Here's some stuff we found today.

Leonard found these. Anyone know what types?









I busted these. whoops

Hey, Travis. I tried to email you a week or so ago. Just thought I'd let you know your not alone in Palo Pinto county.

Not sure what those are called but I find a lot of stuff made out of the material on the right. Are you digging or surface hunting?

Give me a holler anytime.

Hi Travis, I wouldn't want to name the point in the right, pointed on both ends does not always a Harahey make !

However I am POSITIVE about the point on the LEFT, its a BLADE...broken in THREE PIECES.

If those two slabs really have a bit of a depresion from grinding, they ARE treasures, not everyone has one of those.

All nice finds, somebody just has to work on their non breaking skills !

SH
When you break them you have more artifacts to add to you collection. Are we doing it wrong? Isn't more better. Sometimes stuff just comes out that way.

Your doing fine Leonard........no I wouldn't recommend digging for matates with a dental pick either! My last limestone matate weighed 200lbs, and it still came out with pick marks on it (because it came out upside down).
The late archaic knife looks worthy of restoration (left), and as for the mystery blade (right), of which I have seen before is also a knife, but these double pointed ones have yet to be given a type name, or so I'm told. It's a definite keeper. You didn't slip a caddoan blade in to tease us did you?

Hi Leonard, Yes more is good. Nobody should worry about breakages, I understand that after the first $5,000. Corner tang comes out in four pieces, each worth $1.97 the breakages slow down considerably !

Alot of time one can determine the type of point a metal digging tool found just by the sound. For instance MONTELLS are very thin, say a 4 inch one will give off a high pitched " tinkle ", sort of like a very expensive bone china tea cup disintegrating.
A very large PERD is much chunkier and might have a lower pitched sound more like Walmart crockery.

And something as sturdy as a Mamoth slaying, thick, 7 inch CLOVIS sounds like an ordinary flint core block.

Typical Scallorn or Wa****a preform and a small first stage Harahay knife.

HaHa! Nice edit on the W-a-s-h-i-t-a.

LOVE how this programs edits sometimes!!

That wasn't even right! hehe

Thanks!
Michelle