Saved some local artifacts from being sold elsewhere.

[Mark Todd]

My nephews girlfriend told me her father had found a lot of artifacts but I presumed that his finds were not as extensive as she spoke. I was wrong he had found a dozen and a half grooved axes and a dozen and a half Celts not to mention some very nice flint.
Here are some of the nice pieces of chert that I purchased from him

 

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[Mark Todd]

Here are the celts I purchased and a plummet and a nice paddle spade...

 

[Mark Todd]

Here are the celts I purchased and a plummet and a nice paddle spade...

 

[newnan man]

Awesome, glad you were able to get those super nice artifacts.

 

[welsbury]

You did well. Some first rate artifacts,great acquisistions.

 

[arrow86]

Nice stuff , I like the celts so he found them all? What state ?

 

[quito]

Nice the all get to stay together.

Do you know if multiple sites, or just one.

 

[sawmill man]

Nice collection.

 

[monsterrack]

Not a thing wrong in that group at all. That was a super score.

 

[scruggs]

Very nice purchase of quality artifacts you made! You will enjoy them.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Great acquisitions Mark. Glad to see you able to keep them all together instead of spread out everywhere. You going to try to get the rest?

 

[joshuaream]

Nice looking group, congrats on keeping them local!

 

[Honest Samuel]

You did good.

 

[Mark Todd]

Thanks to everybody for the congratulations I'm kind of excited local pieces always have a special place.
I'll try to answer the questions that were made.
All but one of the points pictured were found by the person I mentioned. The exception is the Hardin long and thin, fractured and reworked it was purchased by his son from the finder on the tater Creek site in Fulton county. Everything in this guys collection was found by himself except for his father's collection much of which came from Kentucky "hornstone" for the most part and a few pieces he bought at auctions. All of his own finds came from Fulton County Illinois many of them came from his own property I half to 3/4 of a mile west of Dickson mounds museum on a bluff. He once plowed his bluff Hayfield and did not plant it for two years only so he could hunt artifacts. Many of his pieces came from his own property however he also hunted several other places in the county.
Am I going to try to get the rest of them? I'd like to have all of them but his collection is large I've already got most of the best pieces there are few more that I would like to have and will probably pursue. He once found three Celts the same day I wish I could say as much. Some hunt all their life and find no Celts.
All of his stuff is going to auction in the next few months because he wants to purchase some land interesting enough he's willing to give up everything he found because he can plow and hunt another day

 

[dognose]

Very nice.

Is that small hardin made of attica chert? Looks sort like the green.

 

[Mark Todd]

Very nice.

Is that small hardin made of attica chert? Looks sort like the green.

I assume your referring to this one... I'm not so sure that it's a Hardin rather than a heavily resharpened Scottsbluff, due to the width of the stem and the not so pronounced barbs.
Regardless, I think that you may be right that it's made of Attica chert, however there's no "Indiana green" in it. If it's Attica chert it is the the gray variation that contains no inclusions of green glauconite in it.

 

[Mark Todd]

I assume your referring to this one...View attachment 1516698View attachment 1516699 I'm not so sure that it's a Hardin rather than a heavily resharpened Scottsbluff, due to the width of the stem and the not so pronounced barbs.
Regardless, I think that you may be right that it's made of Attica chert, however there's no "Indiana green" in it. If it's Attica chert it is the the gray variation that contains no inclusions of green glauconite in it.

I looked it over with a 45x Loupe and the were definitely no green inclusions in it.