I found over 15 gallons (Three 5 gal. buckets and more) of pecked and ground...then smoothed, stones for general purpose work, I'll guess. Some had holes drilled into them (platform stones) and some had concavities (abrasion for points/tools).

I'll just keep most of them (smaller ones)and make a shadow box to place on the wall for conversation pieces. I have some more I found on other land that I might sell/trade for things I need for the family...several Dalton Chattahoochie points, nicer Archaic points, and other points, etc. PM/Email me if you wish.

Thanks, Troy. It took from early June to just a week ago to find it all. I felt I owed the respect to the Ancient folks' spirits/memories to save these items of their ancient culture from certain destruction. The ones you like are nice ones. Several other nice items that were broken by the cat were VERY disappointing. I saved all the larger stuff quick as I could...as the D8 cat was returning to do more work. The points/darts/knives washed up in the weeks following after small rains. I saved several celts and clubs from certain crushing by returning to hunt them down.

I also found 16 sherds of bright, scarlet glazed pottery.

The place was used intermittently from the Transitional Paleo Phase (as evidenced by the diagnostic points/flake knives)...through the Archaic/Woodland Phases...to the Late Mississippian Phase.

There is a nice double spring head located just 50 yards away and they form a branch head. It has old tree planks still in the bottom about 3' down. (I had to dig it out for the cows, as a boy, and I left them.) This place was known as Double Springs. The springs still function today. Another nice spring is located 100 yards away and still produces plenty of water. Three more smaller springs dot the nearby area. (I dug up 4 spring from old springs for deer this July.) The site is located on the exact 'flat top' of a 2 acre hill. You're very right, 300gr ! They selected optimal camp areas probably under large, sparse, shade trees...nearby desirable (for foraging food) hickory and oak stands. Just 3/4 mile 'as the crow flies' is Chubbehatchee Creek.

I conclude my land was a large Base Camp for bringing in game for processing, re-tooling hunting weapons, trading, meeting mates, a place where several major trails converged, and as a safe haven for Archaic interior band(s) attached to larger tribes. 15 ancient campfire circles were exposed by the cat. Small and medium size prepared nodes of scarlet ochre dot the darkened ground around them. The ochre color matches the pottery sherds' color. I also found anciently broken, greenish-grey soapstone (steatite)sherds that served as eating/cooking slabs...said to be older than pottery. They still retain the original gouge marks when quarried. Amazing stuff.


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