This is where my love of getting out and looking for relics began,I used to go with my Dad looking for arrowheads...thanks Dad...you are the best Dad a boy could ever had been blessed with
The small rock you found was a knapper. It fashioned arrowheads. I found one myself digging for old bottles. Two indian items close together might signal more finds.
I really enjoy longer videos. I know some say if it's over 10 min they fast forward, but they're missing out on so much knowledge and history! Thank you for the 20-40 min videos. I love them! And Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family!!
I am so excited that I found your Chanel!!!!!! My father was a Civil War collector and got me into medal detecting. I got married and started having kids. Now years later they are in college. So how we get the family together is to go on mineing trips and medal detecting. Lol I even bought a school bus and converting it into a camper. You are doing such a great job keep on rocking brother!
(3:20) More than likely a form of discoidal, not a grinding stone. On my UA-cam page, you'll find a video I did on this specific tool type, the discoidal. Used to protect the palm of the hand or leg while flint knapping or making flint tools. This is why one side is round for the palm of the hand and the other is flat with an indentation in the center where the bone tool used to chip the flint left grinding marks. This would be held in the hand and a spall of flint placed on top held in place with the fingers, then a piece of bone, antler, or another stone used to chip the flint into a desired shape. Google image search "discoidal" and you'll find many images of the same style tool.
I find Indian stone often in my area also! Mostly the old round grinding stones. Although this year I fount the "mortar" stone! They are awesome to find!! :
Either a Nutting stone, though I didn't see the "dimples " that are found on Nutting stones. I was thinking an adze maybe? Good call though, you might be right
Beau, I contacted a "Medicine Man" cousin and he said you're stone was used by medicine men for grinding roots for medicines. So your stone belonged to a medicine man. Some can be seen at the Moundville Museum in Alabama.
Indian head? Gosh, I hope you returned it to the Indian who lost it! Poor fella. (Dem likes - also, fun story time: when I was living in Southern England there was a very old church close by to where I lived. One day an 18th century burial vault by the church porch completely caved in. When you looked into the exposed grave you could see the skull peering back at you! And a smashed coffin covered in a thin layer of dirt and brick fragments. Coooool!)
I love watching your videos! All I usually watch is gun and 2a related channels... been subscribed to you for a few years and your channel is the only one I allow notifications on!! I could watch you all the time, looks fun! Merry Christmas to you and the chiggnation!!!
You cracked me up with the "old dirt" comment! Talk about old...I have a large rock found it in my backyard when I lived in Ronkonkoma NY years ago. Found out that it is 10,000 years old, and was deposited in my yard at the end of the Ice Age. So it was formed before Christ was on earth, before the flood, and the patriarchs! Can send a picture as I thought it was a dinosaur egg, cute.
The round at 29:51 is an older .32 acp. Made by Browning in the late 1800's, it looks as though it's circa 1900, or so looking at the bullet design and casing. The Makarov, Colt M1903, Czech VZ70, and Walther PPK.
Look up effigies and All of the stones around this whole huge area. Take drone shots from above . Then uncover and catalogue them all where you found them. I love this video and I believe this may be a goldmine for the hand held axes, celts, effigies, and stones that are smoothed to fit the hands and body...( something I am discovering on my own by combining all this info, And holding the megalithic made celts etc. Studying megalithic monuments and goddess etc figurines) Great video!!! If you do revisit please look for more of those smoothed etc rocks. I think there might be literally hundreds! Are they monolithic? Magnetic? Does a design form across the land by the way they were layed down PREVIOUS to the war???? Ok thanks Have a good one!❤️
I think the 1/2 stone found was for pushing bone needles.awls through leather hides. The later slab stuff you found looked like slate, too soft much of anything,
Thank you chigg for taking so much time to make video,s.their all really good and I learn alot from them.merry christmas and a great new year to you and your family.
That round Rock was probably a gaming piece. They flattened then on the bottom so they stop right where they land. Or a pot smoother. Here in AZ we find lots of those
The small round stone was most likely used to grind as in a mortar and pestle, but against a flat surface or used to smooth something. I have a few like it in my paleo-indigenous collection.
I hope you have hand warmers of some kind 'cause that ground looked darn cold. Thanks for yet another great adventure diggin' stuff before the ground gets too frozen. We had snow on the mountain last night, here on the Big Island of Hawaii and it got dang cold. I was glad of my fleece blankets I can tell you. With no insulation nor heater whatever the temp outside is, is what the temp inside is. I think I am going to invest in a small heater. Be sure and stay warm and have a very Merry Christmas!
Yes that also could be the case. Sometimes one stone has multiple uses. The fact that the flat portion of the top looked worn indicated abraded to me but it’s hard to tell sometimes for sure
May be an abrator, but I'm more inclined to guess that it is the hammer portion of a Nutting stone...there may be a larger stone with a flat spot or pit somewhere near it.
Your an awesome detectorists and honest man with great morals we love watching your videos Merry Christmas keep up the good work loved all the artifacts found! Awsome job!
I actually did see the round stone and immediately suspected it was an artifact of some sort. At first I thought it may be a Chunky stone (for playing the game of Chunky) but I couldn't see the detail. It actually appears to be either a hammerstone or a mano. Spike
The round rock you found along with the stone plow is the beginning of a concave stone being pecked to make a game stone called a “chunky”. The other side would have been done the same and it would be thrown and rolled on the ground and the young natives shoot arrows at it.
I have found a couple of them too and was thinking the same thing... I dont have any laying around at the moment, but have saw them in the poles out west.
December hunts. Unbelievable!! Glad you could be out and having fun! It's cold here in Michigan! Below zero right now. Lots of snow. Hope your Christmas was happy. Looking forward to a great 2018!
In respects to spear/arrow heads... are you aware that many more "clovis" type flecked points have been recovered in Cactus Hill, Virginia then Arizona? Putting into extreme question migration/population theories previously forwarded.
@@billkaufman1726 He is referring to the Solutreans (people of what is now western Europe) that may have crossed the ice bridge spanning the Atlantic Ocean onto the east coast ~17,000 years ago. Archaeologists have recovered Clovis-type bifaces in Virginia pre-dating Clovis out West. These artifacts also matched the time period/style of the western European artifacts, which suggested that North America could pre-date Clovis culture by a few thousand years. It is pretty interesting. The Smithsonian Channel on here has videos explaining it ua-cam.com/video/ImaiEBVc32Y/v-deo.html
The forest dwelling indians rarely used spears or arrows. The arrows were very small and bows about two foot long. The weapon used for war and hunting was the atlaytle. Bows and arrow was used for birds, rabbit and squirrel, also fishing. But fishing was mostly done using traps.
I think you had a spirit friend with you the Vicks Vapor Rub smell & the metal detector acting up would be consistent with a spirit! my great- great grandfather smells like that! I thought it was a good hunt "thank you" I always enjoy watching you!
Copper staples are used for round copper braided ground wire or #08 or #10 gauge solid copper wire, that ran down the side of buildings from lighting rods to ground! Prevents corrosion! Wouldn't use steel staples it would be dissimilar metal which would cause corrosion!😊😉
This makes me want to get my metal detector back out and go hunting again. I actually found my first Native American point while metal detecting. It’s great to find both since you’re looking at the ground anyway. Funny story is though, my Dad is 73 and he swears I found the point with my metal detector 🤣
If you hunt civil war sites close to a railroad, you will find alot of telegraph wire. Soldiers used it to repair things or make art. I found a flower made out of it once.
HI Chig..Merry Christmas.. It appears to me the large rock is a bone or meat scrapper..I have found similar pieces in caves and rock shelters in Algeria Desert...Cave men stuff Chigger ..Great finds.. Enjoy your vids Great stuff..You are one of my favorites on UA-cam. How about doing some gold detecting in Oklahoma .."Wichita Mountains" and New Mexico ..You can weave some great stories around these places..
This is where my love of getting out and looking for relics began,I used to go with my Dad looking for arrowheads...thanks Dad...you are the best Dad a boy could ever had been blessed with
The small rock you found was a knapper. It fashioned arrowheads. I found one myself digging for old bottles. Two indian items close together might signal more finds.
I really enjoy longer videos. I know some say if it's over 10 min they fast forward, but they're missing out on so much knowledge and history! Thank you for the 20-40 min videos. I love them! And Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family!!
sharon zona I never fast forward. I just put it on and let it go. The longer ones are the best
sharon zona agreed!
Copper Fence Staple -- used to hold ground wire for telephone poles - old time.
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Agree, used them when I worked for a utility back in the 70s
I am so excited that I found your Chanel!!!!!! My father was a Civil War collector and got me into medal detecting. I got married and started having kids. Now years later they are in college. So how we get the family together is to go on mineing trips and medal detecting. Lol I even bought a school bus and converting it into a camper. You are doing such a great job keep on rocking brother!
(3:20) More than likely a form of discoidal, not a grinding stone. On my UA-cam page, you'll find a video I did on this specific tool type, the discoidal. Used to protect the palm of the hand or leg while flint knapping or making flint tools. This is why one side is round for the palm of the hand and the other is flat with an indentation in the center where the bone tool used to chip the flint left grinding marks. This would be held in the hand and a spall of flint placed on top held in place with the fingers, then a piece of bone, antler, or another stone used to chip the flint into a desired shape. Google image search "discoidal" and you'll find many images of the same style tool.
I love how excited you get! 😊 I often wonder if a random person walks by and sees you conversing with yourself, how funny you must look! Lol
"turn the shovel off" just love it
You are such an interesting man. I love how you talk a lot about historial things, that’s why i like your videos. ;)
Saw the worn out round grinding stone,.I was like hmm maybe you saw it and must be a mason jar lid. Some cool finds!
I find Indian stone often in my area also! Mostly the old round grinding stones. Although this year I fount the "mortar" stone! They are awesome to find!!
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What part of the country you from?
and the round stone with flat area looks to be a small grinding stone, maybe for nuts and berries...etc.
Enchanted Reveries i thought that same thing straight away...❤
Either a Nutting stone, though I didn't see the "dimples " that are found on Nutting stones. I was thinking an adze maybe? Good call though, you might be right
I’m not alone, thank goodness
Beau, I contacted a "Medicine Man" cousin and he said you're stone was used by medicine men for grinding roots for medicines. So your stone belonged to a medicine man. Some can be seen at the Moundville Museum in Alabama.
Percussion stone
Not all mini balls are from the war, people also hunted with them for years in that time period.
Indian head? Gosh, I hope you returned it to the Indian who lost it! Poor fella.
(Dem likes - also, fun story time: when I was living in Southern England there was a very old church close by to where I lived. One day an 18th century burial vault by the church porch completely caved in. When you looked into the exposed grave you could see the skull peering back at you! And a smashed coffin covered in a thin layer of dirt and brick fragments. Coooool!)
That would be cool to see
I love watching your videos! All I usually watch is gun and 2a related channels... been subscribed to you for a few years and your channel is the only one I allow notifications on!! I could watch you all the time, looks fun! Merry Christmas to you and the chiggnation!!!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to Aqauchigger and family, plus the Chigg Nation!
That little silver thing you found says Climax on it. I think it may be a suspender clip or a pocket watch chain clip.
it looks like the clip that my dad used with a flat band to hold his socks up.....i am 70 .
You cracked me up with the "old dirt" comment! Talk about old...I have a large rock found it in my backyard when I lived in Ronkonkoma NY years ago. Found out that it is 10,000 years old, and was deposited in my yard at the end of the Ice Age. So it was formed before Christ was on earth, before the flood, and the patriarchs! Can send a picture as I thought it was a dinosaur egg, cute.
The round at 29:51 is an older .32 acp. Made by Browning in the late 1800's, it looks as though it's circa 1900, or so looking at the bullet design and casing. The Makarov, Colt M1903, Czech VZ70, and Walther PPK.
Look up effigies and All of the stones around this whole huge area. Take drone shots from above . Then uncover and catalogue them all where you found them. I love this video and I believe this may be a goldmine for the hand held axes, celts, effigies, and stones that are smoothed to fit the hands and body...( something I am discovering on my own by combining all this info, And holding the megalithic made celts etc. Studying megalithic monuments and goddess etc figurines) Great video!!! If you do revisit please look for more of those smoothed etc rocks. I think there might be literally hundreds! Are they monolithic? Magnetic? Does a design form across the land by the way they were layed down PREVIOUS to the war???? Ok thanks Have a good one!❤️
I think the 1/2 stone found was for pushing bone needles.awls through leather hides. The later slab stuff you found looked like slate, too soft much of anything,
Thank you chigg for taking so much time to make video,s.their all really good and I learn alot from them.merry christmas and a great new year to you and your family.
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Thank you Aquachigger for another great video and have a very merry Christmas 🎄
I hadn't watched anyone digging for Civil War stuff before. It's very interesting.
Copper staple was dropped by a lineman. We use them every day to nail our copper down grown to the pole .
That round Rock was probably a gaming piece. They flattened then on the bottom so they stop right where they land. Or a pot smoother. Here in AZ we find lots of those
The small round stone was most likely used to grind as in a mortar and pestle, but against a flat surface or used to smooth something. I have a few like it in my paleo-indigenous collection.
They used those round stones that are flat to grind corn meal and berries. Really awesome find I found some really nice arrow heads a few days ago..
I hope you have hand warmers of some kind 'cause that ground looked darn cold. Thanks for yet another great adventure diggin' stuff before the ground gets too frozen. We had snow on the mountain last night, here on the Big Island of Hawaii and it got dang cold. I was glad of my fleece blankets I can tell you. With no insulation nor heater whatever the temp outside is, is what the temp inside is. I think I am going to invest in a small heater. Be sure and stay warm and have a very Merry Christmas!
Round rock making arrow heads ,used to protect hands and give place to work on..as they chipped out arrow head..
The second small rock you found that was flat on top looks to me like an abrading stone. Used to soften stone before making it into an arrow point !
Could it possibly be the hand held part of a grinding stone for corn?
Yes that also could be the case. Sometimes one stone has multiple uses. The fact that the flat portion of the top looked worn indicated abraded to me but it’s hard to tell sometimes for sure
May be an abrator, but I'm more inclined to guess that it is the hammer portion of a Nutting stone...there may be a larger stone with a flat spot or pit somewhere near it.
Caleb Kelly with the multiple functions note, once flatened like that, it would have been good for the top holding rock for a bow fire starter.
Great to see you out again well done on some cool finds.. Take care and have a great Christmas..
I like how you dont disrespect the site and put everything back. I hate to see people dig and leave, thanks
Your an awesome detectorists and honest man with great morals we love watching your videos Merry Christmas keep up the good work loved all the artifacts found! Awsome job!
Already subscribed years ago. I always like and watch every video you post.
Of Course. Your Welcome.
Wonderful Native Artifacts. Again, another great video, thank you.
I actually did see the round stone and immediately suspected it was an artifact of some sort. At first I thought it may be a Chunky stone (for playing the game of Chunky) but I couldn't see the detail. It actually appears to be either a hammerstone or a mano.
Spike
Hey, Beau, that second stone looks like the door knob to the teepee ,Merry Christmas,glhh
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The round rock you found along with the stone plow is the beginning of a concave stone being pecked to make a game stone called a “chunky”. The other side would have been done the same and it would be thrown and rolled on the ground and the young natives shoot arrows at it.
At 20:28 I think it’s 1883 because the left side off the 8 looks different than the last 8 so I think it’s a 3
I’m glad you grabbed that Little round Rock. I was getting anxious. Lol
Utility poles use copper staples, Beau
I have found a couple of them too and was thinking the same thing... I dont have any laying around at the moment, but have saw them in the poles out west.
I always watch your videos right through. Why would I not ? 🤗 xx
December hunts. Unbelievable!! Glad you could be out and having fun! It's cold here in Michigan! Below zero right now. Lots of snow. Hope your Christmas was happy. Looking forward to a great 2018!
In respects to spear/arrow heads... are you aware that many more "clovis" type flecked points have been recovered in Cactus Hill, Virginia then Arizona? Putting into extreme question migration/population theories previously forwarded.
Glenn Bayley no
@@billkaufman1726 He is referring to the Solutreans (people of what is now western Europe) that may have crossed the ice bridge spanning the Atlantic Ocean onto the east coast ~17,000 years ago. Archaeologists have recovered Clovis-type bifaces in Virginia pre-dating Clovis out West. These artifacts also matched the time period/style of the western European artifacts, which suggested that North America could pre-date Clovis culture by a few thousand years. It is pretty interesting. The Smithsonian Channel on here has videos explaining it
ua-cam.com/video/ImaiEBVc32Y/v-deo.html
Yes we really don't know for sure so yes it definitely does.
The forest dwelling indians rarely used spears or arrows. The arrows were very small and bows about two foot long. The weapon used for war and hunting was the atlaytle. Bows and arrow was used for birds, rabbit and squirrel, also fishing. But fishing was mostly done using traps.
Love your videos man. Haven't found anyone that has more interesting digs. You definitely deserve more subs and likes than you get. God bless!
Btw, 3:25 I believe is a grinding stone.
that silver thing with the design on it is a suspenders clip
Hi Beau, some good finds there. Merry Christmas to you and Lyndsey. xx
Awesome finds! I want to get out there and dig! Love your song!
Happy Holidays Everyone!!
ElectrikFunk merry summer!
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Merry Christmas
Your videos are so so interesting. I absolutely love your disposition!
I think you had a spirit friend with you the Vicks Vapor Rub smell & the metal detector acting up would be consistent with a spirit! my great- great grandfather smells like that! I thought it was a good hunt "thank you" I always enjoy watching you!
Possibly a stone skin scraper or knife to the left at 26:50
Merry Christmas Beau and Lindsey.
who is lindsey ???????
Lindsey = Mrs. Beau Ouimette
I want to go adventuring with you!! I love This type of thing!! Love looking for indian artifacts arrowheads and would love to find treasures with you
Its even awesome when you find melted aluminum! You make it exciting! Thanks man!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Mr & Mrs Beau and thank you for your video's Mate from Gavin & Family from Bribie Island Queensland , Australia.
I think the round stone is a hammer stone used in napping flint
@31:47...it's a brass fan weight (balance)---clips on to one of the fan's trailing edge.
Copper staples are used for round copper braided ground wire or #08 or #10 gauge solid copper wire, that ran down the side of buildings from lighting rods to ground! Prevents corrosion! Wouldn't use steel staples it would be dissimilar metal which would cause corrosion!😊😉
The stone at 3:30 is called a game stone, they would roll the stone and use it as target practice with spears or arrows
I enjoy this channel as much as anything on UA-cam 😎
The way you say PLEAAAASEEE watch the video is just so CUTEEEEEEE
Would a child a plastic shovel work for digging the dirt and running it over the detector?
I'm guessing the small smooth round stone was probably used as a game stone. Discoidal. My guess anyway. Merry Christmas
I have collected Indian artifacts since 1961.
My brother just gave me a metal detector.
I am following your guidance on how to use it.
The small smooth stone looks like a sprocket/bearing block for a bow drill used light a fire.
Great video as always ! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Beau & family from my wife De and I !
Farmers used to use copper nails and staples to kill unwanted trees. That might be what that copper staple/buckle was used for.
This makes me want to get my metal detector back out and go hunting again. I actually found my first Native American point while metal detecting. It’s great to find both since you’re looking at the ground anyway. Funny story is though, my Dad is 73 and he swears I found the point with my metal detector 🤣
You can even tell through the dirt that the Indian cent was an early drop within a few years of being released for circulation.
16:39 that tree would make one kick-ass table
Words never heard in Aquachiggers childhood home, "You're driving me crazy. Go outside and play"!
Great job Beau, that round rock maybe a lip stone.
i dont know what the round stones are but they are artifacts i find them every time at sites.
If you hunt civil war sites close to a railroad, you will find alot of telegraph wire. Soldiers used it to repair things or make art. I found a flower made out of it once.
They do make copper plated horseshoe nails. I've found them on telephone poles to fasten the ground wire down it.
The small round rock was probably used to ground seeds with on the bigger one. Thanks for the video. Merry Christmas
the little round stones were used to pound hides to soften them up
theres another indian stone at 3:25 to the left of your hand. its rectangular with a squared end profile. ive got one just like it.
18:40 Maybe they loaded 2 bullets in the rifle and thats the impression from the base of the top bullet
That's cool I too have found some old Indian artifacts
JD (Variety Channel) would have had an apoplectic fit if he'd scratched up an Indian Head like that! Nice find, Beau!
I like seeing the T2 back in action on the last two videos.
The smaller round stone you picked up looks like a discoidal.
Looks like you had a fun day out on your own. Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays Beau.
That small silver thing looks like a class from a pair of suspenders.
@18:40 mini that was in a RM that was double loaded. This was the bottom-most bullet.
Not sure but the sliver rectangular piece could be the part of a watch fob that would clip on ti a pocket.
Love your videos aquachigger! Happy holidays to you and yours.
The rock at 3:24 looks like a mano, they were used with metates to grind grain.
paint bowl used to grind paint on.
That little round stone was a grinder for corn
I think that is a fence staple, I've found a lot of them near me that look exactly like it.
HI Chig..Merry Christmas..
It appears to me the large rock is a bone or meat scrapper..I have found similar pieces in caves and rock shelters in Algeria Desert...Cave men stuff Chigger ..Great finds..
Enjoy your vids Great stuff..You are one of my favorites on UA-cam. How about doing some gold detecting in Oklahoma .."Wichita Mountains" and New Mexico ..You can weave some great stories around these places..
that round rock looked like a perfect hammer stone to use for knapping
I can't believe you're jamming the shovel in like that. I'm a nervous wreck looking for you to slice something great.