What’s the most unexpected place you’ve found an artifact?

[Older The Better]

I know it’s not much of a point, but that’s not what’s surprising about it, it’s where I found it. I was walking a small pond dam looking to see if anything had washed out in the rain. I walked to the far end and I saw that the muskrat(s) had damed up the pipe that flowed out of the pond. I decided it was probably best to clear it so I started pulling out sticks and hunks of grass and got the water rushing through pretty good. I thought for good measure I should dig out the entire damn not just the top half I reached out and removed a scoop of dirt and grass and I saw this almost glowing in the water sticking out of the dam where I had just scooped. I never ever expected to find an artifact in a pond underwater buried in a muskrat dam.




It inspired me to make this thread I’d love to hear the strangest places others have found artifacts.

 

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[sandchip]

Met my folks in Paducah, KY for Labor Day weekend. I told my dad if there's an arrowhead around, I'd find it. Looked in creek by motel and construction sites. Nothing. Dad and I went to lunch. Along the side of the road I see a purse. We stopped and I grabbed it. Full of little girl cosmetics, toys and things. In the bottom was a nice little Kirk point. I told my dad, "See, I'm good!" Gary

I know this isn't a contest, but if it was, that would probably have to be the winner. Most amazing of all is that little Indian girls were carrying purses way back in Archaic times!

 

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[GaRebel1861]

A while back, I went to Macon Georgia to pick up a surplus state vehicle and drive it back for county use. I looked in the console and there was a fairly nice white quartz point inside waiting to be re-found. I guess the fellows at Georgia Forrestry hunt points too. There’s no telling what part of the state that it came from though.