Lone Star
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- Jan 6, 2010
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I was helping an old friend of mine go through hundreds of points and pottery items so she could get and idea of value prior to selling.
Ms. Beth has lived on her family land for 78 of her 88 years. This land is a swath of wild shoreline along Trinity Bay which one of the four bays Known collectively as Galveston Bay. Trinity Bay is on the top northeast of Galveston Bay which includes a large part of Chambers County, which includes Smith Point and Anahuac, Texas. Most of the original shorelines along much of this bay show thousands of years of prehistoric occupation with the massive amounts of Rangia Clam Middens left behind.
Ms Beth started walking the shorelines as a young girl and continued to this day. Albeit not as much now due to age. The quantity of points and pottery she aquired through the years is incredible !!
She had found this Boatstone in the early 70's a few hundred feet from her home. It had washed out of the bank which consisted mainly of earth and clamshells. Boatstones and other carved and pecked items are extremely rare in Texas, usually being from Mississippian Peoples, not hard scrabble hunter gatherers that lived on the shores of Galveston Bay. She had no idea of what it was until last week when I recognized it for what it was.
AS of this post, I have heard of only 5 other Boatstones found anywhere in Texas. I'm sure there are more, but they are rare here non the less. I couldn't wait to share this cool artifact.
Ms. Beth has lived on her family land for 78 of her 88 years. This land is a swath of wild shoreline along Trinity Bay which one of the four bays Known collectively as Galveston Bay. Trinity Bay is on the top northeast of Galveston Bay which includes a large part of Chambers County, which includes Smith Point and Anahuac, Texas. Most of the original shorelines along much of this bay show thousands of years of prehistoric occupation with the massive amounts of Rangia Clam Middens left behind.
Ms Beth started walking the shorelines as a young girl and continued to this day. Albeit not as much now due to age. The quantity of points and pottery she aquired through the years is incredible !!
She had found this Boatstone in the early 70's a few hundred feet from her home. It had washed out of the bank which consisted mainly of earth and clamshells. Boatstones and other carved and pecked items are extremely rare in Texas, usually being from Mississippian Peoples, not hard scrabble hunter gatherers that lived on the shores of Galveston Bay. She had no idea of what it was until last week when I recognized it for what it was.
AS of this post, I have heard of only 5 other Boatstones found anywhere in Texas. I'm sure there are more, but they are rare here non the less. I couldn't wait to share this cool artifact.
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