Who is finding some rocks?

[sorefeet]

I know some of yall hunt rocks. Benny, with all this rain I know you musta got out to walk a rock some. Here's a few tring to hide.

[bigwater]

good job..

ya know my cousin use to find lots of arrowheads up on grenader lake...

that reminds me of a story out on those mudflats one december...

we called ourselves duk hunting... but my crew spent the whole time stuck on our 4 wheelers and my cousin never paid us no attention.. he just kept on lookin for his arrowheads..

that days bag consisted of 2 hooded mergansers one canada goose and bout a dozen arrowheads... i don't think we were over the limit.. ha ha

oh yea did i mention that we got stuck.. stuck stuck stuck..

those flats were so bad that the three topwaters that were with me.. haven't duk hunted since then...

[webfoot]

Great find, loved the days as a kid in the Delta looking for arrowheads.

[Wingman]

Awesome!

I know an older fellow that used to live around Belzoni that would walk the inside slope of drained fishponds and find lots of them.

They tell me the flood control reservoirs are great places to find them and I would think those points are in much better shape than the ones down in the flatland that have been chipped and churned up by the farm implements over the years.

Great pics!

[sorefeet]

Those are all river/creek bank finds in madison co. al. No doubt you find more complete points from natural errosion. Its kinda a love hate relationship with the plow, it digs them up but it tears them up.

Nothing like a combo duck/rock hunt.

[Duckmanhar]

Is that a clovis sticking out of the sand? in Pic 5 :shock:

[sorefeet]

No... it a snap base kirk. Here is a scan of them for a close up look. Wish it was the clovis. Ain't found one of those yet.




Also found a broken bannerstone. Looks like its made of polished greenstone.

[sorefeet]

The river is very high now after all this rain. Rain is slowing the farmers down here a bit. I don't have but one decent field to walk. Wish the farmers would have hit the ground hard before this last 3 day washer hit. If this river get right there will be some good rocks washed out... you better drop the books and come on Ben

[sorefeet]

They say alabama red clay won't grow nothing but cotton but it grows a bunch of arrowheads too.

Found this Lost Lake in a field today. Its the first lost lake I have ever found. A few plow dings but its a cool rock.

[Wingman]

Well, y'all made me do it. I went out this afternoon about an hour before dark and looked. Talked to my neighbor and he had just found 2 down the road.

Do you use any old maps to find the best locations?

[Duckmanhar]

boy If i could figure how to place a photo on this site??

found some in the back yard digging for a new grill pad. was told by a pro. that my rocks were made over 9000 years ago! so much for the therory of evoolution?

Still find it intresting that how man ca survive

[sorefeet]

That rock in the last pic is a southern Hardin... it isn't a lost lake or a kirk. I looked it up in the book.


High ground next to water will have rocks. The fewer high ground spots near water the better. It narrows things down a bit. Bluff shelters in the hill/mountains too (facing south out of the north wind is best)


Would love to see your rocks. email them to me and I'll post them.

[Wingman]

So you're saying the ridges along these larger bayous are good places to look?

Benny, weren't you telling me that old mounds that had been leveled would show up as a white ring with darker center on these aerials?

I've located one on an aerial, and also on a top map. It says "Indian mound" on the topo but I know the mound is now leveled. It shows up as a huge white ring with a darker center (looks like about 5 acres in size). Also found a couple more "rings" at a couple of places where two waterways connect....just like you said.

What was the significance of the mounds? I've read a little about them but were they ceremonial, or where the chief's house was? Were some trash mounds and some burial mounds?

[crow]

Any high ground near a creek or river will have a darker, near black color to the soil due to the layers of ash and charcoal from fires. Usually, there will be a high shell content in the soil from the mussels. You can really see the dark soil from the air right now, Wingman. There are some bodacious spots along the Big Black. Some very overlooked places are near some of the larger towns, usually on the outskirts. Guess the Indians liked the same ground for a reason. Find you a high spot with the signs above and wait for the first rain after disking and check it out. Or, look for an eroded area nearby. Spent many a day walking those fields with my late Father-in-law. It sure helped that he was the county agent and had access to all the fields in the county! At one time, Mr. white had two fifty gallon drums full of points.

[gator]

benny, i see a BIG circle whose approximate LAT=33.38 and LONG= -90.772. is this the "circles" you're referring too? it looks like a HUGE area so i'm guessing no.

i have found a rock in a pond bank on my dad's place along time ago, and a few on some creeks in south ms, and have always been intriqued by this but don't know where to start...

i would imagine the natchez area (particular around st. cath) might be a good spot for looking too? gator