Started Treasure Hunting

[brooksbeefarm]

My Dozer man( Mark) was supposed to be up there today (not heard from him yet?) He is going to cut a road inside the fence line and clear about 2 or 3 acres of creek bottom land that i will plant clover and bee friendly plants. This wood land has Sumac, wild Blackberry and Raspberry plants and many more bee friendly plants and trees, plus several hundred acres of neighboring wood lands joining it and Weaubleau creek a 1/4 mile down the hill. Mark said he still pushes out round rocks in the area, but natives have gathered most of the easy to find ones, that the old timers made stairways, fences, flower gardens, fireplaces,ect. with them? Mark has some big as bowling balls along the sides of the sidewalk of his new house, looks neat.The 40 acres with the cabin my son and i sold 2 years ago had several around where i kept my hives, but i payed them know mind, just thought they were something the Indians made for games and i would kick them down the hill and see how far they would roll Wish i knew then what i know now. Jack

[Jen]

Barbarian ~ Yep! Huge iron barrels, or tubes, hooked onto toothed gears turned the barrels with the ore and iron balls inside. Must have been a noisey process 

[Michelle]

I would love to come along with you and treasure hunt! It sounds like you are finding a lot of cool items!

[lazy shooter]

Thanks for the explanation of how the miner's balls were used.  I sure didn't think miner's had iron balls.   On a more serious note, I find an occasional arrow head on my ranch.  There is one creek that usually has water all summer and there is a nice rock basin that holds the water.  Apparently, it was a camp ground for some early Indians.  There is a lot of flint chips where someone worked on tools.

[Slowmodem]

Old coal-burning power plants had ball-type pulverizers that crushed the coal before  blowing into the furnace.

On another note, I used to watch a show called "Meteorite Men" and they used metal detectors to find meteorites.  They also used magnets a lot because meteors are iron-based.  Of course, during a show, they turned up a lot of meteor-wrongs such as cans, plows, barbed wire, etc.

[riverbee]

les~
"Very cool.....we went hunting for flat river rocks and all I got was bruised knees from falling." 

just catching up on this thread, les, this made me laugh!.................

hmmm, been there done that!

[Barbarian]

I am curious about the finding of arrowheads.

I presume they are non-metallic.
What design ?    Clovis,  Folsom,  Leaf,  Barbed and Tanged,  U shaped .....

[efmesch]

When Blueblood came to visit Israel, we toured together.  In the dry stream-bed in the Valley of Elah we collected round stones----the kind that David used in his slingshot against Goliath---right on location.  The picture he uses in his avatar was taken there.

[brooksbeefarm]

I don't know all that much about the types of arrowheads? These are made of flint with sharp points with the shoulders for tying them to the shaft, we find many that are broken called points the bottom part and the upper part called bottle necks or caps. The tribes in this area were Osage, Sac, Fox,Shawnee, Cherokee, and Kickapoo, there are people around that can tell you what tribe made the arrowhead that you found? Myself, i just know it's an arrowhead, and when i hold it in my hand i'm thinking, i wonder what the fellow looked like that made it? was it lost hunting or was there a battle going on ect.? I went yesterday to the 36 acres that i'm having the dozing done and seen he had brought the dozer over and will probably start tomorrow 12/21/15. I walked about 300 ft. up one creek bed looking for artifacts, but found nothing, probably because i didn't know what i was looking for , but i didn't care, i love walking in the woods and creek beds watching wildlife and looking for things of interest. Jack

[riverbee]

i know a little barbarian about the different types of arrowheads/spearheads, and mine are all non metallic, and many types.  i have one that is very rare, a tang, it's most likely cheyenne. (wyoming USA) it's beautiful. it was given to me by my great grandmother. i will dig out the photograph of this and will post this one.........the tang is really cool, it's curved.  the neatest one i found recently was a spear head on my own river in wisconsin, i have not had this looked at yet.  sometimes hesitant at having them looked at.  been there done that, too many questions for my liking.

[brooksbeefarm]

I found one last week that had three sharp sides going to the point, never seen one like that? Jack

[Barbarian]

In the UK we have something called the Portable Antiquities Scheme.

Finders can have their finds identified, recorded and returned to them.

The website is www.finds.org.uk. You might like to visit the site and do a search for "arrowheads" or whatever.

[riverbee]

wow, what a neat website barbarian!  i don't know of any website here that is similar, but really haven't searched.

i haven't had time with christmas sales and christmas coming to post the pix i promised, but will when i have time, i think those who enjoy 'treasure' hunting for artifacts will appreciate the finds. 

jack, ya need to post pix my friend!  love to see what ya have!!!
oh, wait..........hmmm, it's not worth anything you can send them to me..............lol!.............