I've pretty much looked for Indian artifacts much of my adult life and while growing up. I have always looked for them while building golf courses, and found them just about everywhere, but since my wife and daughter bought as lake house in the mid-section of South Carolina, I spend a good bit of time while there looking for relics. The attached photo is of a quartz scraper (about 3 1/2" long ) that I would recently.
Guessing that Terry has probably found a few in North Carolina ....... any others?
I’m always on the lookout…but I’ve never found anything…too hard living in a jungle…Mother Nature covers it all up VERY quickly.
I did find the grave of an old Indian doctor/medicine man from the 1890’s, his name was “Doctor Jack”…and he treated local indigenous folk and white settlers alike. His grave had been lost and missing for many decades, and the state had been looking for him. Well…I found him, in somebody’s backyard on a hillside.
Never any artifacts though…lots of the old indian village sites here are covered up by apartments and parking lots. But…on my adventures in the woods exploring…I’m always on the lookout!
That’s a cool scraper. If I lived closer to ya…I’d invite myself along to go huntin’ with ya!
We have a "midden" on Caldwell Island about 1/2 mile off of Horse Point full of bits and pieces of Mic Mac trash and local folks here that are very good at walking around and reaching down to pick up an arrowhead.
Our late Don Wood in Tenants Harbor had an extensive "life-long" collection of artifacts.This area is loaded with that stuff.Lots of activity on the islands and mainland shore-line.
quote:
Originally posted by Texican65I’m always on the lookout…but I’ve never found anything…too hard living in a jungle…Mother Nature covers it all up VERY quickly.
I did find the grave of an old Indian doctor/medicine man from the 1890’s, his name was “Doctor Jack”…and he treated local indigenous folk and white settlers alike. His grave had been lost and missing for many decades, and the state had been looking for him. Well…I found him, in somebody’s backyard on a hillside.
Never any artifacts though…lots of the old indian village sites here are covered up by apartments and parking lots. But…on my adventures in the woods exploring…I’m always on the lookout!
That’s a cool scraper. If I lived closer to ya…I’d invite myself along to go huntin’ with ya!
Knocking around in the woods and discovering thins is a lot of fun. During my last relic hunting trip I discovered an old turn-of=the-century (around 1900) farm house that never had indoor plumbing and probably not a kitchen. This place had to be out in the boondocks when it was built as it was 20 miles from the nearest city and very little evidence anything else was ever around it. To find relics, you really need to be on old dirt roads or farm fields that have been plowed and there is raw dirt, preferably after a good rain. I have found points before sitting right on top of a little column of dirt.
Most any heads found here originated from Mt. Kineo in Moosehead...the sole source of flint in Maine.
My Great Grandmother from Port Clyde was a full-blooded American Indian.Some of the artifacts from around here have a personal connection.
quote:
Originally posted by steve davisMost any heads found here originated from Mt. Kineo in Moosehead...the sole source of flint in Maine.
Interesting Steve, but although most points you find are made of material close by (and our case here probably quartz), indiginous people wound up carrying material over pretty long distances as trade material. So it is not unusual to find say a flint point in an area where most are quartz. You also realize that the majority of points that you find are probably from 1,000 to 10,000 years old. Some people say thay go back to 15,000 years, but there has long been a debate as to how long people have inhabited the Americas. Regardless, most of them are very old!
Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Privacy Consent (EU/GDPR Only)
Copyright 2026 Banjo Hangout. All Rights Reserved.
