An Artifact Hunter's Worst Nightmare Plus Another Pot In The Hole!
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- As the old saying goes, even the best-laid plans often go awry. No matter how hard we try sometimes things go wrong as it did on this dig. We were back with Sam and Andy at the site where Sam found his broken banner last year (link below). We met up with Al, Chris and Will from Newton County and Timothy Kirk from the Christian Archaeology Arrowhead Hunting channel (link below) After breakfast we had another great dig, plenty of arrowheads and some very cool pottery comes out of the ground too. So please join us on another spectacular arrowhead hunt and adventure! Please let us know what you think in the comments and as always, thanks for watching.
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Its always frustrating when you find a bowl or pot and you think its all there, then there's some missing. I can't tell you how many times that's happened to me. It's still exciting making the find though.
Good hunt fellas , y’all doing good
Thanks!
I have been binge watching your videos. Thank you for sharing your adventures !! Love the videos !!!
Thank you! We appreciate that and your great comments.
Another great video… nice finds gentlemen!
Thanks!
Great hunt, Spike!
Thanks Tim!
Good finds that day!!!
Thanks!
Nice finds guys ,hey Spike have you ever thought about getting a plastic shovel it might help you out some with broken points,just kidding it happens to all of us great video guys.
That's why they don't let me dig much!
Good job guy's
Thanks!
Pretty place! That pottery is nice.
It is a beautiful spot for sure. I'm anxious to see if Sam gets any of it together.
We have several whole pots (water jugs actually), the trick is to splash water on it as soon as it comes out of the ground(quickly) or it will crumble to pieces.
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Well spike it still amazes me I've hunted for 40 yrs also and we get so used to saying well that's 3500 years old and we associate that point with a particular individual but there could be say 4 or more generations in a hundred years that's a 140 generations of people since that point was used talk about history !
Great point! Thanks for stopping by and for the great comment.
Very good day diggin. That pottery is truly amazing. Do you all ever find whole pots or things like that?? God Bless all you guys. Keep diggin and siftin
Thanks! We haven't found a whole vessel....yet!
Love the looks of that site… y’all had a good day for sure… wish I could find something 🤬
Thanks Jeff! Hopefully you'll get onto something soon. Good luck and Merry Christmas my friend!
@@HeartbreakerRelics same to all of you as well
Nice finds!! I love the pot peices. Sorry about your broken one!! You all take care and happy hunting.
Thanks and GL&HH to you too.
great intro music.
Thanks! Glad you like it
Awesome guys great video who is that kirk guy lol watch out for him God bless yalll
I don't know who he was. He just showed up. He's a good looking rascal though, ain't he? lol We really enjoyed it Timothy. God bless you my friend.
Great hunt, guys! Love that you are finding pots that are mostly there.
Thanks! Yep, that's pretty cool. It's just a matter of time before we find one whole.
@@HeartbreakerRelics I imagine those tree roots are awfully hard on them.
@@indianasmith8152 they are!
Actually the legs are called Tetrapods
Spike, I had an insurance man tell me that accidents just don’t happen, they are caused. Hopefully you were forgiven for your little accident. Shame the pottery doesn’t survive intact. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Jack but they'll never let me live it down. Good luck up there and Merry Christmas to yall.
As always enjoyed watching thanks for sharing 👍
It is our pleasure. Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment.
.Great finds, great team, great friends, as always a video with great editing. Greetings and blessings to each of you friends.
Thanks so much my friend!
Awesome finds among awesome friends! Great video, Spike!💖
Thanks! We're glad you enjoyed it.
The worst part is I left a comment on the last video saying "be more gentle with the artifacts" I deleted the comment though because I didn't want to sound rude... I should've left it on there 🤣 great stuff as always but be more gentle!
lol yep, it may have saved this point. Thanks for the input.
Fine Kirk
Thanks!
Way to go Spike and the gang ! Beautiful place to be hunting arrowheads with good folks. Love the Kirk stemmed . Thanks for letting us see those pots , even unfinished they are amazing finds . Those pots just give another glimpse into a by gone culture and their art. Never ceases to amaze me how they lived completely off the land . Thanks for the awesome video.
Thanks Ron. I think about them all the time and how they may have lived and how they undoubtedly had everything down to a science. They didn't get up every morning and wonder where their next meal was coming from. They knew where it was and how to get it. Just like us going to Walmart.
I'd like to know your rules about who gets the find, what deferring means, just how you guys decided all that and how it works if you don't mind sharing that information.
We just take turns when a point shows up in the sifter. If we don't like it we can "deffer" it to the other person and wait for a better one.
Great day guys congrats to all on their finds..
Thanks!
Awesome vid and hunt Spike!! No doubt y’all had a fantastic time!! Good folks and fellowship while finding artifacts….my kinda fun!! 👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks Mike. It was a lot of fun buddy. Watching that pot come up out of the ground was really cool. We kept thinking Sam was going to find the whole thing. Sooner or later that's going to happen. Hope to see yall soon.
I have a artifact that know one can tell me what it is? Ive looked in books and sent pic of it to people but the pics don't show it very good? Can I mail it to you.
@@HeartbreakerRelics 👍🏻
@@idahomike100 sure you can or you can or you can email me some pics to
spike39560@gmail.com
@@HeartbreakerRelics I will email pics but they don't really show it good and you can't feel how polished it is,kinda like polished marble
Nice finds guys!! It's special to see y'all finding them pots thanks for sharing those. It's a bucket lister for me. Keep bringing it spike and company. 🏹
Thanks John! Will do!
Omg the finds were absolutely amazing i hope that the pot can be put back together as much as possible
Thanks. So do I.
Dang,I wondered how you guys didn't break one now and then
That TQ degrades so bad in some soils. They become almost like hard clay. I have seen them crumble in your hand. Not the case here though. It was fragile but I should have known better. The first whack with the shovel had already done major damage so I guess the other two don't really matter.
Need to be a- you bust it you keep it rule
lol You know I thought of that when I was editing the video. I had later told Al he could have the first one out of the sifter.
@@HeartbreakerRelics that material goes to almost nothing up here in theses red clay hills the tip and ears almost brush off in your hand because the acid in the clay I guess . I always wanted to get a hammer and bust up a big chunk of it to see how strong it is to start with . There ant any deposits up here that I know of .
I was only picking at you about rules , I always watch y’all to see what you’re finding and I’m never disappointed. Keep turning dirt and keeping God fist because that’s what maters most .
I like how they good points always make people humble and they start thinking God for the find that is always the best part. I alway do that as well because I know my help comes from above and it’s good to see other people giving God his dues out in the open .
Like I said keep turning that dirt and may God bless y’all with a pocket full ever time y’all go out .
Spike, will the clay pot pieces hold together better when they are dried? Nice Hunt!👍
Yes they do will. Up until last year all we ever found was small pottery sherds then the larger stuff started showing up so we're still learning the pottery deal. Thanks for stopping by. I'm waiting on another one of your videos!
@@HeartbreakerRelics pressed for time here. Searching the river, I find 50¢ size pieces 👎
Awesome video and always sharing when you tag me on fb
Awesome thank you!
If you dig long you going to bust up some for sure
That's right especially the TQ stuff.
Question? I get creek points but never dug. How do they get so deep down there? Those holes are deep! Is there like a certain soil color in order to stop digging? Newbie here.
Each site is different. You have to dig until you are no longer finding debitage (chips and flakes).
@@HeartbreakerRelics hey spike, question. So I dug for like 6 hours yesterday and found millions of flakes and brokes, but I didn’t dig deep enough to the point of finding nothing. I would just change spots after so many flakes. So I should be digging past the flakes until I’m finding nothing to increase my chances of finding whole points? Thanks!
@@rysrelics once you stop finding flakes then don't dig any deeper. Sometimes you just have to move even if you're finding tons of flakes. We had to do that a while back. This sifter was literally clogged with flakes every time but after a couple yards of dirt we moved then found three points within the first 15 minutes.
@@HeartbreakerRelics Wow!! I wish you could take a look at the property so you could point me in the right spots haha! I know there are killers under this ground. If you’ve seen any of my videos you can get an idea of what I’m talking about
@@rysrelicslol heck we point ourselves in the wrong direction
at times. it gets confusing when your finding that much material and no points. On the other hand I've been on sites with very little debitage and enough points to keep you interested. Keep moving. You don't have to move much. Just a few yards and try something else.
There's a product called Paraloid B-72 that you need to check into. Another channel I watch uses it to hold together fossils that are falling apart. In reading up on it, it should be perfect for recovering the pottery and keep it intact. Of course you would have to be more precise in the excavation of the pieces!
Thanks. We'll check it out.
I feel that being in the ground the pot was wet. I've also noticed that when you pick up a wet piece that if you let it dry it becomes harder, or not as fragile. Do you think it would have been better to dig a little and let it dry, then dig some more?
It's possible. We haven't dug many large pieces of pottery until the past year and we're still learning. It may be something we may need to try. Thanks!
I pick up alot after the fields are plowed and get rain on. When I find them they are brittle and will crumble In your fingers. The longer it's in your pocket or in the sun, it dries alot of the water out. I've also seen where the archeologist will leave the pot partially exposed.
I'm guessing it's because of this reason. I got a college level archeology book I'll have to read thru and find out if it says anything about this
I have no doubt that you all know what you’re doing, but the best thing to do in a situation like that, is to make yourself some wooden sticks, sharp, blunt, whatever, and dig out what you need to without too much damage. Thanks for the video gentlemen
I tend to agree with you on this! Thanks for watching and for leaving a comment. We appreciate it.
Do you guys ever think of laying out a grid and excavating everything down to the base layer instead of potholing all around? You might have a better chance of recovering more of the broken pottery pieces to reconstruct. I do enjoy your videos
We have thought of that and plan on doing just that as soon as we can find another good site on our permissions in Louisiana. Thanks for watching and for the comments.
Gotta admire their pottery~ they weren't in one location long enough to create a proper kiln. So it seems their pottery is ultra fragile and rare...and served a almost religious, medicineman/woman , shamanistic purpose. Who knows!
That's right. Who knows? But every time we pull a large piece of pottery out of the ground a thousand questions run through my mind.
my dad growing up would go looking once in while. Also people should only do this to respect Native culture. Leave any bones. Keep records of any possible find. Join archaeology society. Get permission on any property. It may be illegal to collect thes finds. See the laws and customs from others. This is not about making money.
I seen some "mudlarking" vids from England...looking for mostly antiques stuff, and they need gov permission. I guess they only give out a few permits.