Wow you got some awesome stuff!! And I commend you for taking the time to explain what we are looking at!!!some people show stones with plow marks on them and expect us to know what it is without explaining it.!!
👍 Ha!, that thick pottery made me chuckle... those folks were serious, boy! Please upload more like this, really enjoyed it. That beveled edge piece is killer. That discodial piece looks like a poor man's chunky stone. Thanks
I have been picking up arrowheads, axes, celts, and a couple gorgets in northeast Tennessee since the early 70s. I lost a bunch of stuff when my house burned down in 2023. I am too old to get out and walk the places I used to when I was young. I would walk right past net sinkers and pottery shards for many years and now you can't even find pieces of pottery anymore because people even pick that stuff up now.
Wonderful collection.... Im going to say the oddball knife has a bottle opener on the one side.... WV Indians always drank Stoney's and would have needed a good bottle opener 😉.
Love to see these videos, have hunted arrowheads out west in Colorado but not since moving to WV. Live near Berkeley Springs now. Thanks for posting and educating us all.
Beautiful place you got Clegg.. (little jealous, lol).. Good finds. Glad they turned out real nice once you were able to get them cleaned. Thanks for the quick synopsis on them.... Wishing you a few more good days for searching before the weather turns, (we got a bit of snow up in Michigan already)... And from Lansing, (MI) wishing you and your loved ones a great week.
You have such an interesting house! I am an antique and oddities seller by trade, and live in a very non-descript home in Morgantown W.V. - from the outside it looks like a run-down junker, but on the inside it is a lovely hidden gem full of beautiful old objects. Love the table display case!
Man your videos are always so awesome. Felt like I was right there sitting in your living room with a beer in my hand talking arrowheads lol. Thanks for sharing your knowledge my friend. Truly appreciated. Looking forward to the next one as usual. Happy holidays from Boston.
Many years ago, my dad was working on a job site on a house. They were digging the foundation in Zanesville Ohio and he found a white arrowhead that looked exactly like that was wanting to know something about it. It is really nice one. Love your channel.
Awesome video Scott !!!! The Quill pen handle is a very cool find. Love the knowledge. It's so much fun learning new things. Thanks for sharing brother and many blessings.
I’ve found dozens of nutting stones in my yard and they’re all in proximity to a very old group of hickory tree and stumps. The holes perfectly fit the shells of the hickory nuts
My Cherokee ancestors have a few burial grounds around here and when it floods the creek people can go to a certain place and pick up a lot of Arrowheads in the mouth of the creek. In the 80s two men came here and found the burial grounds and dug up a rock hatchet as well as a head dress. They were caught and they were punished severely. You have great specimens of native American history thank you
Awesome finds! love seeing large personal collections. Only got out maybe 3 times this year, and found nothing. sighted in my new rifle, and found a nice blank right on the ground, where many have stood, many times over the years.
You have an awesome collection Scott! Great video, and yes, I’ve found some very thick pottery sherds from the bottom of vessels. I’ll have to measure the thickness but I have some that might be an inch thick.
Thanks for the great post. In socal. I found many hammer and anvil stones, trained eye sees all, one camp had a production line of tool kit stations along a small spring seep creek as if it was in use yesterday.. My favorite is the forearm length and shaped worked pick and shovel Piece that came up from a propane pipe trench.. Black dirt is a clue. Your collection is awesome. Once from a foundation trench a hand sized chopper came up. Still razor sharp. I surmise for very large game. Happy hunting and great to learn from you.
As an aside in socal I leave a tobacco offering as here its an oak acorn tradition not maize culture. on my pueblos visits a corn chip offering suffices from my chip snack bag...I've seen the cirruti mammoth site,..max the mammoth also. One closeby tenaja spot has pic tographs on a rock that also has a princ
Princess. She has an alabaster pendant sourced from channel islands 100 + miles north. im curious as to how it came south. By land or sea? I was stuccoing a custom home on the camp pendalton marine base north boundry and the owners showed me the report full disclosure from escrow. She was studied in the 70s then re intered. I've seen cirruti Mastodon site, and diamond valley max display too. thanks again for the great videos
That's a great collection and interesting information, thank you for sharing. My dad found a gorget in the garden and took it to the serpent mound museum and they thought it was a decorative piece. Be interesting to hear what you have to say about them.
Dude -total respect..been watchin your content for quite a while and here you have the home of my dreams I've been wanting for decades. My collection doesn't quite look like yours either
The nutting stone riddle was solved a few years ago by a flint knapper. Even today, antler bases work best for knapping, but the flint tears them up, and they need to be continuously dressed. A sandstone works well for this, you twist it back and forth to redress it, and it creates a divot as you do so. After a while it gets too deep to do a good job, and you have to start a new hole. The nut mortar never made sense to me, this makes perfect sense. What surprises me, is the old school relic collectors that won't give up the nutting stone theory. There was an article in the Ohio Archeologist a few years ago about this.
Hey Scott! Great chilly Sunday video! I use modern single bevel broadheads bowhunting deer and can confirm that they do cut a spiral wound track. That being said, I believe you are 100% right about the right handed knappers bit. That split notch is crazy! What a thing to find. That’s a real one off.
Have a circular hand held stone with a groove about 3/4 inch in diameter going through it. Grooved as your stone . Figured it was smoothing the shaft of an atl-atl. I too havea thick piece of pottery .......about 1/2 inch thick.
I wonder if there were ancient natives who went looking for ancient artifacts sometimes and were excited over their finds, or even had their own collections they held dearly to them and even traded among other collectors?
Hey great collection! Thanks for showing it. That rounded piece that your friend Bill gave you... could that be a natural Concretion? ...? Possibly picked up and used? Concretions are often round with a different colored piece in the middle. Just wondering. Thanks!
Greetings Clegg, Merry Christmas from SW OH, and thanks for inviting us to view some of your ongoing collection! I have seen some thick pottery shards from Mississippian sites. The bottom or base of some of their water jugs with the high necks can be very thick, as well as some of the side walls of the jugs. The bottoms were tichest to prevent damage when setting them down full of water. About the only way to know for certain where the obsidian point originated requires a Lab ID of the material. It likely was traded with someone from another area or culture. It is apparent that with the use of canoes and waterways after some of the Ice Age melting, they had vast rivers and streams to traverse. For instance, one of my ancestors was the War Chief Attakullakulla. He was from the British Columbia Algonquin area. His parents were Mohawk and Iroquois adopted by the Cherokee. At the time he became a Chief he lived in the Carolina's before eventually moving to establish and help build 7 villages in and around Knoxville, TN. One way to ID your pieces can be to to document and initial them using a graphite pencil or non permanent marker. If you ever want it can be easily removed. I used to know all of mine by heart, but over the years have forgotten where a few of my larger stone tools originated. Bevels vary depending on whether it is held upright, or point down. I had a gorgeous Dovetail that was beveled with a serrated edges. This was sometimes decorative or ceremonial. A spear point would do damage enough on an Atlatl without the use of bevels to spin to do damage. Perhaps bevels had a specific use related to removing skins from meat? Transitional points exist. Whether or not your point reflects being a transitional point is debatable, but they do exist. Thanks for sharing and all the best on your new year of discoveries!
Very Much Appreciated... ;) Jokes aside, I thoroughly enjoyed this vid! I like your theory on the beveled edges. I too could never believe it was for spinning the projectile once launched.
Could the nutting stones be made for grinding up medicine? Maybe there are multiple holes because they wanted to keep medicines separated. Could they have used antlers that have since rotted away as the pestles and that’s why we don’t find many made from stone?
Love all of your videos! I've watched most of them and learned a lot I have a guess about the corner notch/side notch knife blade. I hunt with stone tipped arrows that I made and attached the points with real deer sinew. When lashing the point to the shaft you wrap the sinew around the notches and the shaft and then backwards across the shaft at a 4/5-degree angle and then around the shaft behind the point, then wrap back the way you came to lash the point evenly, forming an X wrapped around the notches and behind the point. What if the side notch was designed to hold tight to the shaft and the corner notch was designed to put backward tension grabbing onto the shaft so that when the sinew dried it held fast to the shaft in two different directions?
Very cool pieces with unique engineering. Theory on the beveling: in aviation, flap extension and trim on the wings help to maintain straight and level flight. Perhaps the projectile point engineering incorporates this as well. Straight and level flight would increase speed, distance and precision when pursuing agile game.
Listened to you again... not likely a physics of flight explanation. Interesting. Went down a new rabbit hole, thank you! HuntPrimative video from a few years ago helped inform me too. Thank you for enriching us with your adventures and knowledge!
It has been a while since I saw a video of yours. Thank you for answering my comment that it was a right hand. However, I'm still confused. I will reply back when I find that video. Happy Holidays from Western PA.
I love your channel because I’ve learned so much and you always take the time to explain everything! Even though I’ve never gone hunting for artifacts and have none, I love learning about them! Thanks for all you do!👍🏼😊❤️
Could the little round stones have been for drilling holes in wood or other stone? Maybe they could be mounted in the end of a stick and spun with a bow for drilling? You have some fascinating stuff. I'd love to find a place to hunt artifacts around Virginia. I live by the Chesapeake Bay and there's a lot of history here. Also I used to live in Costa Rica. I found pottery shards all over that country, from up north in the mountains by a live volcano (Arenál) down to the southern Pacific beaches down by Panama. There might be old stone tools too but I didn't notice any.
Beautiful collection of artifacts. Always neat to find stone age tools and weaponry, although I haven't found anything myself, watching channels like yours is highly educational. Even when you're unsure and ask for viewers opinions, I can appreciate that. Awesome video!
That tip with the side and corner divots is really interesting. Have you considered hafting some of your cool finds? Tandy leather sells synthetic " sinew". You pointed out a less ancient tip that didn't have the bottom ground dull, so as not to split the haft. Older points for spears were dulled , I don't understand Stopping a process that protected the integrity and delivered a better impact. I found a large axe head in West Texas. A man in East Texas bought it. He told me there Is a guy at Texas A &M who has studied the techniques of hafting and he was hoping to get him to do that for him. By Large I mean it was around 6" long, 4" wide, 1.5 " thick. Nicely worked, but without the obvious 3/4" radiused relief your axe heads show. Maybe what I found was more of a big scraper or a spear point for big critters. ID really like to see that point, with the very different bottom corner work, hafted. IDK what the drills were being built to drill. I have Zero experience with solving the day to day problems the people of the past were working to solve, but I Think a sharpened antler would make a pretty good awl. Thanks for taking us with you on your adventures. I really appreciate your willingness to say I don't Know And follow with your best guess. ID like to see some tips hatred and used. What a Cool home, Thanks,,
@@dadparker3569 Much appreciated. This may explain it a little better. I’m assuming the dart shafts got smaller and lighter, to where they didn’t need to grind it. Improvements in technology. Why Would a Stone Age Person Make This Weapon Dull? th-cam.com/video/ld-b6LZU98U/w-d-xo.html
Your two different notch point is awesome. I got a couple odd ball things that people don’t think it is what it is, but I know what it is, just like you know those two notches weren’t a mistake. Finding the odd ball stuff is the best to me, someone sat down thousands of years ago and said you know what? I think I’m going to make something different or especially cool, and they had no idea people like me and you would find it and love it
Your point about beveled edges and wear was interesting. Do you have an idea why a knapper would choose a biface edge over a one sided beveled edge? If it wears faster what is the advantage? Could it be that the knapper of the biface edge just hasn't thought things through?
Just a thought. The point with two different notches. Maybe the point was found by another knapper and it could have been years apart and he simply notched with his technique. I've only been knapping for two years now, and I make only one style of point. I am just not good enough at it to make any other type that turns out half way decent. I found a Hematite piece years ago about the size of those cones you have and I was told they would wrap them in rawhide and attach them to a stick handle and were used as a war club. I have only found one it was a perfect ball that was pecked not smooth like your cones.
Obsidian from Yellowstone would be the banded peak deposit. If you hold that point up to the light, is it banded mean seethrough lines and dark bands? If not, then it could be from the glass butte complex in Oregon or the rainbow mahogany and Lassen Creek varieties from California. Love your house by the way. It's such a cool design
Was out on a couple hundred acre bush property that I owned north end of the Northern Territory Oz for some 13 yrs & found a few old points & tools there . . the site of my camp eventual on edge of a sandstone escarpment was a reduction floor for quartz spear points from the actual quarry site as in a formation a conglomerate of sandstone with quartz nodules embedded within it very close by , that was exposed at the edge of the plateau that was main body of the block . . when struck with each other these quartz nodules found around eroded out of the matrix fractured conchoidal as in flakes like razor blade . . like obsidian native glass , found a quartz knife a fair way down stuck in side of a monsoon burst eroded channel on my cleared powerline track that had been native bush before , read the interesting slim publication by anthropologists Peter Hiscock & Scott Mitchell held in the Charles Darwin university library about indigenous knapping in north Oz & timelines . . never talked about those old tool finds before & could who knows invite further investigation , there was already aboriginal 'sacred sites' on property & did't at time want anymore bother in that regard
Hey Clegg...I love the oddball stuff. I noticed that the side notched/corner notched point has a broken base corner on the side notched side...I've found dozens of side notched with the same base damage. I theorized the base was intentionally fractured because it was in the way as the blade was resharpened. And beveling? Bingo...conservation of material
@@cleggsadventures at 9:55 it looks like the base is extremely squared off...but then I'm not holding it 😉 At any rate...something to look for in the future...I often asked myself...what are the odds of a disc hitting just the base corner on so many points? Unlikely.
If you will take a look at a pump drill, you might conclude that nutting stones with a smooth indention May have been used on the top of the pump drill as a weight to hold the stick in Place while making fires.
I live in OH and I have 2 obsidian arrowheads; someone told me they were fake but they could have been made with "imported" obsidian from Wyoming or elsewhere out west, so I believe they are authentic.
Scott, how did you find the answer to some of the mystery pieces? Specifically, I'm thinking of that ivory pen handle. Do you have a museum resource or friend that helped I.D.?
Those bevels come from stone reduction. Those pieces show up during stone reduction occasionally. The bevel reduces the energy to get the point. Seriously it comes down to use of simplicity of material use.
Between 2005 - 2016, there were 7 obsi artifacts found in Tennessee and Alabama. They were sent to a laboratory for testing. I live in Middle Tennessee.
Great display of your finds. It was cool to hear the identities too.
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Wow you got some awesome stuff!! And I commend you for taking the time to explain what we are looking at!!!some people show stones with plow marks on them and expect us to know what it is without explaining it.!!
@@wimpychimpanzee6077 Much Appreciated
Loved this video!! Thank you for posting as always.
@@DoogiesEarthworks Thank you as well
heck yeah..whats up doogie..was just watching your videos..excellent work buddy
@@jackscott6551 Ayeeeee whats up Jack, much love and appreciation brother.
Nice display Scott. One thing about this hobby is we are always looking for answers. Peace
@@David-n7w9f Much Appreciated! For sure
👍 Ha!, that thick pottery made me chuckle... those folks were serious, boy! Please upload more like this, really enjoyed it. That beveled edge piece is killer. That discodial piece looks like a poor man's chunky stone. Thanks
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I have been picking up arrowheads, axes, celts, and a couple gorgets in northeast Tennessee since the early 70s. I lost a bunch of stuff when my house burned down in 2023. I am too old to get out and walk the places I used to when I was young. I would walk right past net sinkers and pottery shards for many years and now you can't even find pieces of pottery anymore because people even pick that stuff up now.
Wonderful collection.... Im going to say the oddball knife has a bottle opener on the one side.... WV Indians always drank Stoney's and would have needed a good bottle opener 😉.
Love to see these videos, have hunted arrowheads out west in Colorado but not since moving to WV. Live near Berkeley Springs now. Thanks for posting and educating us all.
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Wow, great collection and awesome home!!
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Beautiful place you got Clegg.. (little jealous, lol).. Good finds. Glad they turned out real nice once you were able to get them cleaned. Thanks for the quick synopsis on them.... Wishing you a few more good days for searching before the weather turns, (we got a bit of snow up in Michigan already)... And from Lansing, (MI) wishing you and your loved ones a great week.
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You have such an interesting house! I am an antique and oddities seller by trade, and live in a very non-descript home in Morgantown W.V. - from the outside it looks like a run-down junker, but on the inside it is a lovely hidden gem full of beautiful old objects. Love the table display case!
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Awesome collection Scott! Great video, more informative and educational than you would see on History or Discovery channels. Thank you Sir!
@@garsoncornwell5382 Much Appreciated Garson
That’s a great collection of points. Love to see if you ever write a book about your experiences and finds.
Thanks for sharing! You have some very nice pieces.
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Man your videos are always so awesome. Felt like I was right there sitting in your living room with a beer in my hand talking arrowheads lol. Thanks for sharing your knowledge my friend. Truly appreciated. Looking forward to the next one as usual. Happy holidays from Boston.
@@walker9379 Much Appreciated! You have a good holiday
Many years ago, my dad was working on a job site on a house. They were digging the foundation in Zanesville Ohio and he found a white arrowhead that looked exactly like that was wanting to know something about it. It is really nice one. Love your channel.
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Great video! It was very educational as always. Much Appreciated 👏
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Clegg glad to hear from you again 😂😊👍
Never know when I’ll pop up. 👍
Awesome video Scott !!!! The Quill pen handle is a very cool find. Love the knowledge. It's so much fun learning new things. Thanks for sharing brother and many blessings.
Awesome. Love all your videos! Got creek rock for a drive way and recently found two points right in the drive.
@@zachazoid5205 Nice!👍
I’ve found dozens of nutting stones in my yard and they’re all in proximity to a very old group of hickory tree and stumps. The holes perfectly fit the shells of the hickory nuts
My Cherokee ancestors have a few burial grounds around here and when it floods the creek people can go to a certain place and pick up a lot of Arrowheads in the mouth of the creek. In the 80s two men came here and found the burial grounds and dug up a rock hatchet as well as a head dress. They were caught and they were punished severely. You have great specimens of native American history thank you
Cherokees were known for full beards .
Awesome finds! love seeing large personal collections. Only got out maybe 3 times this year, and found nothing. sighted in my new rifle, and found a nice blank right on the ground, where many have stood, many times over the years.
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Thank you for sharing your collection and explaining so much. You are a really good teacher!
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You have an awesome collection Scott! Great video, and yes, I’ve found some very thick pottery sherds from the bottom of vessels. I’ll have to measure the thickness but I have some that might be an inch thick.
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Always fun to see a new video! Thanks!
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Just sorted through broken flake surface finds tonight!! Always enjoy your videos, this one was very informative! Cheers!!
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Thanks for the great post. In socal. I found many hammer and anvil stones, trained eye sees all, one camp had a production line of tool kit stations along a small spring seep creek as if it was in use yesterday.. My favorite is the forearm length and shaped worked pick and shovel Piece that came up from a propane pipe trench.. Black dirt is a clue. Your collection is awesome. Once from a foundation trench a hand sized chopper came up. Still razor sharp. I surmise for very large game. Happy hunting and great to learn from you.
As an aside in socal not being a maize tradition but oak acorn culture ill leave a tobacco offering. On my pueblos visits a corn chip offering.
As an aside in socal I leave a tobacco offering as here its an oak acorn tradition not maize culture. on my pueblos visits a corn chip offering suffices from my chip snack bag...I've seen the cirruti mammoth site,..max the mammoth also. One closeby tenaja spot has pic tographs on a rock that also has a princ
Princess. She has an alabaster pendant sourced from channel islands 100 + miles north. im curious as to how it came south. By land or sea? I was stuccoing a custom home on the camp pendalton marine base north boundry and the owners showed me the report full disclosure from escrow. She was studied in the 70s then re intered. I've seen cirruti Mastodon site, and diamond valley max display too. thanks again for the great videos
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Good info Scott, on the new posts frame, that white point looks Holland to me.
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Thank you for the insights! Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving as well.
This channel is addictive. Beautiful finds as always. Thanks for sharing man
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Great video Scott , good to see you again , I always look
forward to your videos
@@billcarpenter5145 I should have something out soon. Probably just gonna be show and tell though. Everything is frozen.
That's a great collection and interesting information, thank you for sharing.
My dad found a gorget in the garden and took it to the serpent mound museum and they thought it was a decorative piece.
Be interesting to hear what you have to say about them.
@@54cal54 Much Appreciated. I have a big clue to the puzzle.
Dude -total respect..been watchin your content for quite a while and here you have the home of my dreams I've been wanting for decades. My collection doesn't quite look like yours either
@@rodqueen2910 Much Appreciated
Very nice collection brother Scott! 👍😉
@@samharper4289 Much Appreciated Sam
It’s amazing how much you can learn from these artifacts. Thanks for sharing and for showing us your collection! ❤
The nutting stone riddle was solved a few years ago by a flint knapper.
Even today, antler bases work best for knapping, but the flint tears them up, and they need to be continuously dressed. A sandstone works well for this, you twist it back and forth to redress it, and it creates a divot as you do so.
After a while it gets too deep to do a good job, and you have to start a new hole.
The nut mortar never made sense to me, this makes perfect sense.
What surprises me, is the old school relic collectors that won't give up the nutting stone theory.
There was an article in the Ohio Archeologist a few years ago about this.
That seems to be the best theory, as Ive also said in previous videos, but nobody knows for certain. Most of the holes are pecked and not smooth.
I like the theory on the beveled knifes my grandpa said it's a resharpening technique thanks for sharing some of your collection with us
@@erongarrett2080 Thank you as well
Hey Scott! Great chilly Sunday video! I use modern single bevel broadheads bowhunting deer and can confirm that they do cut a spiral wound track. That being said, I believe you are 100% right about the right handed knappers bit. That split notch is crazy! What a thing to find. That’s a real one off.
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Your content is great. Keep making great videos.
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Sweet collection! 👌
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Wow what a collection incredible
I'm jealy dude is right on the river. Why not me 😭
Have a circular hand held stone with a groove about 3/4 inch in diameter going through it. Grooved as your stone . Figured it was smoothing the shaft of an atl-atl. I too havea thick piece of pottery .......about 1/2 inch thick.
I would call that a Scottsbluff since it now resides in a display table located on Scott’s bluff…🤣
Great video! 👍🏻👍🏻
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You are so amazing I love your show and your knowledge thank you for sharing patsy
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Now I'm not just envious of Scott's cool wide open dome home but even his coffee table furniture as well!! 😂 😂
@@jimc6687 Thanks Jim
Super clever stop-action!! Love it!!
Thanks so much!
I wonder if there were ancient natives who went looking for ancient artifacts sometimes and were excited over their finds, or even had their own collections they held dearly to them and even traded among other collectors?
@@TheRealTLA I’d say when they found something, it was used.
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Awesome show and tell, Clegg Man !!✌️🍀⛏️⛏️⛏️
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Hey great collection! Thanks for showing it. That rounded piece that your friend Bill gave you... could that be a natural Concretion? ...? Possibly picked up and used? Concretions are often round with a different colored piece in the middle. Just wondering. Thanks!
No, it was definitely shaped over a long time.
@cleggsadventures cool thanks!
glad i found your channel, sad im almost through all the years of content lol!
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Hoping i can find a hot spot on the Ohio like you!!
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Greetings Clegg, Merry Christmas from SW OH, and thanks for inviting us to view some of your ongoing collection! I have seen some thick pottery shards from Mississippian sites. The bottom or base of some of their water jugs with the high necks can be very thick, as well as some of the side walls of the jugs. The bottoms were tichest to prevent damage when setting them down full of water. About the only way to know for certain where the obsidian point originated requires a Lab ID of the material. It likely was traded with someone from another area or culture. It is apparent that with the use of canoes and waterways after some of the Ice Age melting, they had vast rivers and streams to traverse. For instance, one of my ancestors was the War Chief Attakullakulla. He was from the British Columbia Algonquin area. His parents were Mohawk and Iroquois adopted by the Cherokee. At the time he became a Chief he lived in the Carolina's before eventually moving to establish and help build 7 villages in and around Knoxville, TN. One way to ID your pieces can be to to document and initial them using a graphite pencil or non permanent marker. If you ever want it can be easily removed. I used to know all of mine by heart, but over the years have forgotten where a few of my larger stone tools originated. Bevels vary depending on whether it is held upright, or point down. I had a gorgeous Dovetail that was beveled with a serrated edges. This was sometimes decorative or ceremonial. A spear point would do damage enough on an Atlatl without the use of bevels to spin to do damage. Perhaps bevels had a specific use related to removing skins from meat? Transitional points exist. Whether or not your point reflects being a transitional point is debatable, but they do exist. Thanks for sharing and all the best on your new year of discoveries!
Very interesting and informative!
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Introduce us to Rocky😅
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Jokes aside, I thoroughly enjoyed this vid! I like your theory on the beveled edges. I too could never believe it was for spinning the projectile once launched.
@@Seeker-Recordings Thank you
I bet it was quite a story as to how that piece of obsidian got from Montana to West Virginia!
I wish I knew
Could the nutting stones be made for grinding up medicine? Maybe there are multiple holes because they wanted to keep medicines separated. Could they have used antlers that have since rotted away as the pestles and that’s why we don’t find many made from stone?
@@Alpvagabund I think they were a waste product from making something.
I love your house! So cool!!
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Amazing collection and display as well!
The thick pottery is actually a part or piece of the actual kiln itself..
@@KyleRodeghier it’s curved, bottom of a pot. It had tempering
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Love all of your videos! I've watched most of them and learned a lot I have a guess about the corner notch/side notch knife blade. I hunt with stone tipped arrows that I made and attached the points with real deer sinew. When lashing the point to the shaft you wrap the sinew around the notches and the shaft and then backwards across the shaft at a 4/5-degree angle and then around the shaft behind the point, then wrap back the way you came to lash the point evenly, forming an X wrapped around the notches and behind the point. What if the side notch was designed to hold tight to the shaft and the corner notch was designed to put backward tension grabbing onto the shaft so that when the sinew dried it held fast to the shaft in two different directions?
@@gobblersroostadventures1388 That could be. It was made special like that for a purpose
@@cleggsadventures Yes, the maker definitely had a purpose, I think it might have something to do with the sinew wrapping.
Very cool pieces with unique engineering. Theory on the beveling: in aviation, flap extension and trim on the wings help to maintain straight and level flight. Perhaps the projectile point engineering incorporates this as well. Straight and level flight would increase speed, distance and precision when pursuing agile game.
Listened to you again... not likely a physics of flight explanation. Interesting. Went down a new rabbit hole, thank you! HuntPrimative video from a few years ago helped inform me too. Thank you for enriching us with your adventures and knowledge!
It has been a while since I saw a video of yours. Thank you for answering my comment that it was a right hand. However, I'm still confused. I will reply back when I find that video. Happy Holidays from Western PA.
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Great stuff man thanks for that❤
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I love your channel because I’ve learned so much and you always take the time to explain everything!
Even though I’ve never gone hunting for artifacts and have none, I love learning about them!
Thanks for all you do!👍🏼😊❤️
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Great collection! What did you do with that bow fragment that you found in that old fire pit a while back?
My friend has it. It’s in bad condition
I agree with your take on the dual notched point. It looks and seems to be intentionally done.
Great video Clegg!
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Could the little round stones have been for drilling holes in wood or other stone? Maybe they could be mounted in the end of a stick and spun with a bow for drilling?
You have some fascinating stuff. I'd love to find a place to hunt artifacts around Virginia. I live by the Chesapeake Bay and there's a lot of history here.
Also I used to live in Costa Rica. I found pottery shards all over that country, from up north in the mountains by a live volcano (Arenál) down to the southern Pacific beaches down by Panama. There might be old stone tools too but I didn't notice any.
@@comfortablynumb9342 I think that stone was a preferred hammering stone tool.
Beautiful collection of artifacts.
Always neat to find stone age tools and weaponry, although I haven't found anything myself, watching channels like yours is highly educational. Even when you're unsure and ask for viewers opinions, I can appreciate that.
Awesome video!
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We speculate like there's no tomorrow but we're speculating on yesterday stuff and it goes back endlessly. An endless source of speculation.
Wow. Thank you
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Thanks for the info !!!
You're the man.....way to go....Excellent.....You would of made a good indian....would of had many squaws.......haha..... big chief Clegg..!!!!
@@stevegaines-vq3bd hahaha👍
That tip with the side and corner divots is really interesting. Have you considered hafting some of your cool finds? Tandy leather sells synthetic " sinew".
You pointed out a less ancient tip that didn't have the bottom ground dull, so as not to split the haft. Older points for spears were dulled ,
I don't understand Stopping a process that protected the integrity and delivered a better impact.
I found a large axe head in West Texas. A man in East Texas bought it. He told me there Is a guy at Texas A &M who has studied the techniques of hafting and he was hoping to get him to do that for him. By Large I mean it was around 6" long, 4" wide, 1.5 " thick. Nicely worked, but without the obvious 3/4" radiused relief your axe heads show. Maybe what I found was more of a big scraper or a spear point for big critters.
ID really like to see that point, with the very different bottom corner work, hafted.
IDK what the drills were being built to drill. I have Zero experience with solving the day to day problems the people of the past were working to solve, but I Think a sharpened antler would make a pretty good awl.
Thanks for taking us with you on your adventures.
I really appreciate your willingness to say
I don't Know
And follow with your best guess.
ID like to see some tips hatred and used.
What a Cool home,
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@@dadparker3569 Much appreciated. This may explain it a little better. I’m assuming the dart shafts got smaller and lighter, to where they didn’t need to grind it. Improvements in technology.
Why Would a Stone Age Person Make This Weapon Dull?
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Thank you! Very cool info!
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Wow very cool house
That odd point was probably a skinning knife other edge side for removing bones
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Very nice looking piece and. Finds. I. Wish. I. Could. Walk. I. Would love to. Have. A. Real. Arrowhead
@@lancetaylor866 get me your address Lance
Like the table and the house!😊
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Your two different notch point is awesome. I got a couple odd ball things that people don’t think it is what it is, but I know what it is, just like you know those two notches weren’t a mistake. Finding the odd ball stuff is the best to me, someone sat down thousands of years ago and said you know what? I think I’m going to make something different or especially cool, and they had no idea people like me and you would find it and love it
I know exactly what you mean, it's the thrill of the hunt.
Someone was teaching his son to make a knife with both a side and corner notch. That’s a teaching aide.
Could be.
Nice collection man.
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Your point about beveled edges and wear was interesting. Do you have an idea why a knapper would choose a biface edge over a one sided beveled edge? If it wears faster what is the advantage? Could it be that the knapper of the biface edge just hasn't thought things through?
I’m sure they had specific ways they were both beneficial
Interesting artifacts
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Just a thought. The point with two different notches. Maybe the point was found by another knapper and it could have been years apart and he simply notched with his technique. I've only been knapping for two years now, and I make only one style of point. I am just not good enough at it to make any other type that turns out half way decent. I found a Hematite piece years ago about the size of those cones you have and I was told they would wrap them in rawhide and attach them to a stick handle and were used as a war club. I have only found one it was a perfect ball that was pecked not smooth like your cones.
Obsidian from Yellowstone would be the banded peak deposit. If you hold that point up to the light, is it banded mean seethrough lines and dark bands? If not, then it could be from the glass butte complex in Oregon or the rainbow mahogany and Lassen Creek varieties from California. Love your house by the way. It's such a cool design
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I use to do the same thing here in Mississippi. I would remove lesser stones.🤣👍🤩
I agree with most all of your Theories on uses, That corner notcher is a puzzlement though.
Yeah, I’ve never seen anything like that
Was out on a couple hundred acre bush property that I owned north end of the Northern Territory Oz for some 13 yrs & found a few old points & tools there . . the site of my camp eventual on edge of a sandstone escarpment was a reduction floor for quartz spear points from the actual quarry site as in a formation a conglomerate of sandstone with quartz nodules embedded within it very close by , that was exposed at the edge of the plateau that was main body of the block . . when struck with each other these quartz nodules found around eroded out of the matrix fractured conchoidal as in flakes like razor blade . . like obsidian native glass , found a quartz knife a fair way down stuck in side of a monsoon burst eroded channel on my cleared powerline track that had been native bush before , read the interesting slim publication by anthropologists Peter Hiscock & Scott Mitchell held in the Charles Darwin university library about indigenous knapping in north Oz & timelines . . never talked about those old tool finds before & could who knows invite further investigation , there was already aboriginal 'sacred sites' on property & did't at time want anymore bother in that regard
Sounds like you’ve got a great place for finding artifacts
Hey Clegg...I love the oddball stuff. I noticed that the side notched/corner notched point has a broken base corner on the side notched side...I've found dozens of side notched with the same base damage. I theorized the base was intentionally fractured because it was in the way as the blade was resharpened. And beveling? Bingo...conservation of material
@@jonathanfloming1045 It doesn’t look damaged. I can’t see where
@@cleggsadventures at 9:55 it looks like the base is extremely squared off...but then I'm not holding it 😉 At any rate...something to look for in the future...I often asked myself...what are the odds of a disc hitting just the base corner on so many points? Unlikely.
The rubbed hematite, ive found very similar here in southwest New Mexico. What we're the used for?
Paint and tools
If you will take a look at a pump drill, you might conclude that nutting stones with a smooth indention May have been used on the top of the pump drill as a weight to hold the stick in
Place while making fires.
Been looking in bradford county pa since the 60s have lots of arrowheads and pottery some musket balls
I really like your table. I might have to build one for my artifacts and fossils. I have a good collection but no good way to show them
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My friend found a few spear points 11 and 13 inches long in Summerville.
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That tick pottery, i think might be mig mac? Was thinking it looked odd from Oak Island
I live in OH and I have 2 obsidian arrowheads; someone told me they were fake but they could have been made with "imported" obsidian from Wyoming or elsewhere out west, so I believe they are authentic.
Scott, how did you find the answer to some of the mystery pieces? Specifically, I'm thinking of that ivory pen handle. Do you have a museum resource or friend that helped I.D.?
From a few different commenters. So I searched for quill pen holder.
Those bevels come from stone reduction. Those pieces show up during stone reduction occasionally. The bevel reduces the energy to get the point. Seriously it comes down to use of simplicity of material use.
Between 2005 - 2016, there were 7 obsi artifacts found in Tennessee and Alabama. They were sent to a laboratory for testing. I live in Middle Tennessee.
Unusual point at 6:05 -- early prototype for the original Swiss Army Knife. Little bit of everything you might need. 😊
Cool info ✌️
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