These are a few of the brokes that go into a seperate box then all the regular brokes. The one below the Bell has basal gringing, The two perdiz brokes, the larger one is on a flake, unworked except the edges and the tail. The clear perdiz wing and tail (yeah it took me awhile to figure out that it was a broken perdiz) is worked on both sides.
And the tip/tail of the bottom one was found in the dirt ridge left behind by a maintainer. I scratched around like a chicken for half an hour trying to find more of it. And the black point is finely serrated.

Heartbreakers suck. They're better than finding nothing though. Great pics T.

Top one is the closest thing we found to a c-tang. Wife found it in a peanut field.

Even before you posted the second note on that top one, I thought it looked like a bat wing bell Ctang !

IF they were mine, I would keep the bell and the ground baser in a completly seperate bucket !
Nice piece of history.

Ever give a thought to running a metal det. over some of those " camp " areas ? The terrain in your insitu pics is perfect. [ no grass & other ground obstructions ]

Nice going

SH, all my special broke are kept seperate. Wrapped in tissue paper. Bat wing c-tang? Had thught about sending it off to Gomer, but I don't think there's enough left to do anything with. I have a metal detector, but there's a lot of iron fillings in the ground (that's what give the dirt the red color) and don't know if it'd give a lot of false signals.

Te, sorry to harp on a metal detector, even on an "ancient" site but I'm really
a big believer on the possibilities.
Two years ago there was a displayer at the DeLeon flint show with two tables completely covered with
metal objects he had metal detected from a camp in NW TX. Lots of trade points natch but also all the bits of old weapons, like triggers, stock / barrel rings etc.
Sweeping the whole south is a big task but
You had mentioned on a previous post about the neat finds being from an actual "camp" area.,that kind of consentration should yield at the very least some civil war age wire fence staples !
Your detector will work in that mineralised soil. Turn the discriminate off or at dead minimum,, [ You'll want to hear a ring from anything from a horse shoe nail to a Myan gold heart removing knife !]

Yeah, geo, that's a broke Bell, impact fracture. And SH, hadn't gotten the hang of that metal detector yet. But these camp sites are usually on hard pan, and I've dug there before, even with backhoes, and there's nothing below ground level. Purty much like spreading sand on pavement. No snail, flakes, or burnt rock. There are places here I'd like to try the detector on. There's a civil war camp right off of IH 35 and Frio river on my buddies place. It's in the record book, but I haven't been able to find it. The camp had to be in an area where the horses could get to drink, and so far all I've found were steep banks. I'll keep looking.