I wouldn't have been able to quit and go home. The Civil War relics, their good and all but Native American that's where it's at. So rare now to find such places as this. Thank you for taking us along with you, I'd rather do this than eat when I'm hungry!
I agree with you that these items are exactly as you've said-precious pieces of history but there's a great deal to be envious of-you're having the thrill of finding them-being the first human to see and touch these beautiful objects in thousands of years. As I noted, I've collected artifacts for over 60 years and everything I've found is framed and is on my wall. Since my children and grand children really don't seem to have an interest in them, I'll find a reputable museum to donate them to. I consider my collecting as salvaging native works of art from being destroyed, as most of them would have been by now since roads have been built where much of it came from and
take me with you please.. i will even wear a blind fold and a bag over my head... lol awesome finds.. i am in northern maine and look all the time when out fishing the streams............. thank you for another great video with some excellent finds...
Those are great. Just FYI, those points will chip very easily when banged around with other stones. Might want to be a little bit gentle when sifting, transporting to keep from breaking/chipping a fantastic point. I wrap mine in a small piece of toilet paper and put them in a Tupperware container when I leave a site to keep that from happening. Great Adventure!
It's amazing that sometimes when you find a knife blade or spear or arrow point, how, after thousands of years, they can still cut the beejeebers out of you! When I built my house in the forest, near a creek, when we first had the underbrush on our acreage cleared with a bulldozer, I could sometimes find 5 - 10 artifacts for every hour I searched. Eventually, they became harder and harder to find. And natural caches in creeks are an awesome place to find stuff! To think the last person to touch such an item was an ancient Indian - well, it still gives me a huge chill!
Mr. Chigg... You mentioned that there could be a good amount of artifacts a bit deeper in the mud. Being located in the northeast, you should have access to a clam rake. That could make it easier to scrape deeper into the mud and find whatever may be waiting for The Chigg to release from their imprisonment. You are always coming up with different tools and gadgets to enhance your explorations, perhaps this will help too.
Good evening, another interesting and exciting day you have had looking for those beautiful artifacts, at least you have had a sunny windy day, I have had a wet windy day on island of wight, I wonder how easy would it be to make those arrow heads, I'll probably get to finish making a head, then snap it, enjoyed very much stay safe
Build a shallow square box and on the bottom lay a piece of plexiglass and seal it with calking. Makes it easy to view what is on the river or stream bottom. I use to hunt Indian arrowheads with my grandmother all the time and that is what we used.
I have a pile of old stone tools from creekbed finds in southeast Kansas. It's not once in a lifetime. Native Americans left a lot of crap behind when they had to pack up and move all the time to follow the game they hunted.
Big salute to you Is there an expert among you in this field because I want to communicate with him to advise me on some of the pieces that I have and I think that they are more than 200 million years old 
@@younesaida1405 how can you possibly date anything to over 200 million years old? What's the difference in appearance to something that's 1 million years old compared to something that 20 million?
@@MEAT_CANNON same, from the upper peninsula of Michigan. They are literally everywhere in some places here, with a wide range of years going back very very early with the large stone tools.
Aquachigger, Thank you very much for taking us along with you and sharing your fascinating finds with all of us. I look at your stone finds and such and daydream about life back when those tools were made. I find all of your videos extremely interesting. Once again thank you very much for bringing us along on your adventures.
Can you just imagine jumping back in time to when they were camping or even living there along that stretch of river. Just watching those Indians living there everyday life making tools and arrow heads. Everytime I see an arrow head it makes wonder what that person was thinking while sitting there chipping that rock down to be a tool so that they could get food for their people. I love this kind of stuff.
Chigg, me and the Ms sift for sharks teeth here in Southern Virginia. Works better for us if you don't fill it up. One or two shovel full at a time. Leave it in sifter until you sort it all. Saw a scrapper and a piece of pottery you missed. Slow down some. Great video and good spot.
I watch your videos all the time, enjoy them so much. I have listened to my dad and his brothers talk about the things they once found everywhere on their farm and played with them until they eventually had no idea what they done with artifacts that would have made your jaws drop! Makes me sort of sick to my stomach!!! Tenn was Cherokee hunting grounds, and a lot of camping sits where we live. But the things he described was way older than Cherokee relics. He spoke and described large spear like points, several inches long, chiseled out of rock. I remember drawing once when I was in high school what he described to me along with other relics they played with. All is still there…. somewhere, if they didn’t destroy them!! I had bags of arrow heads as a young girl. When my dad plowed the fields in the spring, I would follow the tractor and pick up the arrow heads I would find. Wish I still had them!!! No one I have ever been around has ever had an interest in anything like this. So Thankyou and others that I get to go along with you, in spirit, on your adventures!!!! Hey, do you ever lose your finds just throwing them on the banks like you do??? 🤔😁😁😁 God bless and bless you with many more great finds!!! ( But don’t lose them!!!)
Wow chigg, you really found an awesome native site/camp. And an old one. Some of those points looked to be archaic in nature. 5-10,000 thousand years old. There could have been an Indian camp there at one time as well. I did see some hematite rocks in your video. That were red in color. An they looked to be flat on the sides from where the would rub them down (facets) to a powder to make there face paint or dyes /colors for what ever they were putting it on or making something colorful. Congrats on all your finds so far. An that's just the beginning. I've came across sites like this before. Your going to find lots of artifacts/pottery. Especially when you start getting down in the clay/dirt layers in the water. A shovel an a sifter an then its game on. I just take my shovel an start going down about 2-3 inches kind of like skimming the layers of clay/dirt/sedament in the water. At about a foot from the bank, in the water, working back towards the bank. I'm sure you probably already know this. Just throwing it out there. I find lots of artifacts/points with this technique. Once again congrats on your finds, can't wait to see what all you find when you go back. So far the points you have found are amazing. Awesome video.Good luck on your next hunt. As always safe and happy hunting/ digging/sifting. 😁👍👍
There were Indian camps anywhere there was a source of fresh water herp de der. Y'all think too hard. Natives were a lot more numerous before the white man came with all their diseases.
@@donnakawana ice age era natives are so far removed from modern tribes. This would be like demanding Corded Ware pottery be returned to modern Central European states
*Some of them look Paleolithic or more than 10,000 years old. For you to find that many that quickly Natives/Indigenous likely camped there for hundreds if not thousands of years. They may have been shooting fish with arrowheads also.*
Yay I was hoping for a new video from you . I just caught up on the few I missed earlier and ran out of them . Thanks now I have another one to watch 😊
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I have a tomahawk and a bigger hammer head plus many complete points. Have a couple spear heads. I also have some grinding tools. Had them for about 35 years now. I wonder what they are worth once in awhile. Some of my arrow heads are from Custers battlefield when it wasn’t a park yet.
That is an unbelievable spot. Not to be critical, but you’re definitely missing stuff. I kept worrying that you were gonna cover up your finds too. That big one is definitely a big blade. Most “points” are actually knives. I’d bet there’ll be an axe or Celt there eventually.
At 21:20 it looks like you placed your hand on a worked piece, a scraper maybe? Both sides were worked to an edge it looks like to me, but you moved it to the right and up. Many people don't realize these items are thousands of years old, tens of thousands. Hot spot for sure, nice find. Be well.
A tip for sandy banks. A gas powered leaf blower. Blow the sand away to find stuff. Take a garden rake and gently drag it across the sand to help free things up then blow over it. Also, being on a river you should slow down on your sifting and look at larger stones closer. They could be plummets or other things. There is also a possibility to find bone fish hooks but you can miss that stuff sorting through so quick.
Well my experience with knapping flint I was taught to use a palm sized oval stone smother the better as the hammer and my knee with rawhide over it as the anvil .. so those round smasher you called I would use as a knapping hammer... I like your channel I never had anyone who would do this type of adventures with me as I got older all my friends got lazy and I still have the child like adventure bug ..
As kids me and my best friend and his dad used to walk the banks of the pend orielle river and find old arrow heads all the time. I know down south they are much more plentiful. I had a buddy from Arkansas who had a massive collection! Was amazing! Makes me want to look again. Thanks .
I've been collecting Native artifacts most of my 73 years and must say I'm very envious of the honey hole you've found. Some of those points appear to be paleo & possibly over 10,000 years old. If you haven't already done so, I might suggest you acquire a copy of the Overstreet Guide to Indian Arrowhead Identification book. It'll help you ID what you've found. That book will also give you an idea of what the monetary value is of what you're finding & with that in mind, I might also suggest (as others have) that you remove the larger rocks from your sifter before you shake it. The first time you break one of those extremely rare, beautiful paleo points rolling it around with a bunch of big rocks and changing the value of it from a few thousand dollars to a few hundred, you're going to cry alligator tears (so will the rest of us if you video it). They are extremely fragile. Thanks for sharing-the video causes me to salivate all over my keyboard though. You're a lucky guy!
Don't be envious. There's nothing to be envious of. These are precious pieces of history of a people no longer here, not some treasure for some greedy person to exploit. They're sacred. They're cool to find and collect, but anyone trying to profit from finding artifacts is the lowest form of life on this planet. Putting a price tag on them is extremely wrong. I have had offers for my collection but I sourly refused every offer because I know it wouldn't be right. They don't belong in the hands of greedy collectors who can't appreciate the historical value of my finds.
@@MEAT_CANNON You are absolutely right, but on the other hand maybe realizing the monetary value first the artifact would be better cared for and may peak an interest to learn more. Which just may lead that person to feel as you do. But having not known the value they would be more careless and ignorant of the true value of the artifact. I commend you on your viewpoint unfortunately not all think this way. The poster who you replied too had an excellent suggestion also. Not only does Overstreet have monetary values but most importantly information about age, location, and time period and physical characteristics that are important on the age. Much can be learned. I just wanted to point out that side. Happy hunting!
Yeah i can't stand watching this dude banging killer old points around and just tossing them in a pile, I'd spend days slowly picking through that area careful not to break anything. Most good artifact spots in my area get trampled by hundreds of meth heads who pick up every flake thinking they've found an arrowhead, those of us who have hunted for decades cant even get out and find anything more than footprints these days.
My favorite part of creeks is when I see something and end of reaching down at least 3 times because of refraction only to discover it's a damn leaf, lol. Glad you had some nice pickings, knife is a beauty.
"I don't know if it would be a Sticky, a Pokey or a Cutter thing." ....I vote All the above! You have to be the most entertaining guy that ever treasure hunted! Can't wait for the next episode. Thanks
I Loved the video I've been hunting Native American artifacts years, I like your channel I've found a few round balls from North Alabama I heard of a couple battles close by and actually know a guy who found a swordsman buckle while we was hunting arrowheads. Great channel.
Incredible spot you found!! I've been artifact searching for 20 years now and I can confidently say you have an absolutely crazy good spot! Note: I'm from central TX
Duuuude man, that's my kinda vid. Looks like some really old blades, thought 1 or 2 were real old. Gotta lookem up though. Hope ya gotta a holland or scottsbluff n there. But you will find out👍. If scottsbluff, very valuable, as are holland's n humboldt. Don't know where your at, but gonna be good the rest of your life🤫. Appreciate ya, fine hunt and site. Regardless of types, great saved brother 👊🧡🔥
WOW! Definitely a fantastic day artifact hunting!! The Artifact Gods are with you Sir!! You just might need another channel if you keep this up!! Just a bit of friendly advice from one who learned the hard way! Take it easy on the sifter. Those little ears and tips will snap off..... It looks like the base to the quarts drill was in the sifter....
My family and I hunted Indian artifacts for 40 years. I'm screaming at my phone as I'm watching you shuffling through those "rocks"!!! Reread your artifact books for better identification. You're missing several items while focused on just arrow heads. Plummets, discoildal's, banner stones, etc. are potentially being hurriedly discarded. Awesome discovery BTW
@@aquachigger That square stone was a scraper you tossed it . when you go back check it out . First tub of rocks you sifted. I have collected for 40 years here in Florida.
Hi Chigg! That was another nice artifact trip. You came up with some nice pieces. You found a good productive spot with even more potential with the tools you mentioned. Have a good day!
When I ran a 5” suction dredge looking for gold on the Ettowah river, I would occasionally find an arrow head in the box. That would be a great system to set up there but only running the sucked up material across a large classification screen.
Your vids are always interesting to watch. My back could not stand all that bending over to pick things up, but I can certainly sit in my easy chair and watch you find artifacts from the past.
Go to 11:03 on the video. Middle of the screen in the top half looks like a base sticking out and possibly a tip below it then over to the far right looks to be a notched corner sticking out.
I absolutely love ur videos. Makes me want to go out there and look for history. U do a perfect balance of treasure hunting history hunting and talking and explaining. Seriously. A lot of other peoples videos usually do to much of one thing and it ruins the videos for me. Not to bad mouth them don’t have anything against anyone. Just with me your balance works perfect. And I’m positive I’m not the only one who thinks this based on ur numbers LOL wish more people did it like this because I enjoy watching these types of videos. I have to look up your tv show. Haven’t seen it but sure I would love it. If u ever need someone to write a letter for u with everything going on let me know would be happy to!
One of my favorite videos. Some of those looked like incomplete arrowheads. With all the flakes there maybe they were producing the arrowheads in that area. Thanks.
Cool video thanks for sharing. Hey when you go back you need to go through that pile of rocks that you found the drill in .the drill was broken on the bottom and you picked it up and threw it back in the pile. You probably broke it sifting.
that was awesome,we dont find arrow heads like this in OZ , this site needs to be documented with care,would love to know more about the tribe who camped there,what a great find chigg good luck.
Considering the sheer density, this has to be a 'factory' spot. They'd gather around the fire, do their thing and chip away at things. One thing that makes me think this might be the case is the fact that there's a lot of fresh cuts. Usually, if you find a big spot like this, they're worn out, broken, and you're in a trash pit (or the equivalent). These might've even been lesson chips.
i think you hit the nail on the head. i mentioned on the last video that it looked like this is the actual spot where the activity happened and not just a low pressure area where the artifacts settled. they probably utilized the water clarity and threw down on top of the fish resulting in all those broken points left in situ. a lot out deeper probably went downstream to find bedrock cracks but that little turn with all the mud and silt caught and held a lot of it. i was going to ask you if you saw any rock piles that looked human made nearby to confirm it.
It's not often you find a settled area so close to the river but with amount of artifacts and the shifting banks I'd say you found a large village! Great job Beau!👍
Not sure how I missed this one? I really enjoyed seeing all the spear heads, arrowheads, etc. It would be so thrilling for me to find just 1 of those in my lifetime! Wow!
If "Time Team" had an American Series: This would be such a great location to work with whichever Tribe who would have originated in the area to do a 3 day dig to explain what the importance of this site is.
Mr. Chigg you have the equivalent of gold fever in the world of archeology. Slow down and remember that flint is like glass and will chip and break easily.
Chig at 21:19 It looked like the edge of a scraper you then grabbed it with other rocks and tossed them I believe.keep em coming.Thank You Jake Bissel
I thought I seen it too .
I about puked when he slammed it against the other rocks in the sifter, dude need to chill as he probably breaks more than he finds.
Also at 9:15 far tip top right side of the pile was an arrowhead, I’m pretty sure I seen it while he was sifting then he dumped it 😬
I saw it, too, and it definitely looked like it had an edge to it. Decent size, too!
I wouldn't have been able to quit and go home. The Civil War relics, their good and all but Native American that's where it's at. So rare now to find such places as this. Thank you for taking us along with you, I'd rather do this than eat when I'm hungry!
Lol I’m like that on good detecting sites I’m there until dark
@J 😂
Hey I saw its ten years since the silver coin cache find, how about a return to that spot video to see if any are left?
Thats the video that got me hooked on the chig!
I asked him that a couple of times. You know there are more coins . It would be a great video.
He scoured that place
I’ve not seen that video I’ll have to back track and look as I’m a keen detectorist
@@ONAPAL3HORS3986 Same!
I agree with you that these items are exactly as you've said-precious pieces of history but there's a great deal to be envious of-you're having the thrill of finding them-being the first human to see and touch these beautiful objects in thousands of years. As I noted, I've collected artifacts for over 60 years and everything I've found is framed and is on my wall. Since my children and grand children really don't seem to have an interest in them, I'll find a reputable museum to donate them to. I consider my collecting as salvaging native works of art from being destroyed, as most of them would have been by now since roads have been built where much of it came from and
Hey, still have them?
Chig slow down and stop being so rough, remember how you savor the idea of the man who dropped the bullet, do that 😁
Cringing every single load
He can do as he pleases. How about you shove it up yours
It’s his video.
take me with you please.. i will even wear a blind fold and a bag over my head... lol awesome finds.. i am in northern maine and look all the time when out fishing the streams............. thank you for another great video with some excellent finds...
Those are great. Just FYI, those points will chip very easily when banged around with other stones. Might want to be a little bit gentle when sifting, transporting to keep from breaking/chipping a fantastic point. I wrap mine in a small piece of toilet paper and put them in a Tupperware container when I leave a site to keep that from happening. Great Adventure!
I was screaming at the screen be gentle Beau! You said it so much better than I.
Me too😂😂😂
It's amazing that sometimes when you find a knife blade or spear or arrow point, how, after thousands of years, they can still cut the beejeebers out of you! When I built my house in the forest, near a creek, when we first had the underbrush on our acreage cleared with a bulldozer, I could sometimes find 5 - 10 artifacts for every hour I searched. Eventually, they became harder and harder to find. And natural caches in creeks are an awesome place to find stuff! To think the last person to touch such an item was an ancient Indian - well, it still gives me a huge chill!
One of your best videos. Thank you sir!
Mr. Chigg... You mentioned that there could be a good amount of artifacts a bit deeper in the mud. Being located in the northeast, you should have access to a clam rake. That could make it easier to scrape deeper into the mud and find whatever may be waiting for The Chigg to release from their imprisonment. You are always coming up with different tools and gadgets to enhance your explorations, perhaps this will help too.
That’s exactly what we use and we are getting them with nyc skyline in the back round 😉
Way Awesome those were some amazing finds 👍👍👍
Not only cool videos but a badass theme song ta boot.
Cool! Some of those artifacts look even newer than the Hunley in the background! The Hunley is one strange looking craft!
I love to go arrowhead hunting, mainly alibates flint here in the Texas panhandle.
Good evening, another interesting and exciting day you have had looking for those beautiful artifacts, at least you have had a sunny windy day, I have had a wet windy day on island of wight, I wonder how easy would it be to make those arrow heads, I'll probably get to finish making a head, then snap it, enjoyed very much stay safe
Kurt from Hoover Boys has a sifter like the one u used. FYI a water bottle fits in the side handle perfect...good hunt today, thanks
Build a shallow square box and on the bottom lay a piece of plexiglass and seal it with calking. Makes it easy to view what is on the river or stream bottom. I use to hunt Indian arrowheads with my grandmother all the time and that is what we used.
I cant believe you found such a killer artifact spot, thats once in a lifetime stuff.
I have a pile of old stone tools from creekbed finds in southeast Kansas. It's not once in a lifetime. Native Americans left a lot of crap behind when they had to pack up and move all the time to follow the game they hunted.
Big salute to you Is there an expert among you in this field because I want to communicate with him to advise me on some of the pieces that I have and I think that they are more than 200 million years old

@@younesaida1405 how can you possibly date anything to over 200 million years old? What's the difference in appearance to something that's 1 million years old compared to something that 20 million?
He is about a ding dong
@@MEAT_CANNON same, from the upper peninsula of Michigan. They are literally everywhere in some places here, with a wide range of years going back very very early with the large stone tools.
Awesome seive and definitely artifacts, congratulations on finding such a great place. God Bless, (Glen).
You really got a good spot there. Beautiful old stuff.
Aquachigger, Thank you very much for taking us along with you and sharing your fascinating finds with all of us. I look at your stone finds and such and daydream about life back when those tools were made. I find all of your videos extremely interesting. Once again thank you very much for bringing us along on your adventures.
Love that you get excited about find the stone treasures.
Can you just imagine jumping back in time to when they were camping or even living there along that stretch of river. Just watching those Indians living there everyday life making tools and arrow heads. Everytime I see an arrow head it makes wonder what that person was thinking while sitting there chipping that rock down to be a tool so that they could get food for their people. I love this kind of stuff.
Thanx Chigg for another great AQUACHIGGER ADVENTURE
Chigg, me and the Ms sift for sharks teeth here in Southern Virginia. Works better for us if you don't fill it up. One or two shovel full at a time. Leave it in sifter until you sort it all. Saw a scrapper and a piece of pottery you missed. Slow down some. Great video and good spot.
Beau, watch some of our creek hunting videos. You may get some ideas that will help you on that site.
I watch your videos all the time, enjoy them so much. I have listened to my dad and his brothers talk about the things they once found everywhere on their farm and played with them until they eventually had no idea what they done with artifacts that would have made your jaws drop! Makes me sort of sick to my stomach!!! Tenn was Cherokee hunting grounds, and a lot of camping sits where we live. But the things he described was way older than Cherokee relics. He spoke and described large spear like points, several inches long, chiseled out of rock. I remember drawing once when I was in high school what he described to me along with other relics they played with. All is still there…. somewhere, if they didn’t destroy them!! I had bags of arrow heads as a young girl. When my dad plowed the fields in the spring, I would follow the tractor and pick up the arrow heads I would find. Wish I still had them!!! No one I have ever been around has ever had an interest in anything like this. So Thankyou and others that I get to go along with you, in spirit, on your adventures!!!! Hey, do you ever lose your finds just throwing them on the banks like you do??? 🤔😁😁😁 God bless and bless you with many more great finds!!! ( But don’t lose them!!!)
Yah buddy, a most eggcellent adventure. Thanks Chigg for bringing us along.
Keep on peoples...
Wow chigg, you really found an awesome native site/camp. And an old one. Some of those points looked to be archaic in nature. 5-10,000 thousand years old. There could have been an Indian camp there at one time as well. I did see some hematite rocks in your video. That were red in color. An they looked to be flat on the sides from where the would rub them down (facets) to a powder to make there face paint or dyes /colors for what ever they were putting it on or making something colorful. Congrats on all your finds so far. An that's just the beginning. I've came across sites like this before. Your going to find lots of artifacts/pottery. Especially when you start getting down in the clay/dirt layers in the water. A shovel an a sifter an then its game on. I just take my shovel an start going down about 2-3 inches kind of like skimming the layers of clay/dirt/sedament in the water. At about a foot from the bank, in the water, working back towards the bank. I'm sure you probably already know this. Just throwing it out there. I find lots of artifacts/points with this technique. Once again congrats on your finds, can't wait to see what all you find when you go back. So far the points you have found are amazing. Awesome video.Good luck on your next hunt. As always safe and happy hunting/ digging/sifting. 😁👍👍
There were Indian camps anywhere there was a source of fresh water herp de der. Y'all think too hard. Natives were a lot more numerous before the white man came with all their diseases.
Please tell me you notified the indigenous ppl in that area... Please we have lost so much of our history all ready!! ✌🏼💗😊❣️
@@MEAT_CANNON you mean before the White man came and conquered the indians
@@donnakawana ice age era natives are so far removed from modern tribes. This would be like demanding Corded Ware pottery be returned to modern Central European states
*Some of them look Paleolithic or more than 10,000 years old. For you to find that many that quickly Natives/Indigenous likely camped there for hundreds if not thousands of years. They may have been shooting fish with arrowheads also.*
Yay I was hoping for a new video from you . I just caught up on the few I missed earlier and ran out of them . Thanks now I have another one to watch 😊
I told you so! Congratulations! That is an awesome site! We do this all the time and rarely do we come across a site so rich.
You have found some great stuff!!
Really enjoyed this. Woodland site. want to see you come back to this.
Amazing finds! Your keen intuition and personal training have led you to your success. I love to watch you find them...What a great adventure!
@@bhasty1 No, but maybe you should. You might learn something.
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21:19 that looks like a skinning tool, right below your index finger
I have a tomahawk and a bigger hammer head plus many complete points. Have a couple spear heads. I also have some grinding tools. Had them for about 35 years now. I wonder what they are worth once in awhile. Some of my arrow heads are from Custers battlefield when it wasn’t a park yet.
I wish you did a tour. I want to find a arrowhead just once. To say I found it I put on a frame. I’m in Maryland I think you’re in that area ???
That is an unbelievable spot. Not to be critical, but you’re definitely missing stuff. I kept worrying that you were gonna cover up your finds too. That big one is definitely a big blade. Most “points” are actually knives. I’d bet there’ll be an axe or Celt there eventually.
Lots of pottery pieces also. Great finds. Hopefully you get most of it
They will probably uncover in time and the place can be scavenged again.
Yeah he's gonna break a few lmao
Come onn, leave some for the next explorer.
@@joegreen1136 the arrowheads that broke deer and human ribs alike? Native americans were a lot of things, but dumb was not one of them.
excellent video Beau. great little sifter. thanks for the fun time with you. God bless you all.
I’m loving the sifting! This is a really cool for a change of pace ♥️
At 21:20 it looks like you placed your hand on a worked piece, a scraper maybe? Both sides were worked to an edge it looks like to me, but you moved it to the right and up. Many people don't realize these items are thousands of years old, tens of thousands. Hot spot for sure, nice find. Be well.
I noticed that too.
Just commented the same thing lol
My eyes are green with envy... I have a few local Native American artifacts. Accidentally left my Idaho arrow heads in Idaho.
You found a great spot for artifacts chig, keep going back!👍
A tip for sandy banks. A gas powered leaf blower. Blow the sand away to find stuff. Take a garden rake and gently drag it across the sand to help free things up then blow over it. Also, being on a river you should slow down on your sifting and look at larger stones closer. They could be plummets or other things. There is also a possibility to find bone fish hooks but you can miss that stuff sorting through so quick.
As much as I love relics. Native stone is the tops ! Awesome finds !
Well my experience with knapping flint I was taught to use a palm sized oval stone smother the better as the hammer and my knee with rawhide over it as the anvil .. so those round smasher you called I would use as a knapping hammer... I like your channel I never had anyone who would do this type of adventures with me as I got older all my friends got lazy and I still have the child like adventure bug ..
Thanks. Don't let it flee.
@@aquachigger haha 😄flea
Dang Chigg, you’re killing it on this spot! Nice points. 👍
As kids me and my best friend and his dad used to walk the banks of the pend orielle river and find old arrow heads all the time. I know down south they are much more plentiful. I had a buddy from Arkansas who had a massive collection! Was amazing! Makes me want to look again. Thanks .
I've been collecting Native artifacts most of my 73 years and must say I'm very envious of the honey hole you've found. Some of those points appear to be paleo & possibly over 10,000 years old. If you haven't already done so, I might suggest you acquire a copy of the Overstreet Guide to Indian Arrowhead Identification book. It'll help you ID what you've found. That book will also give you an idea of what the monetary value is of what you're finding & with that in mind, I might also suggest (as others have) that you remove the larger rocks from your sifter before you shake it. The first time you break one of those extremely rare, beautiful paleo points rolling it around with a bunch of big rocks and changing the value of it from a few thousand dollars to a few hundred, you're going to cry alligator tears (so will the rest of us if you video it). They are extremely fragile. Thanks for sharing-the video causes me to salivate all over my keyboard though. You're a lucky guy!
Don't be envious. There's nothing to be envious of. These are precious pieces of history of a people no longer here, not some treasure for some greedy person to exploit. They're sacred. They're cool to find and collect, but anyone trying to profit from finding artifacts is the lowest form of life on this planet. Putting a price tag on them is extremely wrong. I have had offers for my collection but I sourly refused every offer because I know it wouldn't be right. They don't belong in the hands of greedy collectors who can't appreciate the historical value of my finds.
That was my first thought, "you're gonna BREAK them!" I'm so jealous.
@@MEAT_CANNON You are absolutely right, but on the other hand maybe realizing the monetary value first the artifact would be better cared for and may peak an interest to learn more. Which just may lead that person to feel as you do. But having not known the value they would be more careless and ignorant of the true value of the artifact. I commend you on your viewpoint unfortunately not all think this way. The poster who you replied too had an excellent suggestion also. Not only does Overstreet have monetary values but most importantly information about age, location, and time period and physical characteristics that are important on the age. Much can be learned. I just wanted to point out that side. Happy hunting!
Yeah i can't stand watching this dude banging killer old points around and just tossing them in a pile, I'd spend days slowly picking through that area careful not to break anything. Most good artifact spots in my area get trampled by hundreds of meth heads who pick up every flake thinking they've found an arrowhead, those of us who have hunted for decades cant even get out and find anything more than footprints these days.
Thanks for the great idea to look for arrow heads, if I ever get to go looking. 😻
These videos are an absolute treat. Love seeing all those beautiful points come out of the mud and rocks.
My favorite part of creeks is when I see something and end of reaching down at least 3 times because of refraction only to discover it's a damn leaf, lol. Glad you had some nice pickings, knife is a beauty.
"I don't know if it would be a Sticky, a Pokey or a Cutter thing." ....I vote All the above! You have to be the most entertaining guy that ever treasure hunted!
Can't wait for the next episode. Thanks
Some good finds, seems like a lot in one area. But then consider 100’s years of people hunting, traveling and living in the area
All those finds it definitely looks like you stumbled on an old camp. Some truly beautiful points that can now be preserved.
That’s what I was thinking a settlement of some sort
I Loved the video I've been hunting Native American artifacts years, I like your channel I've found a few round balls from North Alabama I heard of a couple battles close by and actually know a guy who found a swordsman buckle while we was hunting arrowheads. Great channel.
Wow you really came across something more than amazing beyond happy for you
Thank you so much!
Incredible spot you found!! I've been artifact searching for 20 years now and I can confidently say you have an absolutely crazy good spot! Note: I'm from central TX
@Justine right?? Too many tools to count and yet over all very few actual points, many preforms tll
I’m in central Texas as well and never found so much in one spot
Wow! Neat finds, Chigg! What an awesome spot that is. And it’s beautiful-living in dusty, deserty Southern California, I’m jealous. It looks like fun.
That is definitely an awesome site Chigg. So many amazing artifacts. Can't wait to see what else you find there. Happy hunting and be well
Duuuude man, that's my kinda vid. Looks like some really old blades, thought 1 or 2 were real old. Gotta lookem up though. Hope ya gotta a holland or scottsbluff n there. But you will find out👍. If scottsbluff, very valuable, as are holland's n humboldt. Don't know where your at, but gonna be good the rest of your life🤫. Appreciate ya, fine hunt and site. Regardless of types, great saved brother 👊🧡🔥
WOW! Definitely a fantastic day artifact hunting!! The Artifact Gods are with you Sir!! You just might need another channel if you keep this up!! Just a bit of friendly advice from one who learned the hard way! Take it easy on the sifter. Those little ears and tips will snap off..... It looks like the base to the quarts drill was in the sifter....
Good video enjoyed the hunt nice finds, catch you on the next one. 🇺🇸
That pottery can give a time range for some past visitors. That camp could have been used over and over for eons. The kind of spot that draws a camp.
My family and I hunted Indian artifacts for 40 years. I'm screaming at my phone as I'm watching you shuffling through those "rocks"!!!
Reread your artifact books for better identification. You're missing several items while focused on just arrow heads.
Plummets, discoildal's, banner stones, etc. are potentially being hurriedly discarded.
Awesome discovery BTW
I know. They are still there though ;)
@@aquachigger That square stone was a scraper you tossed it . when you go back check it out . First tub of rocks you sifted. I have collected for 40 years here in Florida.
Arrowheads are the only thing interesting.collect what you want karen😂
Hi Chigg! That was another nice artifact trip. You came up with some nice pieces. You found a good productive spot with even more potential with the tools you mentioned. Have a good day!
Some lovely finds keep searching for those arrow heads would love to find them
Good finds makes my skin crawl watchn you shake them big rocks thats a great way to break really fine tips and ears.
When I ran a 5” suction dredge looking for gold on the Ettowah river, I would occasionally find an arrow head in the box.
That would be a great system to set up there but only running the sucked up material across a large classification screen.
Your vids are always interesting to watch. My back could not stand all that bending over to pick things up, but I can certainly sit in my easy chair and watch you find artifacts from the past.
Beautiful points i wonder what state he is in because them points look alot different then the ones southern Virginia
I love your videos. You've brought me hours of enjoyment. Thank you.
Go to 11:03 on the video. Middle of the screen in the top half looks like a base sticking out and possibly a tip below it then over to the far right looks to be a notched corner sticking out.
That's a great spot! Deeper you go the farther back your going. Good stuff deeper.
That flat round rock is a grind stone.
Tons of fire rock! Some of the smaller stones are probably sanding/polishing stones. Nice spot.
I follow a few people that hunt for Arrowheads and this is one of the best spots I have seen yet. Between you and Zach Byrd have the best spots
Thanks!
Thanks so much! I appreciate it.
I wonder if that straight line is maybe a layer of volcanic dust. Great find Chigg. That large black one is awesome.
I absolutely love ur videos. Makes me want to go out there and look for history. U do a perfect balance of treasure hunting history hunting and talking and explaining. Seriously. A lot of other peoples videos usually do to much of one thing and it ruins the videos for me. Not to bad mouth them don’t have anything against anyone. Just with me your balance works perfect. And I’m positive I’m not the only one who thinks this based on ur numbers LOL wish more people did it like this because I enjoy watching these types of videos. I have to look up your tv show. Haven’t seen it but sure I would love it. If u ever need someone to write a letter for u with everything going on let me know would be happy to!
One of my favorite videos. Some of those looked like incomplete arrowheads. With all the flakes there maybe they were producing the arrowheads in that area. Thanks.
Fabulous finds in a great spot. Well done. I enjoyed meeting you at Bill Southern’s outing.
Cool video thanks for sharing. Hey when you go back you need to go through that pile of rocks that you found the drill in .the drill was broken on the bottom and you picked it up and threw it back in the pile. You probably broke it sifting.
that was awesome,we dont find arrow heads like this in OZ , this site needs to be documented with care,would love to know more about the tribe who camped there,what a great find chigg good luck.
I think those arrow heads are really awesome Chigg , really great episode. Really makes me wonder what the land looked like back then .
Ya. My husband and I do that all the time, wonder what this land looked like when the Indians were here, 2,3,400 years ago ???😊😎
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Nice finds mr chigg thats a good little honey hole
Now, THIS is exciting!
I'm so envious, I'm a rock hound, particularly agates. sure love watching finding all your treasures. Hey from MN.
I love this stuff! Amazing finds, the history is so powerful when you hold an item in your hand no body has touched in 1000+ years
Great artifact save Chigg, I use 1/4” screen in my sifter and a flat bottom shovel in the water, good luck👍🏻
Oh man that quartz drill bit is spectacular I would love to own some of those pieces.
Nice sifter. Just the right size. Thanks for sharing
Considering the sheer density, this has to be a 'factory' spot. They'd gather around the fire, do their thing and chip away at things. One thing that makes me think this might be the case is the fact that there's a lot of fresh cuts. Usually, if you find a big spot like this, they're worn out, broken, and you're in a trash pit (or the equivalent). These might've even been lesson chips.
i think you hit the nail on the head. i mentioned on the last video that it looked like this is the actual spot where the activity happened and not just a low pressure area where the artifacts settled. they probably utilized the water clarity and threw down on top of the fish resulting in all those broken points left in situ. a lot out deeper probably went downstream to find bedrock cracks but that little turn with all the mud and silt caught and held a lot of it. i was going to ask you if you saw any rock piles that looked human made nearby to confirm it.
the oval stones are used to grind seeds acorns so forth to make food.
It's not often you find a settled area so close to the river but with amount of artifacts and the shifting banks I'd say you found a large village! Great job Beau!👍
Yeah I was thinking the same thing if I’m detecting and find a high concentration of finds it usually means a villa site or farmstead
Every time you find something I got excited as if I had found it. Your little sifter is nifty
Not sure how I missed this one?
I really enjoyed seeing all the spear heads, arrowheads, etc.
It would be so thrilling for me to find just 1 of those in my lifetime! Wow!
Way to go man.. sweet.. good spot for sure
Inherited some fine arrowheads from my Great Uncle's farm in SE WI. Wish I knew about this hobby 50 years ago. Target rich land.
If "Time Team" had an American Series: This would be such a great location to work with whichever Tribe who would have originated in the area to do a 3 day dig to explain what the importance of this site is.
They did a US time team, you'd have have to check the episode listings. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Team_America
Will Parry, thank you for the American Time Team link.
Mick would have a field day.
I hope he contacts the tribal ppl of that land. There is one...
Mr. Chigg you have the equivalent of gold fever in the world of archeology. Slow down and remember that flint is like glass and will chip and break easily.