Fascinating! Never thought about the drying speed being a factor in identifying rocks before 😀

You got that right 😂😂

Playing devil's advocate, I don't see anything other than a natural rock here.

@HistoryHoundDetecting

3 ай бұрын

I can appreciate that.

I recently discovered a very late Mississippian site where they were harvesting lumber. There were rocks just like that there, and I could tell they were using though rock to shape the inside arch of wood. Like the inside of a canoe. That’s what the little matches for in the one end of it. Almost like a gouge, or a scraper you might pick up made of chert. They may have used it as a hammer stone as well, but I bet they also used it on wood. Many of the Mississippi an age tools I have found have that seem very familiar shape.

Very cool 😎 I have a hammer stone 😅😅😅

As always enjoyed the content and your observations Mr Ben. Happy hunting

@HistoryHoundDetecting

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for watching

Great instructional video.

Great info man. Now I know what to look out for.

@HistoryHoundDetecting

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment bud!

Thanks. That was informative.

Very cool to know this...thanks!

@HistoryHoundDetecting

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Wally!

Wow, that is such would advice!! Ill deff be useing this trick, an ur right about us beginners, its all a tool an artifacts lol!!! Sending positive vibes from KY ❤

Interesting piece HH. I think I need to be paying closer attention while I'm wandering out and about. All the best in 2021! GL&HH!

@HistoryHoundDetecting

3 жыл бұрын

Best of luck to you as well!

Great video! Very informative!

@HistoryHoundDetecting

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Great info and very cool piece of history in the palm of your hand. Good luck, happy hunting and take care.

@HistoryHoundDetecting

3 жыл бұрын

Appreciate you watching!

You're a deep thinking man Ben. I love the way it dried!

That is interesting and informative.Thanks

@HistoryHoundDetecting

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Ron!

Great stuff this helps a lot

@HistoryHoundDetecting

3 жыл бұрын

Good to hear Christopher! Thanks for watching.

I’ve only been able to find 1 finger print that saw in a pottery shard.

I did not know about the ware on rocks that is such an amazing tip. I found my first arrowhead over the weekend it is a levanna point

@HistoryHoundDetecting

3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations! You’ll never forget that arrowhead!

Pretty cool! I have several almost identical, and some much bigger, spaling stones ! And one from green stone about 8 inches long and chipped out for fingers and on the back end for the thumb, oit is my first find!

@HistoryHoundDetecting

3 ай бұрын

Very cool!

Great video buddy

@HistoryHoundDetecting

3 жыл бұрын

Appreciate it Josh!

How neat is that.. I'm close to Murphy NC.off Hemptown creek I see lots of rocks that may be tools sure could use expert opinion?

Delaware river

How old do you think your hammer stone is?

@HistoryHoundDetecting

6 ай бұрын

That’s be almost impossible to tell without some scientific testing or stratigraphic measurements. Tools like these spanned much of historic times. But based on the artifacts associated with it I’d say at came from the mid-late archaic period…or even early woodland.

Lenape tribe 😂😂

With you fingering those pressure points looks like you're about to throw a mean knuckleball towards home plate lol could the pitting vs smooth areas not be simply due to how the object was settled during exposure / weathering And the type of surface (or absence thereof) that it was settled against?

@HistoryHoundDetecting

2 ай бұрын

With three distinct levels of wear on the stone with two of them only existing in key areas that would coincide with use as a hammer stone…I feel like that it’s very unlikely that any of it occurred naturally. Also add in the fact that the stone was a river tumbled rock that I found on top of a hill…that means it was moved there. Not any doubt in my mind as to my identification being incorrect. That in itself means little…other than to say that I feel like you’d have a harder time coming up with evidence for natural forming than you would for my supposition.

@HistoryHoundDetecting

2 ай бұрын

That being said….there are many rocks I find that I struggle to call an artifact even though I see slight evidence. I try leave identification open in those cases. But this particular stone wasn’t one of them. It was an EASY iD.

Nice rock.

@HistoryHoundDetecting

3 ай бұрын

Thanks

Today was my first day to hunt after really doin GB some research. I found a ton of flint chips, fire rock and plenty of evidence of a camp sight. I didn't find a single Arrowhead/Artifact. The area is very sandy. Do you think someone already wiped out all the good stuff? Any advice?

@HistoryHoundDetecting

3 жыл бұрын

I really couldn’t say. Sandy soil is foreign to me. But I’d lean towards saying no if you are finding debitage. Try running some of the soil over a screen if you are able to.

@leighton300

3 жыл бұрын

Will do man. Thank you for your time!

they are actually pieces of totems much love and good eye

Do you have any effigies 😂😂

@HistoryHoundDetecting

15 күн бұрын

I don’t. Many years looking but none yet.