Kevin I just found this thread. I guess that I am a day late and a dollar short. Man I am speechless. I have seen your carpentry work so your son got his talent naturally. Completely awsome pics, cabins, views and interior decorating. You guys have talent.
I would kill to have those indian artifacts. Those artifacts to me show the skill and inventiveness of the American Indians. Some of their stone chips and obsidian chips are as sharp as a razor. I have seen an entire deer field dressed with just those stone and obsidian chips. It surprised me just how efficient they can be. The other cool thing is if your chip breaks or stops cutting cleanly then just break off another chip.
I really would love to have some of the obsidian tools, spear points and arrowheads. They just look so cool and they are razor sharp. Obsidian arrowheads and spear points have been found hundreds of miles away from any obsidian sources so they were also prized by the Indians and many times used as trade goods.
Greg,
My oldest son is the one with the talent with the carpentry just to name one. My youngest son is the tool maker. Points found by my oldest who l think is gifted. But sometimes the ol man has a trick up his sleeve! Found during a garden harvest for squash! How it survived the tiller? Mind blown @1911
My mom’s family settled the city of Lexington, NC not too far from Winston Salem. My Grandfather and Grandmother still owned a big block of the origional homestead. My Grandmother grew up finding Indian pottery, tools and arrowheads. My Grandfather always had a big garden. Everytime my brother and I stayed with them we would always be hunting. We would also walk the creek banks and check the sections of clay for any Indian relics.
Everytime my Grandfather would disc or till his garden my Grandmother would go out with my brother and I and we would find arrowheads. Like you there were times that we would also find a large beautiful arrowhead but the majority of ths time they would have a nice straight line where a disc had cut it in half. The smaller arrowheads you had a good chance of finding an intact one. My Grandfather had a box full of indian relics. We would keep a couple of arrowheads but the majority of the relics we would add to my Grandfather’s box. I know that he donated a lot of them to the state. I am glad that we did give most of the arrowheads to my Grandfather because as kids we ended up loosing most of the arrowheads that we kept. I would love to actually get my hands on an obsidian arrowhead. I have seen them in museums but that is it. You are one lucky guy.
All I have found tilling at our place was old horse shoes, and parts of old farm implements. Original farm house was built in 1926. There is an old one row seed planter dating from 1920. I think I posted pics of it on another thread…
