Ancient Digs! + In Situs!

[sandchip]

Another one.

 

[lexdigger]

Heres the reverse. Never could trace back the initials? Found property owner records back to the 1840's and there is even an old graveyard on the property with headstones dating back to the same time period. I always imagine it belonging to a girl whos boyfriend or husband was off fighting in the civil war. I'm sure she was heartbroken when she lost it!!!

Hey, BTW Kelley... this is Chris Capley from Kentucky... friends with TBOZ

 

[sandchip]

In the wall, (on my land).

 

[sandchip]

In hand.

 

[sandchip]

In the sun.

 

[sandchip]

Beautiful coin, Lexy, and one helluva find. I found an Indian head penny, and I mean perfect, in a field when I was about nineteen, walking with my girl after Sunday dinner. I MADE her take it because I thought she was upset that I found it. That wasn't it. IDIOT!

 

[Ohio Rob]

Lexdigger - Very nice. It's funny how the flute and dovetail in your first picture jumps right out at ya. It makes it easy to overlook some of the exremely fine smaller points.

 

[bearswede]

Pottery shards eyeballed on the surface of a construction site. Archeologists dug there after I reported my finds!

Kudos, Chris! That's the way to do it...

Ron

 

[bearswede]

Hello Mr. Swede,

Hey, Kelly... Glad you joined the discussion... Lots of fantastic eye-candy on this thread, for sure...Most of the gang seem open to the science/history aspects of collecting...And that's good...

You're into poisons now, huh...? I was dabbling in skull & bones for a bit before I retired myself...

Ron

 

[lexdigger]

Thanks Rob. Yeah, the Dovetail and Clovis are the first two that most people notice! LOL The Dove is about the most beautifull piece of flint I've found and it was recovered from dozer tracks on a construction site! The Clovis has to be the most rare and came out of a plowed tobacco field. They don't plow that field every year and I DREAM of the day I get to walk it again!!! Even though those two are about the BEST rocks I've ever found, there are plenty more in those frames that mean AS MUCH to me... if not more!
Thanks Ron. I don't find sites worth reporting very often. Most of the time they just don't have the time or resources to invest into the small sites I find and hunt. They are almost Never interested in any of the historic stuff like dumps and privies. Most of the time my surface finds are isolated and out of context.