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came out of hole today! Still 1 1/2ft down, went 4 ft down today no flake or points! Just between 11/2 and 2 ft! What a San Saba, the little scallorn is a beauty too!
Your on a good roll Clut, keep em a comin out!
Congratulations ( I guess ) if you were around when Tucker found His rich vein, the down side of flint
lottery wins is the financial drain to buy enough new display frames. 
Couple more comments then your on your own ;;;
Such young points at the relatively shallow depth seems to indicate that that particular area is not flash flood prone, so if earlier generations left
anything, it should still be there.
Mike had pointed out that the area looked a perfect ancient campsite, spring, level ground, etc. well those same conditions would have attracted much earlier visitors to that locale. Campsites can be very large, maybe the deeper zone is not exactly where
you have started.
I once had good but limited success with a homemade auger drill. handmade a drill bit similar to post hole diggers, welded an extra rod on to about 3 feet.
( bit about 4 inch diameter } bought a proper Home Depot brace. Worked great, I did find some deep flakes that told of the lower strata. . . but, in my areas I was finally shut down because the small drill bit cant handle extracting the fire rock too well.
Your sandy soils sound a likely candidate for "test drilling" Note, I have seen one brand of DOG ANCHOR that would do the job great ! ( know what I mean ?, the corkscrew like hardware pet owners use to moor their animal to the ground at the beach )
Lastly and it's probably just an isolated accident. . . for those of us that look for the dividing line between medium sized missile points to the rediculously teeny bird points, , note that your
bird finds date to around 1200 yrs BP. . . IF that is indeed a San Saba, that could date to 3000 yrs BP.
Have a nice day
It may take a while to define you campsite perimeters,
as it takes lots of time to place enough test holes,
etc. I would think the odds of having ab archaic layer
there, would be greater than not. If you do not find
it beneath the sand wash, try further upslope, but
stay reasonably close to the spring, as you could
actually be on or along the flanking edge of an older
camp. An old friend of mine had a site similar to
yours over at LaGrange just off the Colorado River,
and the spring pool was deep enough to set up a sub-
mersible pump & generator. Built a large sleuse box
with 3/16 inch mesh, and used a farm tracor for
loading the sandy soil. Found bucket loads of good
arrow points that way. Stayed wet alot, but was alot
of fun. Best of Luck!
I doubt that he will melt in the rain, and besides, sand is alot easier to deal with wet than mud/clay!
I once had good but limited success with a homemade auger drill. handmade a drill bit similar to post hole diggers, welded an extra rod on to about 3 feet.
( bit about 4 inch diameter } bought a proper Home Depot brace. Worked great, I did find some deep flakes that told of the lower strata. . . but, in my areas I was finally shut down because the small drill bit cant handle extracting the fire rock too well.
Your sandy soils sound a likely candidate for "test drilling" Note, I have seen one brand of DOG ANCHOR that would do the job great ! ( know what I mean ?, the corkscrew like hardware pet owners use to moor their animal to the ground at the beach )
At the posting above..I had not seen / used the "auger " in about 8 years.. I recently got it out of the storage locker labeled " IMPORTANT NEW TOOLS, PATENT PENDING "
I used it on a recent ranch exploration.
I did not make any spectacular finds but it certainly gave me a reading not to waste more time on a hand
dug test hole at that area.
I was really enthused when I first created the auger..connecting rods go to 30 inches. small to large bits are to deal with fire rock soil ( smallest will grunch around a fire rock, larger will jam )
Bit designs are varied, just anything I could think of to move dirt. Big roots will stop any of them cold
This is a new hi tech millennium...better improved devices should be possible. The auger set as shown needs EXTREME metal working tools ( and time )...
For a very easy test auger ,,, I still suggest the dog anchor
