Job one, go crashing through the underbrush looking for a likely test hole area.



Job two, get down & dirty with all the help you can find.



Insitu of shoe & swiss army knife [ see posting named " LEE " for details ]



Randy was digging about 200 feet from us. His Dad Barry was out surface hunting.



Looks like a WELLS with a damaged base.



Worked piece of flint to right of pecker pick> > > > >
Badger off camera to the side doing the " in situ dance ! "



When the diggins slow and tough, savoring a mysterious insitu is a welcome delight !



DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS has a whole new meaning now.



Bit more soil tickled away, its got some red color showing.



A barb now uncovered. . . . . time to rip it out of the ground. . . . . .



And HEEEeeeers Froggy for scale



THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE


Here we are out in the middle of NOWHERE, in the bottom of a hole and the word leaked out that we had found a good undug layer. . . . There were some people from the next county over. Looked like a digfest pic. .
EVEN THE DAM DOG CAME DOWN TO SEE THE ACTION..



Badger finally became exhausted [ from talking ] and turned her area over to BFBill. . . .
A few deft wiggles later he found a 3 1/2 inch CASTROVILLE.



Sheryll was in the right place at the right time and Bill donated the point to her. With all the partying going on I didnt get a close up of the flint.



Here's the days finds, less 3 brokes I forgot to take out of my pocket. . . . It IS deer season, Badger found the teeth, I got a piece of antler [a one and a half pointer ]



With so many people milling around valuable finds its wise to be alert to sticky tongues.



What better way to finish a tough day than with a tummy rub .

ANOTHER "ohmygosh" moment. . . . I just got around to washing that piece of antler found Sunday [ in
the last pics above ] It's got an elongated hole bored through.



It was no surprise to find the antler as we had been finding bone pieces all day around the fire pit.



Question is; was the guy preparing a piece of the deer feast for a new knife handle. . . OR
was it already a knife that he used to cut up the deer and now there is a beautiful long blade farther in fron where the horn was found ??

AWESOME FIND MICHELLE .... A RARITY INDEED GLAD YA'LL DID SO WELL .. I WAS THINKING MAYBE A ATLATL HANDLE BUT NOW I TEND TO LEAN MORE TOWARDS A KNIFE HANDLE ALSO !!!

The small bone next to the antler is a Turkey Spur, no?

You are correct, No. It's antler tip along with another small piece That broke off the larger
piece that didnt fit back together.

With the other deer bone & teeth around, I was assuming the guys were working whatever
antler parts they wanted for various uses.