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Hey! Hello SH Hello Michelle
Just to let everyone know, here at Austin Diggers, like I did when we first opened the pay dig a few years back.
I have resumed the duties as FRL dig manager. A lot of clean up has been completed to make the site digger friendl...
I registered and I cant get in to new site. Got thew email and everything that says I did.. It wants me to do it again when I went back to login.. Is there a problem with the site. Thanks eddy
Helloo to all the regulars (And Irregulars 8) )
As it stands.. the website is about 90% un-editable and has been for months because of a bad programming session.
I have about 1/3 of I need for a new website and NEW LOG-IN Message board custom to austindigge...
For a limited time I have some wiggles on sale for 75$. My contact info is on my link THANKS! Http://www.porprints.com/Drew/
The new site looks great Michelle!
Hi everyone. Found this website just today while researching my recent find, and boy, I wish something like your group had existed when I was a kid (I'm 66, now). I guess I found my first "arrowheads" as a boy scout at El Rancho Cima in central Texas. When I got ther...
Could many folks appreciate a larger text font on the text used in email responses? Would using bold text be just as good?
I must be getting older than I realized as the current small text almost blends in with the gray background in the email responses....
City of Austin, game wardens crack down on ancient artifact thieves
Seems one of our brothers has dug his last point after he fell off an 80' cliff after being sprayed with mace & trying to resist arrest.
The word is "Don't dig on any Public Lands!"
AYS COU...
The finest quality point of the weekend was dug up by Mason Flatbed
There's at least 300 feet of new trenching the entire length of the camp.. Poor Sam has to quality check every foot !
"checking" 300 feet of trenching can make a body weary
Here are some finds I made while doing some farm work on a plowed sandhill which is overlooking a nice flowing spring!
I spotted the blank and the little Carrolton out of my tractor. Most of the camp is covered by sand that has been blown around in the dry wea...
I have two nephews, age 9 and 10. We live in Austin and would like to get them exposed to hunting for arrowheads/artifacts. I have never been digging for artifacts myself so I not only need help on where to go and what I need equipment-wise, but was also hoping to...
Got to scratch around in the sand a little, found lots of tools,pottery chards, and a few points.
Nice palmwood birdie..
San Patrice.
Nice petrified spear.
Here we are again screen digging near the Sabinal River. Uncle Mudge was amped up and ready to screen. The below pictures are combined from the last couple trips. Enjoy the flint show.
The crew.
Digging under the Live Oak..
The famous Uncle Mudge AKA Number 2...
High winds chopped the lake into slivers of light
Flint was too dirty to sparkle but a side tang with a Perd base still makes it's own aura
It can drive a body to drink
Does anybody have any suggestions as to which microscope to buy for studying patina, fractures, etc?
I have gotten good at eyeballing for obvious fakes and incorrect flaking but I want to continue to study pieces further. Thank you for any thoughts/opinions.
-Ja...
Digging on the river again.. . . . >
It's always interesting to keep up with the latest techniques of digging / screening.
Idahoe already had an excellent find in the bag so I watched him closely and recorded his style.. ( Ida in red pirate hat )
Just wondering if anyone has been to Camp Live Oak resently and can provide an honest assessment of how the digging is ? I am wanting to do a 3 day dig somewhere and I know part of the country has some great flint . I dug many times at FRL and found many great artifa...
Spending a few weeks in Birmingham Alabama and was wondering if anyone knew of any good areas to surface hunt. A lot of pine growth everywhere, but i figured id start by gettin in the hills and walking these dry creeks first. Any suggestions appreciated.
Hey guys, been a long time since I've frequented this board, but I'm back in Texas so I hit up the old message board as well. Here are some pics of some of the better points that have come out of our site. Unfortunately I will be having to sell some soon, so contact...
Any idea on the metal object in the last of the photos? It appears to be copper ......goin by the green tarnish. Kasey found it bout 8" to 10" down in midden ....seems to have been there a very long time. Points came from the honeyhole, had to change it up after gett...
I have been waitin a long time to see the Digfest 2013 pictures. Was it not productive enough to post pictures. I saw a few in a post but not under the official Digfest column.
Hit the river once more with a couple friends. Here is my regular hunting buddies finds.
Here is a little different bead than our usual found by a friend who tagged along. It's red with a blue/green inside.
Last are my finds. Got another small white...
As you found out.. . . . the digfest pics never made it to the front page..
Type in " DIGF XIII PICS " in the search block above, ( view entire thread ). The second pic down is Jerry's find that looks very similar to your recent find.
It's primarily a Darl & Ens...
Jake cleaning up a find at "big hole"
Mid morn finds
Here's a pic of Jake & I with his latest find
I was Trying to leave but Jake chased me down with ANOTHER find
This last one looks like it could qualify as a fairly rare "FRACTURED BA...
Got out with my buddy for a cold day of kayaking. He got the heartbreaker and I got the red bead. It was found near an old trade post that operated from about 1820-1840.
was out checking the deer feeder..... started filling it with corn , and then looked down.. .this guy was sitting right on top!....
and learning from the group.... my point it at the sun shot.....
i want to say a broke knife.... the bottom was b...
Beautiful weather day to be outdoors.
Finding artifacts is a bonus
A Fresno point was a surprise
The spring looks to be running at its "usual" rate but lake Starr is getting pretty low.
Have you been thinking about trying a little bit of actual digging for artifacts...?
Here's a golden opportunity to see what it looks like. Get out to Chrisners and go straight to the "Big Hole" area..Some real professional diggers are working there and you will be...
Here's some pieces that were gifted to me.
These were all found in the Nueces Canyon area and back to Montell area.
Here's a real nice blade made from some sweet honey colored flint.
This little metal point was made from a spoon and it looks like i...
Hi everyone, I found these rocks in a pile in Ector County here in Texas everyone has knapping on them I was wondering if you would look and see if yuo think these may be preforms or actual tools, when held in the hands just right they fit for grinding and such, o...
Hey Everyone. Post your best find of 2013. This is mine. It is a killer San Patrice with great color and flaking. Not sure if it is a Geneill or a Keithville type. It will be good to see all the great points found this year so please post! Eddy
I found this in Walnut Creek this weekend. Mano, abrading stone, mano used as an adrading stone or just a rock? What do you guys think? Thanks for your time!
Hi! First post. I found this site over the weekend when I found another hammer stone...at least I think that is what it is. I'm one of -those- people who know nothing about the rocks they find, but I'd like to know something about these items.
We have live...
Years ago, when Texas Cashe Magazine had an email list server, there was a fellow digger, named Richard, I believe that had come across many Indian relic's & points in the Texas coastal Rockport area. Some of his finds were amazing, such as portions of Mastodon tusks...
I am asking help from anyone that may have recently purchased MY POINTS from Annette R Butler of Gillespie Co. Ms. Butler sold points that do not belong to her and I have video, photo, and witness documentation that will back up my claim. I have tried repeatedly to c...
Here is my only gatecliff. They are relatively rare from what I have heard.
The points in my previous post are all bird points. I didn't put anything in for scale so they looked larger than reality.