Posted by NCWayne on June 21, 2012 at 20:42:50 from (69.40.232.132):
In Reply to: In field find posted by Don-Wi on June 21, 2012 at 18:10:16:
I was in the Eastern part of NC last week working on a dozer where they had been clearing and grading for a large horse pasture. As I worked around the machine I kept seeing chips that I knew from past experience were created by hand flaking things like arrow heads, etc. I told the operatore what I was seeing and mentioned that I had never seen that many chips and not found an arrow or spear head. I asked if he had found anything but he said that he never really paid any attention to things like that but rather just pushed the dirt.
When I reached a stopping point on the first day I still had an hour or so of daylight left si I started looking around the truck. Took me about ten minutes to find a freshly broken spear head lying about 20 feet from the truck. About 30 minutes later I was looking around a big pile of top soil they had pushed up for future use and found what I swear looks like a tomahawk head. If it's not one then it's the closest thing I have ever found to one and has to be at least the beginnings of one.
Like you said, finding things from the past in the middle of what was nothing but several hundred acres of forest until it was cleared is amazing to me. How long has it lain there hidden. In your case possibly well over a hundred years, in mine a hundred years, two hundred years, possibly even more. I'd love to find a way to go back in time and be standing there watching when the item was lost, to be able to see what happened. Did it fall from someone's pocket, in the case of an arrow or spear head was it thrown at some animal that carried it away and died, or was it simply thrown away in favor of a new, better one. It would be an amazing journey to say the least........
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