Scott im glad you got over your flu. Nice video.I hope Rocky gets well soon. Someone once asked me how I found so many arrowheads. Told him to walk down a back road for a couple miles and tell me how many beer bottles he finds. Peace
The part when you mentioned that you scrap videos bc of not finding things, I can relate. This whole thing with looking for points is like looking for a needle in a barn full of haystacks 😂. Lots of work…
You’ve given me the bug! I’ve binge watched nearly all of your episodes. I live in the interior of WV, Roane County. I’ve been looking along some creeks in areas you describe. I haven’t had any luck yet but hope to find some soon!
Just went back to my sisters in Newark for Thanksgiving. I watch your videos with my kids and Flint ridge comes up. I got to point it out this year. Would love to see a video from the state park off 16. All your videos are great and always will be.
Cleggs! I very much appreciate your insights in locating the hot spots, I'm new to South Carolina and everytime I go out artifact hunting "I ain't hit a lick"! Being a Jersey girl I've never heard that term before. What it means is I've found nothing! I adore your videos my friend :-))
👍 Enjoyed, thanks. I'm visiting my mom in Bama and took a 3 mile hike and climb along the Tenn. riverbank to a site named Painted Bluff. UA-cam it, it's amazing. 200 feet high with over 50 paintings known, I saw a bunch of them. On the riverbank there were areas with a crazy amount of fired rock and pottery shards. I only found one worked piece which was a decent sized uniface knife with a damaged end but nicely worked. Man I picked up the flu on my flight here and was down for the count for a solid week and really sick for two with that stupid cough still cropping up, I know what you went through, glad you're well.
Scott, Thank you for the video. We love to watch your adventures and see our favorite UA-cam movie star. I recently drove al long round trip from FT Worth Tx, to Norfolk Navy NAS and while not exactly near your location, i was looking for that bright yellow jacket and a muddy spot in the rivers, at every big river crossing. HaHa, Thanks for sharing your adventures. Stay well and hope to see more videos as you have time to make them.
Scott, we always love watching your videos--and learn things every time! God has richly blessed you with so many wonderful and creative gifts and talents🤗🤗 We love the creative ways you discover items, how you explain techniques---and love your excitement. Keep up the great work!! May God richly bless you and your family, and channel in the coming new months!🎊🥇🎉 Love and prayers 🙏🙌 from Jimmy and Shirley in Texas!
Great tutorial for how/where to prospect. Thanks for sharing! You're doing quite well at achieving your goal of having good footage, good editing, and good finds!
Hope you're feeling better Scott. Send my best wishes to Rocky also. Great video. Very informative. I think I need to make one of those scooper sifters.
@@rodlow6701 Do they still have that? I heard rumors that the folks got to old to run it and closed it down. Wasn’t sure, but wanted to go there sometime.
Great video Clegg. U explain ur reasoning quite well, and it pays off. I appreciate all ur videos, I bet u do have a bit of footage that doesn't make it, especially if it's anything like my experiences haha. But u keep them coming non the less. So thanks Clegg for another great video. Do u have an idea when a nice flood will come through there, to wash out the leaves ? Are we talking spring time?
I’ve found more on that stretch of beach than anywhere else. I know a creek nearby that has natural hematite everywhere. I assume it was carried in from there
Hello Scott , as usual a great video I always learn something new from your videos , such, as hunting where there is a flat surface , you always put you Army training to good use ,as in who what where why when , good job soldier . I'm glad you left Rocky at home too cold for him to be on the river . I hope you don't get any ideas , and paint Rocky red with the hematite , as usual a great informative job , be safe brother
Amazing info! I’ve always wanted to find an arrowhead. Probably seen hundreds when I was gold panning and never knew what I was looking at. I may have to dig around our riverbanks here in Vermont to see what I can find! Keep up the great videos!
The Flint Ridge stone at the end looks like it has a face on the one side. I enjoy watching your videos. I'd watch even without an artifact find. The process and info is interesting. Thanks
Great vid! Maybe not the best of days but we've all been there, probably more often than not lol. Glad to see the scooper sifter getting some use 👍 Glad your feeling better, but Rocky's probably waiting on some chicken noodle soup. Happy huntin! ✌
As always; great information My cousin had a metal basket mounted on the front of her bike - kinda looks like the one ya got on the end o that pole Hope Rocky gets to feeling better Briscoe Darling Jr. says hey & next time ya git to feelin poorly , drop buy for a poultice ! P s 😂 Clegg - You beatbeverything ya kno that ?? !!
Hello, Pretty sure I was one of your first subscribers. I wish you would put up your prospecting videos and also the vids you scrapped. I sometimes like to just have some vids on in the background. Like when I'm hiking. It's kinda like having a friend along. Maybe that makes me weird but I don't care. Maybe you could put all the scrapped vids up in one composite. I bet more people would watch it then you think. Anyway your call. My favorite vids are when you play also. Time travel, rocky, the bird.
Good video. Question I have a boat I want to use to visit these sites but down river from you, lol. How do you find or distinguish the locations that you don't sink up to your knees. Several times I have gone, and I just sink up to my knees. What are the indications or indicators or techniques that you use to find these plateau's that you can walk along? Thank you
Hello. Love your videos! Question: Do you think there are so many arrowheads along the riverbanks because the natives/ancients were bow fishing or spear fishing???
Much Appreciated! No, they are washing out of the field above, every time it floods. They are ,I would say, artifacts that were dripped or misplaced around the home. This was a preferred living area for thousands of years, a lot of stuff gets lost.
Have you already done a video regarding navigating the legal issues surrounding artifact collection? If not, can you make one? Your videos inspired me to lookup where locally (Louisville, KY also in the Ohio river) people recommended looking and the first thing I found was an article about a guy getting hit with federal charges.
Yeah, I think digging public land is not legal in KY, only surface hunting. I would have no idea of the laws of every state, nor have time to study them. I recommend asking Chief Smokem, he is from you state I believe.
Hey I’ve recently been interested in trying some of these tactics near the river where I live but Indiana’s laws prohibit digging/it’s public property technically and they also prohibit keeping or removing artifacts. I can’t remember if you’ve said which state you’re in or what laws you have to follow but I guess what I’m trying to ask is what I should do? I would love to find some arrowheads but I’d like to not get in trouble.
Yeah, I’m not sure of your state laws, but I do know guys that hunt fields there. Around here, it’s almost all private land. We’re not allowed to hunt artifacts on the Ohio River Islands, as the government took them over as wildlife refuges. I’m in WV, it’s a little less strict here. You may ask “365 HeadHunter” I believe he’s in your state and finds nice stuff. He would probably know the laws there.
I highly doubt there were many pilgrimages to Flint ridge of 90 miles or more there were probably a few. But more likely it's the result of a trade Network between different groups and villages and whatnot. I live in muskingum county myself I'm a rock on so I like going up to flintridge for multiple reasons. Place is a Wonder that as far as I know has never been meticulously studied. All you got to do is go up to something like nether's farm where the lapidary clubs excavate the pits down to the Flint heads sometimes and things are 10 to 15 ft deep in that entire layer to that flinthead it's almost nothing but debitage. An occasional granite hammer or billet. But you are absolutely right it's not technically Flint. Its chalcedony mostly. But the patina does darken with age. I haven't found any fully intact pieces from paleo age but I have found quite a few fairly large fragments. I found a beautiful double fluted piece just the middle of it the bottom and top were broke. But what I'm telling you stuff that people were identifying is Paleo coming out of the ground is not the deepest layer where debitage and other pieces of artifacts are found it goes quite a bit deeper this place needs to be studied
Yeah, I figure there were mostly trade routes, especially later on. But I figure the first people to discover that chert, probably tried to keep it secret as long as they could. I bet there were a lot of fights over the rites to that place. A lot was taken outa there for sure. That stuff traveled all over. Hundreds of miles in some directions.If we only knew the story
I'm not sure what parts you're from, but have you heard of Kanawha State Forest? They have a section of old growth forest there, 250+ years old untouched. I want to see you explore the Mary Ingles trails through it in the summer.
@cleggsadventures Neat I'm from western Marion County, Mannington is sort of my hometown. Moved to Charleston this past year though. Not sure Kanawha State Forest is worth the drive, but if you're interested in old growth, keep it in mind.
Do you think it has been washed out from the eroded hill side of a field or do you think finding artifacts in the water would mean that's where they camped or made points back then??
early americans would use canoes to travel the water ways like we use roads hundreds and thousands of years ago lhe streams had a lot more water in them than now.what state are in?
travel times depends if its a full tribe i think like 10 miles a day. if its a few youngsters they could probably go 30 miles easily. i think the average human can go 25 miles in about 8 hours walking. soo 100 miles seems far, but it could be achieved in 3-4 days, with bigger groups add a couple days, with huge groups 10 days or so. but its crazy im sure people then had more stamina also for walking then people nowadays. just because now we have cars ect so who knows maybe a few younger people could go even faster just walking but with horses even faster. so it might not even be that big of a deal really.
@@kellydiver If you’re in a boat or kayak, you can paddle the shoreline and check beaches. You can collect anything in the water. Most land owners don’t care of people surface hunting the shore, as most of it is inhabitable or even navigable, as long as you’re not leaving trash around.But if you were to sift on the beach, as I do, I’d get permission. Friends own where I sift. If I go anywhere else, I just surface hunt.
@@cleggsadventures Great info, thanks! You might even want to do a video about this. It could be helpful for people who want to go out and search for artifacts. 👍🏼
@@cleggsadventures The church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints! All of the ancient artifacts of the hopewell people or artifacts of the book of Mormon! A lot of really cool stuff you found! Love the videos
In the book of Mormon there is a people called Lamanites. They’re basically Native Americans. They would paint their whole body’s red before war. It helps me understand why you keep finding so much of that red stone that they were grinding down to make paint! I wish I could go back in time and talk to these people!
Bro the stones you flipped it minute 230 One of them is a those are giant artifacts. Where do you find the Native American Indian stuff you're going to find the giant stuff because the Giants live there before the Indians well they evolved down to the American Indians the larger giants. Check out the stones that I've discovered at the portable rock art museum in Canada. You're missing out on all the portable rock art artifacts from the ancient people that a lot of the Native American Indians used to make their tools also
@@cleggsadventures well you should when you come across it should explain it to the people you know because the prehistoric ancestors of the American Indians is what those larger artifacts are from. The last battle the Giants occurred on the Mississippi River in 1651.
@@cleggsadventures there was an enormous forest from at least the east coast to the Mississippi, then more on the other side. From Canada to Florida and Louisiana. It was massive. The trees were cut to build ships and buildings and for farming. "Progress".
You have to remember that virgin forests were very open. They did not normally have the thick underbrush we see in our forests now. I have always heard that it was possible to ride a horse through virgin forests.
@@dirtbikeheaven1129 true, some forests are pretty clear underneath the trees and some are packed with life. You can walk around in parts of the older forests in Florida where big oaks and pines are dominant. But forget traveling through the palmettos. The islands in the Everglades are fairly easy to walk around under the old trees. The old forest in NC that I've seen is pretty dense and I wouldn't try riding horses in it. That's all the forest experience I have in the States. I lived near jungle in Costa Rica for 9 years and that's another kind of dense. You can't see 50' in that jungle, or get through without a machete.
Hematite, must have done something for them. I don't think we know what it was. So we just gave them a nickname, right? Redskins! Somehow people want to say, oh that's bad to say that. Why? They painted themselves red so why not call them that? I don't think it would have been considered an insult. They may have been proud of it.
@cleggsadventures I'm close to Charloe ohio it used to be A Indian Villiage it is along the Auglaze River in Paulding County Ohio that's why I was asking I'm A metal detectorist but I also like finding arrowheads and the history of are great state of Ohio.
@@williamheacock4174 Sure you can do this. I would suggest getting a kayak or small boat and hit the gavel/sand bars. If you want to do any of the shorelines I would 💯 % talk to the property owner of the land above the shoreline. Just be honest, respectful and print up a waiver stating you have permission and the owner is in now way responsible for any injury. I would also take a mesh bag and offer to take away any trash you pick up. You could also offer to help around their farm or property in exchange for permission. Good luck!
Your excitement when you find something is what I like about your vids the most, not how much you find.
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Glad to see that these artifacts will be saved from the river. Great video.
@@44thala49 Much Appreciated! Yeah, I’ve saved a lot of them from being forever lost
Scott im glad you got over your flu. Nice video.I hope Rocky gets well soon. Someone once asked me how I found so many arrowheads. Told him to walk down a back road for a couple miles and tell me how many beer bottles he finds. Peace
Much Appreciated! Exactly, and they a Lot more years to lose them.
Thx for showing us the ropes on finding these homegrown artifacts.. cA 👍
No problem 👍
The part when you mentioned that you scrap videos bc of not finding things, I can relate.
This whole thing with looking for points is like looking for a needle in a barn full of haystacks 😂. Lots of work…
Honestly love your videos. Thank you
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i really enjoy watching, listening and learning ... your videos are top notch ! Thanks for the effort you put into them
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Great videos! Always appreciate the work you do for these
I appreciate that!
you do great work and have awesome videos!
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Always a pleasure to watch your vids.
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Another great video Brother!
Thanks Garson, just kinda threw this together real quick
Thank you for making these inspiring videos. You’re great at what you do .
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Man, you inspire me to do the same thing! Thank you.
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You’ve given me the bug! I’ve binge watched nearly all of your episodes. I live in the interior of WV, Roane County. I’ve been looking along some creeks in areas you describe. I haven’t had any luck yet but hope to find some soon!
Creeks are tough looking, the points don’t come as often as the fields or river. But, You’ll find something, keep on looking.
Best best best. Ill never stop looking. Thank you for clarifying your odds. Makes me feel better :)
Yeah, the great places come along seldom. But, ya never know when you’ll walk up on something amazing
Thanks for the info glad you’re feeling better. Take care and good luck
Thanks Tiller
Just went back to my sisters in Newark for Thanksgiving. I watch your videos with my kids and Flint ridge comes up. I got to point it out this year. Would love to see a video from the state park off 16.
All your videos are great and always will be.
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Great Job man!
Please keep the Videos rolling in.
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Love your videos! Hoping to take a trip at the end of the month to the Ohio valley.
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Niceee!! The scooper is awesome! Good info and great finds- thanks for showing 😁
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Cleggs! I very much appreciate your insights in locating the hot spots, I'm new to South Carolina and everytime I go out artifact hunting "I ain't hit a lick"! Being a Jersey girl I've never heard that term before. What it means is I've found nothing! I adore your videos my friend :-))
Very Much Appreciated! You’ll find one.
Another great video. Thank you
Thanks Cindy👍
Love it when you upload a new video! You're videos inspired me to take up the artifact hunting as a hobby.
Very Much Appreciated!👍
He does a great job inspiring us, I so agree.
Enjoyed your video Scott! Sort of different from your other ones and contain some really good information. Thanks for sharing with us!😊
Thanks Jim!👍
Not a bad day! Can't wait to see your next episode!
I’m pondering that one!👍
Great video Scott, thanks for the effort and qualities of your videos...
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👍 Enjoyed, thanks. I'm visiting my mom in Bama and took a 3 mile hike and climb along the Tenn. riverbank to a site named Painted Bluff. UA-cam it, it's amazing. 200 feet high with over 50 paintings known, I saw a bunch of them. On the riverbank there were areas with a crazy amount of fired rock and pottery shards. I only found one worked piece which was a decent sized uniface knife with a damaged end but nicely worked. Man I picked up the flu on my flight here and was down for the count for a solid week and really sick for two with that stupid cough still cropping up, I know what you went through, glad you're well.
Sounds like a great area! Yeah, I’m still coughing
Scott, Thank you for the video. We love to watch your adventures and see our favorite UA-cam movie star. I recently drove al long round trip from FT Worth Tx, to Norfolk Navy NAS and while not exactly near your location, i was looking for that bright yellow jacket and a muddy spot in the rivers, at every big river crossing. HaHa, Thanks for sharing your adventures. Stay well and hope to see more videos as you have time to make them.
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Scott, I'm glad you're feeling better! Very good information about locating these old homesites, and a few great artifacts in the process!❤
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Good stuff. Stay healthy brother!
Thanks Sam
My sister and I love you. We enjoy your videos and your sense of humor.
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Very Good!
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Good video brother, keep up the good work 👍👍👍
Much Appreciated! Watch you last night, you were picking them up 👍
Merry Christmas Scottisabi and family !
Merry Christmas 🎄
Scott, we always love watching your videos--and learn things every time! God has richly blessed you with so many wonderful and creative gifts and talents🤗🤗 We love the creative ways you discover items, how you explain techniques---and love your excitement. Keep up the great work!! May God richly bless you and your family, and channel in the coming new months!🎊🥇🎉 Love and prayers 🙏🙌 from Jimmy and Shirley in Texas!
Much Appreciated Jimmy and Shirley! Merry Christmas 🎄
Great tutorial for how/where to prospect. Thanks for sharing! You're doing quite well at achieving your goal of having good footage, good editing, and good finds!
Thanks Brother, I really enjoy your channel as well. You do it up different 👍
@@cleggsadventures Thanks!
Hope you're feeling better Scott. Send my best wishes to Rocky also. Great video. Very informative. I think I need to make one of those scooper sifters.
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I was thinking of making a scooper sifter myself!
@@charleswerdung8588 They work well. Make sure it’s built strong, they take a beating hitting rocks.
From Ohio and have been to Flint Ridge. A friend who flint knaps says most of the active quarries are on private land.
I’ve heard the same
You dig it and they sell it by the pound.
I believe you can buy flint types from anywhere in the world on line.
@@rodlow6701 Do they still have that? I heard rumors that the folks got to old to run it and closed it down. Wasn’t sure, but wanted to go there sometime.
Good stuff! Keep up the good work! Hopefully water stays down for a while for ya.
Thanks! It’s been really high up here, but going down. Few more days, should be good. Only bad thing is , it’ll leave a lot of river mud behind.
Awesome show,Clegg man 💥💥!!!!! I'm getting over the crud, myself !!!✌️🍀⛏️
Yeah, it was bad around here too
@@cleggsadventures
Yeah, yesterday my arms and legs were weak and I stayed on the couch all day cold...
@@historylooker7 yeah must be the same thing
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Great video Clegg. U explain ur reasoning quite well, and it pays off. I appreciate all ur videos, I bet u do have a bit of footage that doesn't make it, especially if it's anything like my experiences haha. But u keep them coming non the less. So thanks Clegg for another great video. Do u have an idea when a nice flood will come through there, to wash out the leaves ? Are we talking spring time?
Much Appreciated Charles! Happens pretty much every winter, it’s raining now.
Good video. I enjoyed it. You did answer a question of mine, about the vast numbers of faceted hematite stones you find.
I’ve found more on that stretch of beach than anywhere else. I know a creek nearby that has natural hematite everywhere. I assume it was carried in from there
Hello Scott , as usual a great video
I always learn something new from your videos , such, as hunting where there is a flat surface , you always put you Army training to good use ,as in who what where why when , good job soldier . I'm glad you left Rocky
at home too cold for him to be on the river . I hope you don't get any ideas , and paint Rocky red with the
hematite , as usual a great informative
job , be safe brother
@@billcarpenter5145 Thanks Bill, yeah he’s down in the bed. Should paint him up!
Amazing info! I’ve always wanted to find an arrowhead. Probably seen hundreds when I was gold panning and never knew what I was looking at.
I may have to dig around our riverbanks here in Vermont to see what I can find!
Keep up the great videos!
Good luck out there. Probably find some quartz arrowheads.
Wish we had gold here where I’m at
The Flint Ridge stone at the end looks like it has a face on the one side. I enjoy watching your videos. I'd watch even without an artifact find. The process and info is interesting. Thanks
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I agree with u, artifacts or not, just hanging out with him is fun!
That scooper would work good in a couple spots we hunt. May have to make one this winter.
I was thinking the same about some of those creeks ya’ll stand in. U can reach way out with this.
Wonderful video! I love seeing a red cracked rock because I know what comes next 🔥
There’s a bunch of it for sure
Great vid! Maybe not the best of days but we've all been there, probably more often than not lol.
Glad to see the scooper sifter getting some use 👍 Glad your feeling better, but Rocky's probably waiting on some chicken noodle soup. Happy huntin! ✌
Much Appreciated George
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You got the best videos buddy
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As always; great information My cousin had a metal basket mounted on the front of her bike - kinda looks like the one ya got on the end o that pole
Hope Rocky gets to feeling better
Briscoe Darling Jr. says hey & next time ya git to feelin poorly , drop buy for a poultice !
P s 😂 Clegg - You beatbeverything ya kno that ?? !!
Don’t get facetious Ange!😂
Very informative...waiting for your "Look at Dis" t-shirts and hats.
Maybe some day 👍
Hello, Pretty sure I was one of your first subscribers. I wish you would put up your prospecting videos and also the vids you scrapped. I sometimes like to just have some vids on in the background. Like when I'm hiking. It's kinda like having a friend along. Maybe that makes me weird but I don't care. Maybe you could put all the scrapped vids up in one composite. I bet more people would watch it then you think. Anyway your call. My favorite vids are when you play also. Time travel, rocky, the bird.
Much Appreciated! I wish the crazy ones got more views
Hey Scott, I've found a few points just a little up the river from you in Brooke county. I'm now making a sifting box to try it your way.
Good luck out there.👍
i love you videos
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Wondering how much trading maybe was going on amongst different tribes to get items from longer distances. Great info thanks for sharing.
I figure there was a lot of trading, especially with the newer cultures
Love your videos. Im from the clarington ohio are. Work in padem city and sisterville so i bet im close to you
Yeah, I live near Middlebourne
Good video don't think I would tear off on that walk lol
Might do me in, but I’m no stranger to marching 👍
You should make a video on how to make a scooper sifter!
Great vid! Can we get a detailed vid on how to build a scooper sifter?
If I ever build another one.
Hope rocky gets better 💪✌️
He’s a bit better today
Good video. Question I have a boat I want to use to visit these sites but down river from you, lol. How do you find or distinguish the locations that you don't sink up to your knees. Several times I have gone, and I just sink up to my knees. What are the indications or indicators or techniques that you use to find these plateau's that you can walk along? Thank you
Probably the time of year you’re looking, winter and spring are always muddy. But some beaches just hold mud if the aren’t steep enough
Heck yeah
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Hello. Love your videos! Question: Do you think there are so many arrowheads along the riverbanks because the natives/ancients were bow fishing or spear fishing???
Much Appreciated! No, they are washing out of the field above, every time it floods. They are ,I would say, artifacts that were dripped or misplaced around the home. This was a preferred living area for thousands of years, a lot of stuff gets lost.
Have you already done a video regarding navigating the legal issues surrounding artifact collection? If not, can you make one? Your videos inspired me to lookup where locally (Louisville, KY also in the Ohio river) people recommended looking and the first thing I found was an article about a guy getting hit with federal charges.
Yeah, I think digging public land is not legal in KY, only surface hunting. I would have no idea of the laws of every state, nor have time to study them. I recommend asking Chief Smokem, he is from you state I believe.
Hey I’ve recently been interested in trying some of these tactics near the river where I live but Indiana’s laws prohibit digging/it’s public property technically and they also prohibit keeping or removing artifacts. I can’t remember if you’ve said which state you’re in or what laws you have to follow but I guess what I’m trying to ask is what I should do? I would love to find some arrowheads but I’d like to not get in trouble.
Yeah, I’m not sure of your state laws, but I do know guys that hunt fields there.
Around here, it’s almost all private land. We’re not allowed to hunt artifacts on the Ohio River Islands, as the government took them over as wildlife refuges. I’m in WV, it’s a little less strict here.
You may ask “365 HeadHunter” I believe he’s in your state and finds nice stuff. He would probably know the laws there.
Are u able to get to the base clay ok with the scoopersifter?
Yes I hit it several times
Wearing Missouri gold. I like it. 😁😜
That’s WV colors 👍
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I highly doubt there were many pilgrimages to Flint ridge of 90 miles or more there were probably a few. But more likely it's the result of a trade Network between different groups and villages and whatnot. I live in muskingum county myself I'm a rock on so I like going up to flintridge for multiple reasons. Place is a Wonder that as far as I know has never been meticulously studied. All you got to do is go up to something like nether's farm where the lapidary clubs excavate the pits down to the Flint heads sometimes and things are 10 to 15 ft deep in that entire layer to that flinthead it's almost nothing but debitage. An occasional granite hammer or billet. But you are absolutely right it's not technically Flint. Its chalcedony mostly. But the patina does darken with age. I haven't found any fully intact pieces from paleo age but I have found quite a few fairly large fragments. I found a beautiful double fluted piece just the middle of it the bottom and top were broke. But what I'm telling you stuff that people were identifying is Paleo coming out of the ground is not the deepest layer where debitage and other pieces of artifacts are found it goes quite a bit deeper this place needs to be studied
Yeah, I figure there were mostly trade routes, especially later on. But I figure the first people to discover that chert, probably tried to keep it secret as long as they could. I bet there were a lot of fights over the rites to that place. A lot was taken outa there for sure. That stuff traveled all over. Hundreds of miles in some directions.If we only knew the story
I'm not sure what parts you're from, but have you heard of Kanawha State Forest? They have a section of old growth forest there, 250+ years old untouched. I want to see you explore the Mary Ingles trails through it in the summer.
I’m in Northern WV, never visited there, but don’t think it’s far
@cleggsadventures Neat I'm from western Marion County, Mannington is sort of my hometown. Moved to Charleston this past year though.
Not sure Kanawha State Forest is worth the drive, but if you're interested in old growth, keep it in mind.
I’d be down there all day/night giving the opportunity, unbelievable
I’m there often
Do you think it has been washed out from the eroded hill side of a field or do you think finding artifacts in the water would mean that's where they camped or made points back then??
Yes, washes out of the bank every flood.
what do dolomite fire stones look like?
No clue, I don’t find any in my area.
I would say that the Indians would have used the river to go to places for different supplies.
Yeah, I figure they would travel the water ways as much as possible.
True
early americans would use canoes to travel the water ways like we use roads hundreds and thousands of years ago lhe streams had a lot more water in them than now.what state are in?
WV here
travel times depends if its a full tribe i think like 10 miles a day. if its a few youngsters they could probably go 30 miles easily. i think the average human can go 25 miles in about 8 hours walking. soo 100 miles seems far, but it could be achieved in 3-4 days, with bigger groups add a couple days, with huge groups 10 days or so. but its crazy im sure people then had more stamina also for walking then people nowadays. just because now we have cars ect so who knows maybe a few younger people could go even faster just walking but with horses even faster. so it might not even be that big of a deal really.
That’s about what I figured.
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Awesome as usual. Would it be possible to send you an email. I believe I found an artifact but would like to someone to verify.
I can on Facebook George.
Awesome thank you. @@cleggsadventures
Is the shoreline of the Ohio River all public property?
Not around here, mostly private property.
@@cleggsadventures So you have to get permission from the property owners to search for artifacts, correct?
@@kellydiver If you’re in a boat or kayak, you can paddle the shoreline and check beaches. You can collect anything in the water. Most land owners don’t care of people surface hunting the shore, as most of it is inhabitable or even navigable, as long as you’re not leaving trash around.But if you were to sift on the beach, as I do, I’d get permission. Friends own where I sift. If I go anywhere else, I just surface hunt.
@@kellydiver Also, if you’re on the Ohio River, you’re not allowed to hunt the islands, they are federally owned wildlife refuges now.
@@cleggsadventures Great info, thanks! You might even want to do a video about this. It could be helpful for people who want to go out and search for artifacts. 👍🏼
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False alarm. I can now
Are you LDS? You find tons of hopewell Mormon artifacts!
LDS ?
@@cleggsadventures The church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints! All of the ancient artifacts of the hopewell people or artifacts of the book of Mormon! A lot of really cool stuff you found! Love the videos
@@brandonerickson3935 much Appreciated
In the book of Mormon there is a people called Lamanites. They’re basically Native Americans. They would paint their whole body’s red before war. It helps me understand why you keep finding so much of that red stone that they were grinding down to make paint! I wish I could go back in time and talk to these people!
@@brandonerickson3935 Must be the same people, I find so much red hematite
Bro the stones you flipped it minute 230 One of them is a those are giant artifacts. Where do you find the Native American Indian stuff you're going to find the giant stuff because the Giants live there before the Indians well they evolved down to the American Indians the larger giants. Check out the stones that I've discovered at the portable rock art museum in Canada. You're missing out on all the portable rock art artifacts from the ancient people that a lot of the Native American Indians used to make their tools also
Yeah, I don’t get into that stuff. Too much arguments
@@cleggsadventures well you should when you come across it should explain it to the people you know because the prehistoric ancestors of the American Indians is what those larger artifacts are from. The last battle the Giants occurred on the Mississippi River in 1651.
Have those fields been cleared for 1000s of years? I thought that area was a giant forest before the Europeans came.
I would say you’re correct. I imagine huge growth trees in most areas, but the land would have been flat.
@@cleggsadventures there was an enormous forest from at least the east coast to the Mississippi, then more on the other side. From Canada to Florida and Louisiana. It was massive. The trees were cut to build ships and buildings and for farming. "Progress".
You have to remember that virgin forests were very open. They did not normally have the thick underbrush we see in our forests now.
I have always heard that it was possible to ride a horse through virgin forests.
@@dirtbikeheaven1129 true, some forests are pretty clear underneath the trees and some are packed with life. You can walk around in parts of the older forests in Florida where big oaks and pines are dominant. But forget traveling through the palmettos. The islands in the Everglades are fairly easy to walk around under the old trees. The old forest in NC that I've seen is pretty dense and I wouldn't try riding horses in it. That's all the forest experience I have in the States. I lived near jungle in Costa Rica for 9 years and that's another kind of dense. You can't see 50' in that jungle, or get through without a machete.
Cool video but you are telling all of your secrets 😅
Always something up my sleeve 👍
Hematite, must have done something for them. I don't think we know what it was. So we just gave them a nickname, right? Redskins! Somehow people want to say, oh that's bad to say that. Why? They painted themselves red so why not call them that? I don't think it would have been considered an insult. They may have been proud of it.
Yeah, they obviously were proud of it. I find a lot
Man I love your videos!! I have a handful of cool finds. I want to share them with you to help identify them. Is there a way to do that😅
I’m on Facebook. Can’t share pictures on here
Can i do this in Northwest Ohio to I am close to the Blanchard and Auglaze rivers?
I don’t know that area
@cleggsadventures I'm close to Charloe ohio it used to be A Indian Villiage it is along the Auglaze River in Paulding County Ohio that's why I was asking I'm A metal detectorist but I also like finding arrowheads and the history of are great state of Ohio.
@@williamheacock4174 Sure you can do this. I would suggest getting a kayak or small boat and hit the gavel/sand bars. If you want to do any of the shorelines I would 💯 % talk to the property owner of the land above the shoreline. Just be honest, respectful and print up a waiver stating you have permission and the owner is in now way responsible for any injury. I would also take a mesh bag and offer to take away any trash you pick up. You could also offer to help around their farm or property in exchange for permission. Good luck!
Clegg. I've seen the iron Red, People!
Safety First
I have yet to see one