a "wildcard" find for you (Esp. Goldrush!)

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goose3
goose3 Posts: 11,471 ✭✭✭
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the kids and I were in our golf car riding around a 52 acre field across the street picking up field stones to use around our landscaping. I leaned out of the cart to snag one and this caught my eye.

my 8 year old boy was ecstatic!

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  • goldrush00013
    goldrush00013 Posts: 2,478 ✭
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    Cool find Goose!

    That's what's known as a Shallow Side Notched Point . It's made of Grey Coshocton and dates to around 3,000 B.C.

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  • goose3
    goose3 Posts: 11,471 ✭✭✭
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    Awesome!

    we got a nice rain last nite......I can hear scads of them calling out to me from across the street!


    I haven't looked for them for 15 or more years. I think it will be fun for my son and I to do.....that is if we can find some more.


    what's really ODD about this field......is that not long ago (last summer) the NUTJOB that lives against the one edge of it found an OLD and I mean OLD gravestone that looked to have been crudely made....back in his woods adjacent to this. He didn't dig it up or anything so who knows what might be around here.
  • goldrush00013
    goldrush00013 Posts: 2,478 ✭
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    << <i>I think it will be fun for my son and I to do.....that is if we can find some more. >>



    Good luck! If he takes a good interest in hunting, you should take him to the Archeological Society meeting this Fall. You both will be awestruck by the artifacts that will be displayed there. If he makes some finds he can enter them in the field find display and possibly win himself a cool ribbon.

    Link to ASO
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  • goose3
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    we went out between showers on Saturday for a bit.......found all of these (including the first one which is also in this second pic) on the east side of a small hill.

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  • Longacre
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  • goldrush00013
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    Nice follow-up Goose!

    Hopewell point made of Black Coshocton flint. (200 BC-600 AD)
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    Fishspear point made of what looks like Pipe Creek Chert from Sandusky County. (4,000 - 5,000 BC)
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    BTW- if you can get away Sunday, you should come to the ASO meeting at the Aladin Shriner's Temple on Stelzer Road in Columbus.
    I'll be there checking out all the cool relics.
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  • goose3
    goose3 Posts: 11,471 ✭✭✭
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    I'd love to but I'll be at work from 6-6.image


    what is the big thing on the top left?

    it was something and it was big. it's missing a chunk on each end.
  • phut
    phut Posts: 1,087 ✭
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    Wow!! Nice finds goose3
  • goldrush00013
    goldrush00013 Posts: 2,478 ✭
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    << <i>what is the big thing on the top left?

    it was something and it was big. it's missing a chunk on each end. >>



    Hard to tell really. Mid-section to a large blade? Looks like good quality Coshocton Gray flint.
    Appears to have fire popping on the right hand edge. Flint has moisture and when it is heated really hot the water within will expand till the pressure explodes slivers of flint everywhere.
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