The Best Find Of My Life

monsterrack

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Apr 15, 2013
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Ok I'm still pumped up so I hope I don't make mistakes on this post. I went back to my poverty point site because the farmer told me he had burned and disk the field and I could do what ever I wanted to in his fields. So I got my shovel, bucket and screen and hit it at dawn. I have been finding things on one little rise, so that's where I dug at. First thing I found I didn't know what it was till I washed it off. I think it is a pottery game piece that did not get finished. pp finds 9-15-13 013.JPGpp finds 9-15-13 014.JPGpp finds 9-15-13 017.JPGYou can see that it is concave on both sides and they ground on the edges trying to make it round. Then I found some other items pp finds 9-15-13 005.JPGpp finds 9-15-13 006.JPGpp finds 9-15-13 029.JPGpp finds 9-15-13 021.JPGI was getting tired by now I was only going 1ft to 1 1/2ft deep but I had done dug a 6x6 area and sifted it all. Then I found this.pp finds 9-15-13 018.JPGpp finds 9-15-13 019.JPGpp finds 9-15-13 033.JPGpp finds 9-15-13 035.JPGIt's just a crinoid stem fossil, but I have never seen one of this color in this area, most are just brown chert. This gave me a little more juice to hunt some more, I was ready to stop and I thought just one more scoop, and then this showed up on the screen.pp finds 9-15-13 003.JPGpp finds 9-15-13 004.JPGpp finds 9-15-13 009.JPGpp finds 9-15-13 010.JPGpp finds 9-15-13 011.JPGI thought I was going to faint and wet my pants at the same time. This has been my Holy grail, my number 1 on my bucket list, I could not get my breath. I was in shock for 15 min. I still can't get over it and may not for a long time. Here are some pics of it cleaned.pp finds 9-15-13 037.JPGpp finds 9-15-13 038.JPGpp finds 9-15-13 039.JPGpp finds 9-15-13 040.JPGpp finds 9-15-13 041.JPGpp finds 9-15-13 042.JPGpp finds 9-15-13 045.JPGI have only seen ones like this one in a museum. I am still in shock.
 

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pot bellied owl :icon_scratch: I 'm thinking it looks like a red tailed hawk . What is that red stone ??? , I find those and dark blue stones in a few fields up here in South Jersey ............ :headbang:

Great find monsterrack


dawg
 

Very cool looking piece. What sort of time period are we talking?
 

Man rack, I had to come back and look at this again. Such a beautiful piece. Here I am stuck at work when I should be shoveling some dirt!!
 

All jokes aside, I think I would have to try to buy this land. Those are finds of a life time and deserve banner recognition!
 

Wow!!!! I love that, congratulations on the find and the banner....that's just sweet!
 

That is one super special find! Points are one thing that my friend is quite another.
 

Big Congrats !

pot bellied owl :icon_scratch: I 'm thinking it looks like a red tailed hawk . What is that red stone ??? , I find those and dark blue stones in a few fields up here in South Jersey ............ :headbang
dawg

The stone is red jasper. I have been finding some on this site for a few hunts. They traded stone from all over, it was their main import.
 

All jokes aside, I think I would have to try to buy this land. Those are finds of a life time and deserve banner recognition!

If I could buy it I would ,but this man does not need money, he told me he thinks he owns over 100,000 acres all together. So for right now I don't need the cow as long as I can get the milk. Ha Ha:laughing7:
 

Thanks to everyone for the banner votes and for your compliments :notworthy:I promise you though I'm still in shock.
 

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That is one nice find and to think, you've just scratched the surface. Hope the hole keeps getting bigger with more and more finds like that!
 

Congrats on a great find and banner... that is amazing.
I hope you have many more awesome finds to come.
Thanks for sharing it.
 

pp finds 9-15-13 001.JPGI wanted to show the first view of it when I drop the dirt on the screen, it was playing peek a boo. I also found this stone don't know what it is, looks like a piece of amber but it is to hard and heavy to be amberpp finds 9-15-13 007.JPG
 

that is a little agate...chalcedony it seems to be....
 

That is absolutely amazing. Thanks for sharing it with us. Good luck in future hunts.
 

Oh WOW what a find! I was at the Poverty Point museum just a month or so ago, you're right, that little figural owl is THE holy grail of PP culture artifacts! Big pat on the back!
 

Congrats on making Banner on it monsterrack. It sure is a nice piece.
 

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