find with Steve and Russ.

Yeah, it was a great day. Especially since it's only the middle February and we were able get some hunting in. Here's another look at the KRF point I picked up. That copper fish hook Russ found is an extremely rare find, at least for us. I believe it's the first ever for our site.

 

[GatorBoy]

Nice haul! That white-ish point with the damage is kind of an unusual style for you, isn't idea. Any idea what it is?

Nice nickel, what year is it? (whenever one of rock hunting buddies finds something great and sends out a pic for us all to be jealous of, standard protocol is to have 50 questions or comments about all the other crap in the picture but to ignore the great piece)

Absolutely standard.
Great finds!

 

[pickaway]

Looks like a good walk was had...

 

[rock]

I couldnt wait either if I had a hunting place like that.

 

[larson1951]

ok twitch
yup the nickel is a new commemorative nickel

 

[old digger]

That hook is an amazing find! I bet there are more of that transitional type of artifacts there.

 

[coteau]

Wow a copper fishook that is incredible... Man that site would be fun to metal detect, but then all those cool copper pieces would be picked over and cleaned out. Maybe it's better to not metal detect a wonderful site like that....

Cool finds, love the clinker game piece and bead.

 

[SouthernGirl]

Outstanding! I would never get anything done if I had a spot to hunt like that. Glad your weather is nicer.

 

[larson1951]

Wow a copper fishook that is incredible... Man that site would be fun to metal detect, but then all those cool copper pieces would be picked over and cleaned out. Maybe it's better to not metal detect a wonderful site like that....

Cool finds, love the clinker game piece and bead.

hey thanks coteau
ok sorry for saying scoria again my friend, you are right
since we live in the same area i gotta take you HH'ing some day

 

[coteau]

Thanks for the invite!

You can call it scoria LOL, everyone in ND calls it scoria. Keep calling it scoria it sounds better than clinker anyway...LOL

Scoria is not a geologically correct term but a "folk" term. I think it misleads people into thinking that it was of volcanic origin, so that's why I think the geological correct term "clinker" should be used. But the term "clinker" might confuse people too because the material left over from burning coal in a stove is also called clinker, and it doesn't look like the clinker that is formed by coal burning underground and baking the clay and other rock...

Also, the high grade (knappable) variety of clinker is called porcellanite.

 

[bci101tractors]

Your finds are always fascinating, Larson. I'm so glad you post them. Thanks so much for sharing your finds and I hope the weather will cooperate so I too can have some finds to share.

 

[coteau]

I found this video on youtube. It explains clinker and porcellanite. Porcellanite is an awesome lithic material because it is sooo smooth. The video was shot in Northeast Wyoming but the same materials (clinker and porcellanite) are in western North Dakota.