May 12, 20196 yr I love it when cool, unexpected shit is discovered. A Roman beaker just emerged from the Thames river mud. Dates from 70-160 AD. Edited May 12, 20196 yr by Horn Under a Bad Sign
May 12, 20196 yr 17 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said: That thing was in a Frontgate catalog Ahh the Mediterranean salt and pepper grinders
May 12, 20196 yr While cruising up & down the Thames in London last summer, I remarked to my Brit host friend that it must be a fascinating hobby to be a local “ mud larked”, what with 2,000+ years of lost stuff to find.
May 13, 20196 yr But seriously... this thread is timely. My friend from Jalisco sent me this pic of something he found on his father's land. Definitely not an arrowhead, more like a Tomahawk missile. Anyone ever seen one this size and what information I might be able to find out about it for him? Sent from my SM-J700T using Tapatalk
May 13, 20196 yr Looks like an obsidian notched spear point. Fantastic looking. Could be Mayan, similar to this: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/mayan-mecca-obsidian-notched-blade-or-spear google image search “mahogany obsidian dovetail” and you’ll see a bunch of similar ones. Edited May 13, 20196 yr by Judge Roybeanbag
May 13, 20196 yr 1 hour ago, Longhornstampede said: But seriously... this thread is timely. My friend from Jalisco sent me this pic of something he found on his father's land. Definitely not an arrowhead, more like a Tomahawk missile. Anyone ever seen one this size and what information I might be able to find out about it for him? Sent from my SM-J700T using Tapatalk WOAH. That thing is probably worth a shit ton of money. I've never seen anything like that.
May 13, 20196 yr I'm pretty sure that's a modern reproduction. Think about it - what practical use did a subsistence native have for that? He wasn't hunting dragons. Look at how big of a tree trunk you would need to haft that thing. You couldn't pick it up, much less throw it. And any ritual piece would be far more finely worked than that. An artifact with any age to it, lying in the dirt for any length of time would produce a dull oxidation on the surface called the "patina". That has none. That said, this is a great idea for a thread and as many country boys and hunters as we have on this site, I'll be there are quite a few authentic collections out there. I have a few dozen of my own collected in Lee, Polk and Williamson Counties. So let's see some of what you guys have picked up. I am very interested.
May 13, 20196 yr 2 hours ago, DoobieWah said: I'm pretty sure that's a modern reproduction. Think about it - what practical use did a subsistence native have for that? He wasn't hunting dragons. Look at how big of a tree trunk you would need to haft that thing. You couldn't pick it up, much less throw it. And any ritual piece would be far more finely worked than that. An artifact with any age to it, lying in the dirt for any length of time would produce a dull oxidation on the surface called the "patina". That has none. That said, this is a great idea for a thread and as many country boys and hunters as we have on this site, I'll be there are quite a few authentic collections out there. I have a few dozen of my own collected in Lee, Polk and Williamson Counties. So let's see some of what you guys have picked up. I am very interested. Natives needed it to ward off the White Walkers
May 14, 20196 yr 34 minutes ago, Matuka said: got one of those at a Stuckey's in the 70's Whole lotta New Age folks descended on Mexico in '87 for the Harmonic Convergence and bought a lot of hokey trinkets. Some got stoned as shit and dropped their souvenirs.
May 14, 20196 yr Love this stuff! We've found a number of common fossils in our creek bed in the last few months after major rains. Tons of deer hears and several ammonites and steinkerns. I found an old, unspent rifle cartridge out at the ranch in Kimble Co a few months ago. Gave it to my mom, and she did some research to find the caliber. I think the made a little shadow box for it. I'll post pics later, but we think it may have been from a calvaryman at Ft McKavett. We're about 20 miles south of the Fort.
August 6, 20196 yr Finally remembered to snag a picture of the shadow box of the shell we found at the ranch. Pretty cool stuff. From the late 1860s.
August 6, 20196 yr On 5/12/2019 at 8:52 PM, Longhornstampede said: But seriously... this thread is timely. My friend from Jalisco sent me this pic of something he found on his father's land. Definitely not an arrowhead, more like a Tomahawk missile. Anyone ever seen one this size and what information I might be able to find out about it for him? Sent from my SM-J700T using Tapatalk something that big, if real, would be used to cut the skin off the killed prey - before the meat is put on the fire. Probably a hand knife.
August 6, 20196 yr 55 minutes ago, NowThis said: something that big, if real, would be used to cut the skin off the killed prey - before the meat is put on the fire. Probably a hand knife. Then it probably wouldn't have the base that looks like it's meant to be strapped to a pole. It'd have a rounded, fat end that would fit in your palm. Only one side/face would would edged.
August 7, 20196 yr Good thread. Out on my place I’ve found some points, most of them broken and a lot of impromptu scrapers and slicers. But the coolest find was a spot where someone had been knapping, a large piece with smaller pieces around that fit back together mostly. The rock apparently came from Flint Knob, a hill about 5 miles away near Verdes off Hamilton Pool road.
August 7, 20196 yr 3 hours ago, Spaulding Smails said: Finally remembered to snag a picture of the shadow box of the shell we found at the ranch. Pretty cool stuff. From the late 1860s. .50 caliber round pushed by 70 grains of black powder.... That's really awesome. That was one big slug.
August 7, 20196 yr 1 hour ago, Judge Roybeanbag said: Good thread. Out on my place I’ve found some points, most of them broken and a lot of impromptu scrapers and slicers. But the coolest find was a spot where someone had been knapping, a large piece with smaller pieces around that fit back together mostly. The rock apparently came from Flint Knob, a hill about 5 miles away near Verdes off Hamilton Pool road. The first house we lived in was surrounded by 5 acres. There was a rock outcropping, and apparently it was where the local Indians came to make arrow heads, and other stone implements. there were hundreds of pieces of broken points, and lots of flint pieces in a pretty concentrated area.
August 7, 20196 yr 10 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said: The first house we lived in was surrounded by 5 acres. There was a rock outcropping, and apparently it was where the local Indians came to make arrow heads, and other stone implements. there were hundreds of pieces of broken points, and lots of flint pieces in a pretty concentrated area. Yeah, west of Austin there were only a few places where large deposits of chert or flint were. After I did some research I found it was not too far from where I was finding stuff. https://texasbeyondhistory.net/plateaus/images/ap2.html
August 7, 20196 yr 11 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said: The first house we lived in was surrounded by 5 acres. There was a rock outcropping, and apparently it was where the local Indians came to make arrow heads, and other stone implements. there were hundreds of pieces of broken points, and lots of flint pieces in a pretty concentrated area. We have bluffs on our place overlooking a creek that snakes it's way through the property. Whole area covered in native american campsites. We had buckets of arrowheads, scrapers, discarded pieces of flint. There are numerous mounds as well always thought to be trash mounds. Entertained bringing out archaeologists, then decided to leave them alone. What's neat are all the burnt, red rocks (Usually softball to coconut sized). Was always told as a kid they'd put them in the fire, get them nice and hot, then move them into whatever structure they slept in to help keep it warm.
August 14, 20196 yr This is pretty cool. The foundation of the Alamo's long barracks has been located:
August 14, 20196 yr 10 minutes ago, Hornius Emeritus said: This is pretty cool. The foundation of the Alamo's long barracks has been located: They found them under the Taco Bell next door ?
August 15, 20196 yr 18 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said: This is pretty cool. The foundation of the Alamo's long barracks has been located: Calvary courtyard? Maybe they'll find some biblical relics.
August 20, 20196 yr Photos of a German submarine that was sunk in the Gulf of Mexico in World War II:https://www.lmtonline.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Sunken-Nazi-era-U-boat-found-Texas-coast-14360440.php
December 2, 20214 yr Necrobump... Took a walk at Shoal Creek for lunch today and dug up a couple of quick fossils in a couple of minutes... common fossilized shells but I still find that stuff fascinating. Anyone here go digging for stuff like that in Austin? I'd like to take one of my sons to see what we can find. Around Memorial Day we went out to a ranch in Mason and did some digging around... found mostly quartz and "rocks" but I know that area is geologically very rich. Not so much in fossils, I don't think.
December 2, 20214 yr 47 minutes ago, texasdago said: Necrobump... Took a walk at Shoal Creek for lunch today and dug up a couple of quick fossils in a couple of minutes... common fossilized shells but I still find that stuff fascinating. Anyone here go digging for stuff like that in Austin? I'd like to take one of my sons to see what we can find. Around Memorial Day we went out to a ranch in Mason and did some digging around... found mostly quartz and "rocks" but I know that area is geologically very rich. Not so much in fossils, I don't think. besides the very usual mollusc / bivalve shells....... crinoid stem ("texas pop rocks") would be the easiest identifiable and found in texas. a trilobite would be a nice trophy but ive never managed one
December 3, 20214 yr Well this is pretty cool: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/03/world/europe/metal-detector-axe.html
December 3, 20214 yr 20 hours ago, texasdago said: Necrobump... Took a walk at Shoal Creek for lunch today and dug up a couple of quick fossils in a couple of minutes... common fossilized shells but I still find that stuff fascinating. Anyone here go digging for stuff like that in Austin? I'd like to take one of my sons to see what we can find. Around Memorial Day we went out to a ranch in Mason and did some digging around... found mostly quartz and "rocks" but I know that area is geologically very rich. Not so much in fossils, I don't think. Shoal Creek is where my early '90s geology class would go. Ammonites in very rough condition and small fossilized shark teeth were common finds.
December 6, 20214 yr On 12/3/2021 at 11:10 AM, YChang said: Well this is pretty cool: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/03/world/europe/metal-detector-axe.html Well alright then. My first metal detector, as a greedy teen, I found 27 cents, and of that I found a quarter and a penny because I was walking around with a metal detector, staring at the ground.
December 6, 20214 yr Love me some rocks n shit Pyretized ammonite Edited December 6, 20214 yr by jw4381
December 6, 20214 yr Author 2000 Year-Old dagger found:https://news.yahoo.com/discovery-2000-old-dagger-vital-092955506.html
December 6, 20214 yr 3 hours ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said: 2000 Year-Old dagger found:https://news.yahoo.com/discovery-2000-old-dagger-vital-092955506.html guy doing X-Ray: "ah yes, based on the images returned by the machine, i can conclude this is indeed a knife"
November 7, 20223 yr They found them under the Taco Bell next door ?I’m really liking the hard hats necessary to scrape off 1/8 inch of dirt at a time.
November 7, 20223 yr 10 hours ago, jw4381 said: The coast of Maine. schist, SM beat me to it Edited November 7, 20223 yr by Nivek
November 7, 20223 yr My greatgrandfathers farm was outside Groesbeck. In his life he collected a museum’s worth of arrowheads, flint tools, fossils, pottery. He showed me different things when I was four and five; they are my few memories as he died soon after. It was one of the catalysts that drove my interest in history and dinosaurs and Indians. The collection was catalogued and was to be donated to the Limestone County Museum, but someone, likely a lowlife cousin, stole it soon after his death. It’s never turned up.
November 7, 20223 yr Lloyd's Bank Coprolite, also known as the largest fossilized human turd ever found. A Viking took this shit. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lloyds-bank-coprolite THIS PIECE OF FOSSILIZED VIKING poop is so well-preserved, one paleoscatologist called it as “precious as the crown jewels.” Archaeologists have dated the dung back to the ninth century, when what’s now York was ruled by Norse warrior-kings. Paleoscatologists determined that the human who deposited this now-renowned, seven-inch specimen had a diet of meat and bread. Unfortunately for that poor, long-dead soul, they also had a handful of intestinal issues. The scat was scattered with Whipworm and Maw-worm eggs, which would have caused stomach aches and other more unfortunate gastrointestinal symptoms.
November 7, 20223 yr 46 minutes ago, crash_davis said: Lloyd's Bank Coprolite, also known as the largest fossilized human turd ever found. A Viking took this shit. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lloyds-bank-coprolite THIS PIECE OF FOSSILIZED VIKING poop is so well-preserved, one paleoscatologist called it as “precious as the crown jewels.” Archaeologists have dated the dung back to the ninth century, when what’s now York was ruled by Norse warrior-kings. Paleoscatologists determined that the human who deposited this now-renowned, seven-inch specimen had a diet of meat and bread. Unfortunately for that poor, long-dead soul, they also had a handful of intestinal issues. The scat was scattered with Whipworm and Maw-worm eggs, which would have caused stomach aches and other more unfortunate gastrointestinal symptoms.
November 7, 20223 yr 3 hours ago, crash_davis said: Lloyd's Bank Coprolite, also known as the largest fossilized human turd ever found. A Viking took this shit. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lloyds-bank-coprolite THIS PIECE OF FOSSILIZED VIKING poop is so well-preserved, one paleoscatologist called it as “precious as the crown jewels.” Archaeologists have dated the dung back to the ninth century, when what’s now York was ruled by Norse warrior-kings. Paleoscatologists determined that the human who deposited this now-renowned, seven-inch specimen had a diet of meat and bread. Unfortunately for that poor, long-dead soul, they also had a handful of intestinal issues. The scat was scattered with Whipworm and Maw-worm eggs, which would have caused stomach aches and other more unfortunate gastrointestinal symptoms. @Prepuce of Doom Doomlet might find this... uh... interesting.
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