post a cool piece here

here is a bone game piece or ornament that I found summer of 08
I like the patina and simple but tasteful engraving on it
the first image is actual size or very close to it

post something cool here for the purpose of discussion, information, or bragging

Where was this found?  General location, field, creek?

lincha,
it was found in the center of the Dakotas in a field near a dried up creek bank

it was uncovered by a chisel plow at 4-5 inch depth and then washed off by rain

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I guess this would have to my coolest piece and the one I'm most proud of finding.

Found in April of this year on a Ft Ancient site in Scioto county, Ohio.

A Ft Ancient Effigy Pipe. I have had a few people look at this and we all agree that if you turn it upside down it might represent a baby bird waiting to be fed. Definitely one of the top 5 finds of my 44 years of collecting, if not the best.

way cool
I have only found one piece (broke) of a pipe

Here you go, Larson -- a retouched Clovis blade from Allen County, Tennessee. Both tips are worked into gravers, making it a combination knife and limace. Probably made of a lower (non-waxy) grade of Paoli chert that's heavily patinated. I've seen other pieces that are spotted like this, but have no idea why or how this happens.

WOW!!,   Uniface

I need to learn more about these pieces

you really have a nice one there

Larson1951

Sonora Cobbs knife.

Glad you like it, Larson.  

Super pieces, Larson & Thirty7 

 

Great posts...Here is one of my favorites(I have posted it before, but some of you may not have seen it.)

Shell Ear Plug found by my daughter a few years back.  Had no idea what
it was when we brought it home, but thanks to the Internet was able to identify it.
Have found some info. on it, but any additional welcomed.  Note the tally marks.
Found in a plowed field along the Red River(North Dakota-Minnesota border).

I dug into one of my bone cases for these, just to add a little international flare.

Here are a couple of hafted sting ray spine knives that I found many years ago on the lovely island of St. Lucia.  The first one is the best one and is the original handle/knife combo, the others were pieced together from a shell midden on a beach.  The spines are still sharper than an average steak knife.

The bone tube is from the same site, and is completely covered with small hour glass engravings.  It might have been a whistle, it's missing about 1/3 of the back but has a remaining strait edge about where the hole would be for a whistle.

Yeeeeee Hah !!!!!  

Larson has his toy hatchet, I have my toy "unfinished" pipe.  Found in the same
field as the Ear Plug.

Cobbs knife,Tn. Little bear creek, N.Ala  
 
TnMountains

very, very nice guys.thanks for the post mr larson,i have nothing like these great things  jamey

very, very nice guys.thanks for the post mr larson,i have nothing like these great things  jamey

Jamey
You have a post right now with a  fluted point  Where is a pic of the other clovis?

My Covington blade, I just love it..

Molly..

very nice molly,love the picture also  jamey

 

Gorget from Franklin Co. Fla

 This is one of my better halfs finds from 2006 made out of Flattop Chert. Heavely abraded on distal end......always been one of my favorite pieces.

 

 HEY WOW
this getting to be a good thread
lets keep it going
so many nice blades and pieces

hey Dork, what are the chances of that pipe being a fish head rather than a baby bird ?


Larson1951

Clovis point that was picked up thousands of years later by Stanly Culture a rechipped. Has two areas of patination with the heaviest being the original clovis surface. Still retains a flute. 

yes road, very interesting piece

Those Stingray knives are unbeleivable to say the least.  Uniface, that Limace with the gravers on the end is sweet.  Great posts all ya'll.  I guess I need to post something here soon.

very nice molly,love the picture also  jamey

Thanks Jamey.
Excellent thread, some neat artifacts you guys..

Molly..

wow gals and guys.some really cool relics.joshuaream and larson those are excellent.a piece i found this year that i thought was pretty cool for its uniqueness,a notched flint chopper is my guess.

[hey Dork, what are the chances of that pipe being a fish head rather than a baby bird ?]

HEY WOW
this getting to be a good thread
lets keep it going
so many nice blades and pieces

hey Dork, what are the chances of that pipe being a fish head rather than a baby bird ?


Larson1951

Larson, that was my first thought after I picked it up and cleaned the sand off of it. I was really hoping to find some eyes or fins engraved on the side of the Pipe, but there aren't any other carvings on it but the mouth. I took it to the ASO show in Columbus and had a few of the old time collectors look at and they said they thought it was a baby bird and that they had seen that same mouth on other pipes that represented birds.

hey steve whatever it is it is a killr pipe.how did you do with the pieces you placed at the aso show?we left before they had called your categories.

This Post gets the WOW award. Honkey flintmaster flash did I show you that bling I mean flint axe kinda like yours I found??

My daughters first find. Nothing really special about it other than it was her first arrowhead.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/CK7Af6AK0wI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/CK7Af6AK0wI</a>

I still can't figure out what this is

never the less it seems cool

the picture of a papoose wrapped in a blanket with one hand showing and a feather in it's hair is on the large end

the other picture looks like a badger or maybe a turtle??
it seems too big to be a hair pin
the small end shows a lot of wear to the design, it must be from someones thumb
          this may indicate that it was held in the hand quite a bit

Interesting, Lars.  They seem to have really liked badgers and chevrons   

Road Dog : From how pointed the (un-patinated) business end of that is, I wouldn't be surprised if your re-cycled point hadn't been a Cumberland, rather than a Clovis. Clovis tips were blunt as a rule : re-working one to get that kind of tapering point would have taken the patinization off as it did elsewhere on it.

FWIW

Nice artifacts all around folks, quite a show...Here's a Hornstone Dovetail.

 

Very Large Disk Pipe formely in the collections of Col. Bennet Young pictured in his book Prehistoric Man of Kentucky in 1910. Ex Edward Payne Collection pictured in Lengends of Prehistoric Art  in the Payne Gem Case. Ex. Richard K. Meyer from Peoria, Il.

Very nice show folks!! Some great artifacts posted up.

Here are a couple of my oddball finds that I am quite proud of. One is a Buffalo scrapper, and the other is what I like to call my Easter Island pendant.

                                             Twig.

My daughters first find. Nothing really special about it other than it was her first arrowhead.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/CK7Af6AK0wI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/CK7Af6AK0wI</a>

Now that is a cool first find. !! Congratulations to her 

here's a turtle head amulet that i found a few month's ago.

that buffalo is nice!

what kind of rock is it made from?

I found this partial gorget on the TN River in Lauderdale County, AL about 15 years ago.

that buffalo is nice!

what kind of rock is it made from?

Hi Larson,

   Thank You!!

   I beleive the material is a high grade Coshocton flint. We find alot of Coshocton, Upper Mercer, and Flint Ridge in this area.

            Twig.

This is an excellent thread, thanks fellas.  How about that giant pipe.  Any ideas on how it was used or why it would be so big and flat?
Jake

I am wondering about that big disc pipe also
what did the people in that area smoke in something like that way back then???                                                                                                                                                                                       

                                                                                                                       

this is my best "hand fitted" made piece
it has a thumb grove on 1 side and feels great when held like that.

I like all the good pieces that are showing up here

treefrog, very nice blade

larson1951

I post these two together since I found them a couple of inches apart. The point is paleo and made of crytsal quartz. The tiny oval is also crystal. Not sure what it would have been made for. It is only 7/16" long and maybe 3/32" thick or less. 

alabamared nice gorget Mississipian period I would think. I love that river. Roaddog that is musuem quality. Too many good post on here Mr.Larson 

Here's a pretty cool Flint Ridge Clovis found on the West Virginia side of the Ohio river.

Heart attack thirty7 !

Whoa !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here's a pretty cool Flint Ridge Clovis found on the West Virginia side of the Ohio river.

great show everyone,37 you have some explaining to do.lol.first, that fractured base dove is a beauty.and the clovis woodoggy!!!!

Here's a pretty cool Flint Ridge Clovis found on the West Virginia side of the Ohio river.

great show everyone,37 you have some explaining to do.lol.first, that fractured base dove is a beauty.and the clovis woodoggy!!!!

Thanks Flash, ask me a question...fire away. If you wondering if I found them, I didn't they were both purchases. The fractured base dove is from In. it's got a Davis coa g9. The Clovis was found by the landowner near Pt. Pleasant WV , he sold it to a friend, and I bought it from him earlier this year. It' good. 


appreciate the comments folks.

yea you read my mind 37,was just wondering if you found them,some killer stuff dude.that hornstone dove is so nice,been back to look at it 3 times now.I have always thought the fractured base clipped wing variety of dove is the most pleasing to the eye.thx for posting the pix

yea you read my mind 37,was just wondering if you found them,some killer stuff dude.that hornstone dove is so nice,been back to look at it 3 times now.I have always thought the fractured base clipped wing variety of dove is the most pleasing to the eye.thx for posting the pix

I have to agree the fractured base doves are my favorites too, it's not a 3+ inch bragging dove but it's a sweet piece. " thx for posting the pix" anytime bro, have yourself some good holidays.

These are my coolest pieces but still can't compare to yours Larson.

Enjoy.

Wow there are some cool things on here. You guys know more about the Indian stuff than I do but this knife is what I consider one of my better Indian finds. It's about 3 1/2" long. You can't tell in the pic but it has a slight curve to it.

Amazing stuff -- all !!!

vayank54 : Looks like Paoli Chert from Kentucky. (?)  It traveled pretty far back then.

Amazing stuff -- all !!!

vayank54 : Looks like Paoli Chert from Kentucky. (?)  It traveled pretty far back then.

Thanks. I found it in VA about 15 miles south of Manassas.  There were 2 big Indians camps near my mom's and  we found a lot of arrowheads and other things at those sites.

Here are three of my better grayish dovetails. The sonora point was found in Southern Illinois in Gallatin Co, The center fractured base dovetail is a killer. Ex Clem Caldwell pictured in one of Tully's books Christian Co, KY.  the gray dovetail is from Posey Co, IN. All are pretty nice

Been wanting to show this one for awhile.  Found in a dried-up pond in East Central Minnesota a few years ago during a horrible dry spell.  Most recently (200-300 years), Lakota and Ojibwe were in the area.  Could this be one of theirs, or does it pre-date that, or is it just a rock that happens to look like a hatchet?

Here's a pic of a few of my favorites I've found in VA.  the first one is made from a really soft stone almost  like hardened marine clay   I was told that the 3rd one came from Arizona or New Mexico. I can't remember which but I never seen any stone like that one is made from in VA.  The small clear one beside the dime isn't broken. It's just that small. Maybe a bird point or something?

Some of the "second choice" stones they used (of necessity) weather poorly over time -- argellite, for one example.  Pretty good stuff when freshly knapped, but it deteriorates with exposure to the elements to the texture of a poorly-fired, 18th century brick. Even some cherts do this. Possibly it's acidic water that leeches them.

Some of the "second choice" stones they used (of necessity) weather poorly over time -- argellite, for one example.  Pretty good stuff when freshly knapped, but it deteriorates with exposure to the elements to the texture of a poorly-fired, 18th century brick. Even some cherts do this. Possibly it's acidic water that leeches them.

I was wondering. I found a few other smaller points made from the same green stone. I thought maybe they were ceremonial or something as they would be to soft for any real use
Thanks for the info.

I found all three of these Fish Hooks this year. I have been hunting Ft Ancient sites since 1987 and had found only a few broken pieces before this year, so finding three in one year tickled me to death. All three are from the same site as well.

Here is the coolest artifact I have ever found. I call it big bird and it is in the 4th edition of the  Best of the Best  mag page 211.

..all I can say is WOW!

~Coprolite Mike

..all I can say is WOW!

~Coprolite Mike

one of my lucky finds.

killer pipe pick,pack it up 

Some old tools.

Wow !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The smaller ones are beauties !

The large ones look like Levallois technology (?) (!)

great little bowl there pick!


Nice old pieces worthy. This thread delivers...

The pipe is beyond even unbelievable !   

A strikingly similar piece to your middle one, Worthy. Except it's of quartzite, so not as pretty 

killer pipe pick,pack it up 

Thanks that pipe is for sale @ 275 if anybody is interested. pm me...

Uniface. I found the tools many years ago here in Florida so I don't think their as old as the levallois from Europe but they are what we here call paleo tools . They are also unifaced.

Here is some Ohio slate and I just love the color. 

Beautiful color and texture. Nice reed drill holes showing on the slate 88. 
TnMtns

Well, maybe not as cool as bones found by Larson or Joshua, but I like it.  Found it about 20 years ago in a site near the Texas coast - on 2 different days.  It's made from a deer "leg" bone.  I've heard these described as "awls", or "pins", or "stilettos".  It would be cool to look through the "time machine window" and see.   

some of these could be used as skewers for the 'Sundance'

I have a friend who is a Crow Indian
he has done the sundance twice
he has the scars on his back and on his chest from the skewers
he showed me some skewers about 8 years ago
they looked like the ones that Tylocidaris has posted

i always wondered what they did with this one that they had to sharpen into the shape that it is

gorget from north GA.

Owl effigy pendant found in western Kentucky.

Captain Al,

That little Owl looks like a classic Poverty Point relic, beautiful example.

Joshua

the fox field site in kentucky had some owl effigys like that carved out of flourite, what is that one made out of

Spar. I'll try for some better pics after Christmas.

I just love the Limace and large end scraper that I found this year here in Central Texas on Private land near Lake Travis.  They are very well manufactured, and OLD!!!  The material to me is just beautiful.  Both are made out of the same material, and found close in proximity.  Love all the pieces you all are displaying.

My best personal found Adena material Ridge...