Talk About Rare,And Never Know What You Might Find!!!

[timekiller]

Okay still blowing here this morning,so you know the drill,load boat grab MD head for the river!!Tell you though two days of it now starts telling on you.With the wind,sea spray,heat,walking shoreline,and digging.But they say if you didn't like it you wouldn't do it,gotta say I like it!! Anyway found some crazy stuff today.The normal pieces of pipe both settler and indian,buttons,buckles,lead,bottle,old wood bit,and marble.Now the rare,2 indian head pennies,and if that isn't rare enough one a 1861 was shot right dead center.Last thing is half a skull.I'm going to have to say bison.It was found where I've found quite a few of their teeth.Also have found a lot of indian artifacts here as well.It was in a shell bed buried in a smelly black acidic sand.I don't know much about cow horns or bison as this is the only one I've held.Can say no one has lived here since late 1800's as this place is on an island.If anyone could know what it is I'd like to know?

 

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[briankb70]

sorry i can't help but nice assortment just the same

 

[Tank69]

wtg

 

[Moonshadow]

Cool stuff! Nice variety!

HH,
Moon

 

[Mr Tuff]

any chance of any better pics of the second button down with the odd holes on the back? have a odd button with that sort of set up. kinda wondering about the age and type... nice finds...MR T

 

[mlayers]

Nice assortment of finds.....Matt

 

[timekiller]

any chance of any better pics of the second button down with the odd holes on the back? have a odd button with that sort of set up. kinda wondering about the age and type... nice finds...MR T

I'm not sure which one your talking about mrtuff. Is it the one with the gilt look?If it is it don't have holes in it but I see were the pic makes it look that way.The buttons today came from a few different sites on the river ranging from a place that was mid 1700's to the other places early to mid 1800's.If it is I'll take a shot for you!
Timekiller!

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Horn is bison, nice finds.......

 

[garthbfan169]

WTG TK some nice finds you got there! If you find the other horn you could make yourself one sweet hat

 

[timekiller]

Horn is bison, nice finds.......

Thanks on the ID TH!!! Kinda felt it had to be from were it came from.But didn"t what to make the call having never found more then the teeth!If it had been a fish probably could had called it myself!
Thanks again,Timekiller!

 

[allen]

nice assortment of cool finds !!

 

[timekiller]

WTG TK some nice finds you got there! If you find the other horn you could make yourself one sweet hat

Right on with the hat deal!I'm going to keep my eyes out though for the other one!It's got to be there somewere.Might have to put a tater rake on the place!
Thanks garthbfan169!
Timekiller

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

Excellent collection selection!

 

[Carson Coin Master]

nice finds

 

[timekiller]

The fossils are outstanding. I like the Bison horn core.

Thanks plehbah,before I got my detector I mainly giged for bottles and walked the rivers for indian artifacts.I had seen were you have a interest in the teeth,said you had bought some from rock shows or internet.I use to not think much about them if I ran across them.I only wonder now how many I could of had if I picked them all up over the last 25yrs.I realized this past january when I started detecting maybe I should start picking them up,being that it's getting to be alot of people doing this stuff since january have picked up around 114 of them.I see they sell on the internet anywere from 5$ to 15$ if Only I could had sold all I've seen CHi-Ching.But they are getting harder to find and have never found nothing like the horn around here before.It just happened to be in a soil that was preserving it. Thanks plehbah,Timekiller!

 

[Curious The George]

It is fairly well established that there were no bison in NC. And since you are on the coast it would be even more impossible. There has only been one piece of recorded bison bone found on any archaeological dig in NC. The archaeologist figures it was a traded item in that there were no other bison bones on the site.

 

[Jeff(or)]

Cool looking finds, it's amazing sometimes what can be found!

 

[Southcacalaky]

Great job on your finds, Congratulations, HH Art,,,

 

[silvercop]

 

[timekiller]

It is fairly well established that there were no bison in NC. And since you are on the coast it would be even more impossible. There has only been one piece of recorded bison bone found on any archaeological dig in NC. The archaeologist figures it was a traded item in that there were no other bison bones on the site.

Thanks mac for your input,But to say that there where no bison in N.C. or what ever you are saying is just not true from what I read.You see the horn I can't say for sure if it is bison.But I can say I found it here on a river,here on the coast.I also can say that all these teeth I have found came from rivers here on the coast.I also know that they where pretty much every were in the U.S. Coast to Coast.And have read that they where here on the coast as late as 1700's.So knowing that Explain this.......
http://books.google.com/books?id=oj...onepage&q=Lawson north carolina bison&f=false