That area where you found all those shells sticking out is a shell midden. Where Indians cleaned mussels and other out of the shells and disposed of the shells
So I feel I had to cut in with some info. I introduced gigmaster to this collector. Some people say it’s impossible to collect that much stuff, or it’s wrong, or unethical, etc... this area is super rich in artifacts. Neighborhoods are built over significantly important sites everyday. About the same time this video was made I started hitting a new neighborhood construction site. The area was razed with bulldozers and then runoff ponds were cut in and lastly roads. Now they are building houses. Point being in the short time since this video was posted I have found over 100 points in this one 10 acre “cleared” area that they are building houses on. Now the site is completely finished and impossible to hunt anymore. So this is a hypothetical question, but is it better to pick them up and cherish them and treat them like the true priceless glimpses into man’s past that they are? Or should we let them lay and be hauled to a landfill or crushed by heavy equipment, or reburied a half a mile from their original location under a new Walmart? Just a thought!
It's better to have a national native American museum not native people's just natives so we can recover our history...well the general population anyways there's a few left that remember the shamen in the valley how we got here and how the Mason's betrayed us.
Suffolkdigger I too have found many,many,many awesome points, hatchets and grinding rocks. I live in Far East Tn. Only 39 miles as the crow flys from Cherokee, Tn. I moved here from Tulsa, Ok. I had a friend who found a lower jaw bone with 5 teeth in tact from a Mastodon. Any time I couldn’t find my friend I knew where he was. I believe his find was in Jenks. Good luck my friends.
in my opinion, I feel like I saved them, from being damaged more, however the native Americans feel they are sacred and should be left where they are. I guess everybody has their own opinion, a native once told me there a gift to find. so I'm not sure how to feel about finding them.
My father was born in a little community on the James River called Indian Rock, near Buchanan. It served the Indians well for thousands of years. God bless them.
I live in Michigan. The first time I took my new metal detector out I went to a local lake and scanned the shores thinking I'd find jewlery. After digging 50 or so bottle caps I became very discouraged and decided to quit and walk back to the car, on the way back I got a solid signal and decided to dig one more hole, I didn't find the signal but a foot and a half down i sifted the sand in my hand and out came a native american arrow head. I've been hooked ever since.
Hell ya I looked for 4 years man and I was done giving up and I came across the Sedalia big ole Spearhead never found anything before that and since then I've been so hooked it's taking up a lot of my life and it's one of my greatest Passions
Awesome collection... I appreciate this work. My grandfather from NJ was an archeologist. He has one of the best Indian Artifacts Collection in NJ, now passed on in the family. As a little girl, I was in awe! Those axes, I found one in the fields. They say they might be of the Giants. ??
The brass "button" is an ingot made melting brass into a crucible and then let cooled. Round crucible makes round button with flat side being the top of the lil brass puddle naturally cooled level.
Have a friend here for on west coast with a collection that’s easily as large. All the big collections were made back in the 30s, 40s, 50s. All the easy stuff is long gone.
Gig, thank you for sharing this. I have hunted arrowheads since I was a kid and have found very few. You have rekindled the fire! Glad it's Friday, I am spending the weekend hunting arrowheads.
Thanks for sharing this amazing collection on video, Gigmaster and thanks to the gentleman that's collected/preserved it. It's astounding to think of all the hours of work and the lives intertwined in those artifacts.
I have put together 1 frame full and think I have accomplished something. I have 1 ax head that got misplaced while moving and 1 grinding base and stone. I have dug a point metal detecting in an emergent weeds swim area. I watched a video of a guys house in Wyoming last night that was beyond amazing. over 50 years of collecting. I toured a private collection here in Wisconsin, no pictures and it had the most copper culture items that I had never seen before.
Wow! IMPRESSIVE! Happy to have found some artifacts in TN and just out walking in my home state Mi. Thank you for your videos. So education and interesting. Shows what years of dedicated looking can achieve. Here's to having eagle-eyes and spotting those goodies! ❤😊🎉🎉🎉
I MUST SAY THIS IS A AMAZING COLLECTION OF NATIVE AMERICAN ARTIFACTS.. VERY IMPRESSIVE... I ALSO WOULD HAVE TO ASK , WHO CAN UPDATE MY THOUGHTS FOR A COUPLE OF MY OWN FINDS IN WESTERN LAWRENCE COUNTY TN..
I may be wrong but I believe that the brass item you found is a rivet of sorts. Based on the back it looks like it would have been connected to a square post.
Awesome. Glad I found you.. i am just getting into collecting stuff. But I tend to keep everything.. we went on a float and I found all kinds of old pottery, I told my husband I would try to put pieces together.. hard, when most peices are rounded not pointy anymore from being so old. Im from cumberland, md. I am trying to find cool places. So far alot of fossils, oh, I found on not arrowhead I dont thibk. Looks like a hook like looks like from slate. Again. Im learning
I see James whole collection .. A pretty amazing collection of stuff, I have family that lives in Suffolk Va. And hunted the fields before a very active spot
About the best video I ever watched! Can you someday interview Mr. Prichard on how he located the artifacts? I live in the dismal swamp right off the old cedarworks railroad. On herring ditch.
I worked for Antique Helper Auction House when they got the Earl Townsend Collection several years ago. I had been there just a few months and this auction came up. So amazing to have this as my first introduction to auctioning and to Prehistoric Indian Artifacts. www.artfixdaily.com/artwire/release/5262-%E2%80%9Cthe-smithsonian-bird%E2%80%9D-to-be-offered-at-antique-helper-auctions-d
That was so awsome, and that's overflow, wow.. Thanks for sharing this, i don't think we will see something like this again. Will be looking for the upstairs video from you in the future.
Every year across the country tens of thousands of artifacts are obliterated by farm implements by plows, disks, cultivators,etc. If not picked up by relic hunters or archaeologists, any knowledge they could relate is gone, any appreciation of the art they represent is lost.
If you are ever in Corsicana Texas , go to Navarro College and ask to see the Robert S. Reading collection . He donated a part of his collection to them , and there are several rooms with the walls covered . I understand that he collected from every county in Texas .
I see a clam shell.... Right there! The button had a tab but the welding failed over the years & it came off! Awesome collection right there Holy Crap brother!
A double Cresent bannerstone to be more precise It was found in Sussex co VA. The double Cresent is more of a Ohio type and the material comes from around Michigan or Ontario being banded slate..
back in the 80s there was a man on Grand Lake St Marys OH ,who had a house full like this ,I wonder if he still alive being in his 70s back then ,all us field walkers were welcome to come and hear him talk of his finds and learn he was a true historian
incredible. I want to go there now and check it out and see how the lay of the land is . Where did he say thay came from? down in the water, mud banks? Was it like the are you were looking with the shells? TY, John
what if the stones were not axes i mean they are stone ? if you was to try one out what could you do with unless it was real sharp or just made to bust heads i dont know
my 10 year old wants a metal detector and I have no knowledge about anything to do with hunting... does anyone have a recommendation for a beginner? as far as which metal detector to start him on?
April Robertson I would just get him a very inexpensive one to start with to see if he likes it. (Walmart or Cosco) I recommend the minelab equinox for a more advanced unit. amzn.to/2AQemPf
It's a guess but I am thinking those pottery shards you are finding out there are ones that broke during the firing process. They seem tempered with bits of those oyster shells which are so abundent along the shoreline and it seems like a lot of clay is there too. It doesn't seem like a great place to live because of the lack of freshwater but would be a great place to make pottery which they could then take back to where they lived. That was a great collection that guy had too wow. Thanks for the vid Gig!!
Those "pedestals" looked a little small to be of much help...maybe they'd work better if you put em with the mortar stones and used em as a PESTLE....Just a thought😉😁
This is the most beautiful collection I have ever seen most of what I have is more earlier like Stone Age , Union County South Carolina is where our farm is I've found a few clovis points ,if you don't mind me asking what state are you guys in
@@Gigmaster I would have never thought there were that many pieces in that condition anywhere I have a great aunt in TROUTSVILLE VA. I NEED TO GO AND SEE HER A WALK THE SPRING THAT RUNS BEHIND HER HOUSE and I will send you some pics of my collection if you have a link mine is mikeyt4562@gmail.com thanks and have a great day
If you want to be a real collector, try getting out walking farmers Fields for your entire collection. I have a friend that I would put his collection up against this one when it came to points and projectiles
Gigmaster I just found a tiny tool maybe used for scraping meat and fat off hides my mom found the axe heads years ago in a neighbors field they said there an Indian grave yard there but they won’t let anyone excavate it
Gigmaster Thank you for your reply. I do have Hutchens from Henry County Virginia. Im Sure other places also but so far that's the only place I found. I love your videos thanks for sharing!!
fucking awesome man! Being able to tell pottery from rock is a skill that 99% of people will pass over, i'm real glad there's people like you out there saving these artifacts
The Button at 4.14 mins, looks like it was a square nail on the back not a clasp, perhaps something used to nail into a wooden frame for upholstery ? A question if you dont mind ? where ish was the place with the fossils/ shells & how much above sea level is it ? thanks for doing the vids :)
It is called a banner stone. Archaeologists have debated over the use of banner stones. Some have suggested that they are atlatl weights or ceremonial pieces. csasi.org/2005_april_journal/2005_april_journal_toc.htm
Wow...what a super collection of artifacts. Maybe it's time to check over the rocks we find a little more closely. Great vid Steve!
Anthony Brau I look at every rock in a different light now!
Yeah.....me too Steve! I've gotta stop pitching those oval rocks into the river!!!
how was that 'bannerstone'(?think thats the name) used.. ?
I do not think they (the experts?) know what it is used for. There are a lot of theories. It makes for good research.
i have been researching.. nothing seems to make sense right now, will see where this goes
That area where you found all those shells sticking out is a shell midden. Where Indians cleaned mussels and other out of the shells and disposed of the shells
I'll catch up to him if I can find the Fountain of Youth. Nice collection.
So I feel I had to cut in with some info. I introduced gigmaster to this collector. Some people say it’s impossible to collect that much stuff, or it’s wrong, or unethical, etc... this area is super rich in artifacts. Neighborhoods are built over significantly important sites everyday. About the same time this video was made I started hitting a new neighborhood construction site. The area was razed with bulldozers and then runoff ponds were cut in and lastly roads. Now they are building houses. Point being in the short time since this video was posted I have found over 100 points in this one 10 acre “cleared” area that they are building houses on. Now the site is completely finished and impossible to hunt anymore. So this is a hypothetical question, but is it better to pick them up and cherish them and treat them like the true priceless glimpses into man’s past that they are? Or should we let them lay and be hauled to a landfill or crushed by heavy equipment, or reburied a half a mile from their original location under a new Walmart? Just a thought!
It's better to have a national native American museum not native people's just natives so we can recover our history...well the general population anyways there's a few left that remember the shamen in the valley how we got here and how the Mason's betrayed us.
Suffolkdigger I too have found many,many,many awesome points, hatchets and grinding rocks. I live in Far East Tn. Only 39 miles as the crow flys from Cherokee, Tn. I moved here from Tulsa, Ok. I had a friend who found a lower jaw bone with 5 teeth in tact from a Mastodon. Any time I couldn’t find my friend I knew where he was. I believe his find was in Jenks. Good luck my friends.
in my opinion, I feel like I saved them, from being damaged more, however the native Americans feel they are sacred and should be left where they are. I guess everybody has their own opinion, a native once told me there a gift to find. so I'm not sure how to feel about finding them.
@@johnwilkening5262 this country will be a parking lot soon! Can't find shit in a parking lot. Find rescue lable share.
You are right Suffolk. You from Long Island?
My father was born in a little community on the James River called Indian Rock, near Buchanan. It served the Indians well for thousands of years. God bless them.
I live in Michigan. The first time I took my new metal detector out I went to a local lake and scanned the shores thinking I'd find jewlery. After digging 50 or so bottle caps I became very discouraged and decided to quit and walk back to the car, on the way back I got a solid signal and decided to dig one more hole, I didn't find the signal but a foot and a half down i sifted the sand in my hand and out came a native american arrow head. I've been hooked ever since.
erizzo You'll find a lot more junk, than treasures. Don't get discouraged.
erizzo You been hooked on arrow heads?... obviously that's a metaphor for crack cocaine.
Hell ya I looked for 4 years man and I was done giving up and I came across the Sedalia big ole Spearhead never found anything before that and since then I've been so hooked it's taking up a lot of my life and it's one of my greatest Passions
You can find arrowheads with metal detectors?
Awesome collection... I appreciate this work. My grandfather from NJ was an archeologist. He has one of the best Indian Artifacts Collection in NJ, now passed on in the family. As a little girl, I was in awe! Those axes, I found one in the fields. They say they might be of the Giants. ??
The brass "button" is an ingot made melting brass into a crucible and then let cooled. Round crucible makes round button with flat side being the top of the lil brass puddle naturally cooled level.
actually you should check if that button isn't in fact gold. I think it's gold.
Have a friend here for on west coast with a collection that’s easily as large. All the big collections were made back in the 30s, 40s, 50s. All the easy stuff is long gone.
Swimbait1 lol, same with the civil war artifacts.
Not necessarily true. In PA they found a native dugout canoe at the bottom of a lake in the 60’s.
New stuff is still being discovered.
Gig, thank you for sharing this. I have hunted arrowheads since I was a kid and have found very few. You have rekindled the fire! Glad it's Friday, I am spending the weekend hunting arrowheads.
Thanks for sharing this amazing collection on video, Gigmaster and thanks to the gentleman that's collected/preserved it. It's astounding to think of all the hours of work and the lives intertwined in those artifacts.
I have put together 1 frame full and think I have accomplished something. I have 1 ax head that got misplaced while moving and 1 grinding base and stone. I have dug a point metal detecting in an emergent weeds swim area. I watched a video of a guys house in Wyoming last night that was beyond amazing. over 50 years of collecting. I toured a private collection here in Wisconsin, no pictures and it had the most copper culture items that I had never seen before.
Stunning collection.. Artifacts nsre what got me started in the outdoors! Thanks for sharing
Wow! IMPRESSIVE! Happy to have found some artifacts in TN and just out walking in my home state Mi. Thank you for your videos. So education and interesting. Shows what years of dedicated looking can achieve. Here's to having eagle-eyes and spotting those goodies! ❤😊🎉🎉🎉
At 9:50 I have never seen anything like that before. What is it and what was it used for?
That is most awesome collection Ive ever seen. WoW.
They're not rocks, they're STONES. The rocks (tares) were tossed out and discarded indefinitely.
Amazing!! What are the stones with the holes in them called? I found some big ones yesterday
I MUST SAY THIS IS A AMAZING COLLECTION OF NATIVE AMERICAN ARTIFACTS.. VERY IMPRESSIVE...
I ALSO WOULD HAVE TO ASK , WHO CAN UPDATE MY THOUGHTS FOR A COUPLE OF MY OWN FINDS IN WESTERN LAWRENCE COUNTY TN..
Very AWESOME Thank You for sharing.
I love when old people get excited about things.
and I love you!
We are just glad to be able to make it to the end of the day 😮
Hopefully, you will be old one day.
@@anisuthideyakoindu I love you too!
@@michaeltaylor4984 That's a good thing to be glad about! I hope I see old age one day too :)
Amazing collection.
I may be wrong but I believe that the brass item you found is a rivet of sorts. Based on the back it looks like it would have been connected to a square post.
Amazing collection! I feel blessed to see all that!
Awesome. Glad I found you.. i am just getting into collecting stuff. But I tend to keep everything.. we went on a float and I found all kinds of old pottery, I told my husband I would try to put pieces together.. hard, when most peices are rounded not pointy anymore from being so old. Im from cumberland, md. I am trying to find cool places. So far alot of fossils, oh, I found on not arrowhead I dont thibk. Looks like a hook like looks like from slate. Again. Im learning
Good luck out there!
I admire him and his collection I'm working on my own collection
I see James whole collection .. A pretty amazing collection of stuff, I have family that lives in Suffolk Va. And hunted the fields before a very active spot
This is neolithic.copper age and bronze age archaeology artifact.So important material.for international studios.
That Copper button top..i think it goes on the Epilet on the soldiers shoulder..
The brass item is the head of a brass rivet.
I thought that too
About the best video I ever watched! Can you someday interview Mr. Prichard on how he located the artifacts? I live in the dismal swamp right off the old cedarworks railroad. On herring ditch.
Where is this at? I would love to come look at this collection!
I worked for Antique Helper Auction House when they got the Earl Townsend Collection several years ago. I had been there just a few months and this auction came up. So amazing to have this as my first introduction to auctioning and to Prehistoric Indian Artifacts.
www.artfixdaily.com/artwire/release/5262-%E2%80%9Cthe-smithsonian-bird%E2%80%9D-to-be-offered-at-antique-helper-auctions-d
John Hughes That is some crazy prices!
Just splendid getting to see these artifacts. I learned a helluva lot by watching. Thanks for the post!
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That was so awsome, and that's overflow, wow.. Thanks for sharing this, i don't think we will see something like this again. Will be looking for the upstairs video from you in the future.
Every year across the country tens of thousands of artifacts are obliterated by farm implements by plows, disks, cultivators,etc. If not picked up by relic hunters or archaeologists, any knowledge they could relate is gone, any appreciation of the art they represent is lost.
Dallas DautermanDallas sad but true. The farmers implements are decimating arrowheads left and right .
The brass piece looks more like the head of an old brass carriage bolt that snapped off right at the square neck.
If you are ever in Corsicana Texas , go to Navarro College and ask to see the Robert S. Reading collection . He donated a part of his collection to them , and there are several rooms with the walls covered . I understand that he collected from every county in Texas .
Will do!
I see a clam shell.... Right there! The button had a tab but the welding failed over the years & it came off! Awesome collection right there Holy Crap brother!
The banner stone made of banded slate is incredible!
Awesome collection and pick up all those pottery shards you can that's history you can't replace once it's gone it's gone .have a awesome nite brother
Would like to know what that $100,000 item was called and made out of.
Amazing collection!!!
That guy should open a museum.
Amazing! Thanks my friend bringing us.
Wow Steve you have hair! Never saw it before this video! What a neat collection of Native American artifacts. Wow!
What was that ornamental piece you showed that was valued at $100'000 dollars ? What an awesome collection that took a lifetime to amass !!!!
Jeffrey Elliott That was a banner stone made from banded slate, they were used as counter balance weights on atl-atls.
A double Cresent bannerstone to be more precise
It was found in Sussex co VA. The double Cresent is more of a Ohio type and the material comes from around Michigan or Ontario being banded slate..
back in the 80s there was a man on Grand Lake St Marys OH ,who had a house full like this ,I wonder if he still alive being in his 70s back then ,all us field walkers were welcome to come and hear him talk of his finds and learn he was a true historian
It is a shame not to capture a little of the info from guys like that for all of us to see and learn!
Are axe heads worth anything? I have one that looks really good
incredible. I want to go there now and check it out and see how the lay of the land is . Where did he say thay came from? down in the water, mud banks? Was it like the are you were looking with the shells?
TY, John
is there an Indian museum around there where they could donate some of that stuff to
When my grandpa was young he was playing in the woods and stumbled apon a Indian hatchet piece
Great Video. I came across your channel today. Subbed you for more future content.
Hey that's where all the arrowheads are share some with us!!!
I think that brass button is actually the very top portion of a brass carriage bolt.
That piece of brass was a musket adornment
what is the wooden piece at the end
what if the stones were not axes i mean they are stone ? if you was to try one out what could you do with unless it was real sharp or just made to bust heads i dont know
A most excellent video 👍👍👏
brass botton looks like it could be a wax seal stamper ? or a pottery textile inlay ? mabey
First video I've watched of yours and am subscribing! Fun video brotha
Thanks!
That was a incredible collection .
awesome, that button sure looks like gold, heavy + no tarnish. Hmmmm
my 10 year old wants a metal detector and I have no knowledge about anything to do with hunting... does anyone have a recommendation for a beginner? as far as which metal detector to start him on?
April Robertson I would just get him a very inexpensive one to start with to see if he likes it. (Walmart or Cosco) I recommend the minelab equinox for a more advanced unit. amzn.to/2AQemPf
What is it called and what is it used for??? (9:40)
My first find ever was a full groove ax i have since found out i was hunting artifacts on a spot where the indians lived
Some people GOT the eye MAN.. that's COOL stuff.. some may have belonged to giants looks like
Well one group is said to of been giants but if it was tested or taken to a museum likely call it fake.
@@SULLIEDASP you should tell us why
Yes they I heard some giant human bone's have been saved now and being stored at a save place to keep it for being burnt to ash.
Cool! We found a nice Metate after a wild fire in Arizona.just feet from a busy road.
These things people call "arrow heads" were in fact ancient butt plugs worn flat by the force of gravity over thousands of years.
Yep , now everyone knows what’s on your mind and in your ass
What was that fancy artifact at the end used for?
Ceremonial?
I don't know it's cool as heck though
You ever come toward Hickory NC? I’d love to go searching with ya!! Great stuff! Thanks for sharing
It's a guess but I am thinking those pottery shards you are finding out there are ones that broke during the firing process. They seem tempered with bits of those oyster shells which are so abundent along the shoreline and it seems like a lot of clay is there too. It doesn't seem like a great place to live because of the lack of freshwater but would be a great place to make pottery which they could then take back to where they lived. That was a great collection that guy had too wow. Thanks for the vid Gig!!
lost for words, WOW
Those "pedestals" looked a little small to be of much help...maybe they'd work better if you put em with the mortar stones and used em as a PESTLE....Just a thought😉😁
This is the most beautiful collection I have ever seen most of what I have is more earlier like Stone Age , Union County South Carolina is where our farm is I've found a few clovis points ,if you don't mind me asking what state are you guys in
Va
@@Gigmaster WOW,, THAT IS AMAZING TO SEE THAT MANYo
@@Gigmaster I would have never thought there were that many pieces in that condition anywhere I have a great aunt in TROUTSVILLE VA. I NEED TO GO AND SEE HER A WALK THE SPRING THAT RUNS BEHIND HER HOUSE and I will send you some pics of my collection if you have a link
mine is
mikeyt4562@gmail.com
thanks and have a great day
The thing u call a button was a brass rivet
If you want to be a real collector, try getting out walking farmers Fields for your entire collection. I have a friend that I would put his collection up against this one when it came to points and projectiles
Wow what a collection!
How would one find out if they actually have a real artifact? I have one of those roller pin looking ones and I'd like to know
Wow!!! I’m blown away!!!
I got two axe heads at home in my collection
Cliffs Vids Nice, I have never found a whole one. I found a thousand arrowheads.
Gigmaster I just found a tiny tool maybe used for scraping meat and fat off hides my mom found the axe heads years ago in a neighbors field they said there an Indian grave yard there but they won’t let anyone excavate it
Where is this Hutchens farm where he found his first mortar and pestle located? I'm only curious because I'm Hutchens searching geology.
tawodi66 Kempsville Virginia Beach VA
Gigmaster Thank you for your reply. I do have Hutchens from Henry County Virginia. Im Sure other places also but so far that's the only place I found. I love your videos thanks for sharing!!
fucking awesome man! Being able to tell pottery from rock is a skill that 99% of people will pass over, i'm real glad there's people like you out there saving these artifacts
What River was in the video Cherokee North Carolina has a fantastic museum
pictures on my end are hard to tell..... but the button may actually be an ear gauge, and it might be gold
The Button at 4.14 mins, looks like it was a square nail on the back not a clasp, perhaps something used to nail into a wooden frame for upholstery ? A question if you dont mind ? where ish was the place with the fossils/ shells & how much above sea level is it ? thanks for doing the vids :)
Right at sea level except for the ones lodged in the cliff.
I hunt on the susquehanna river do find soapstone pottery.
Once found a nice spear head about 5 miles south of the mason-Dixon border
Hi Gigmaster,great video, thanks for posting, what state is this?
john zimpleman Va
Gigmaster can you please tell me what the indian rocks are like to have closer look at those
What was it at 5:51 he was “trying to put together”? Thanks
Edit: 9:48 ?? What is it!
beautiful - my daddy and paw paw has found some real beautiful arrowheads in uwharrie NC.
how do you get your artifacts authincated
what state did he find this in
So what was that cool thing on the red pillow originally used for?
It is called a banner stone. Archaeologists have debated over the use of banner stones. Some have suggested that they are atlatl weights or ceremonial pieces. csasi.org/2005_april_journal/2005_april_journal_toc.htm
Looks like an old timey hardware store
What was the object in the glass case valued at 100,000. ?
How old are those ax heads? I've got two that my wife's grandfather found and don't know how old they are.
I will get him to explain that in the next video that I do with him.
Wow.wow. That is one amazing collection..
Absolutely brilliant, what a wonderful ending. Thank you for that ☺️
Wow! Great job man. Thanks for sharing this, I'm glad I have subbed your channel.