Stone Tools Everywhere : Return To The Indian Camp On The Washed Out River Bend
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ต.ค. 2021
- While out exploring the river some time ago I discovered a riverbank that was being eroded by flooding. Spread out beneath the bank were some very beautiful quartz arrowheads and other stone tools. In this video, I return to the site with a small sifter and scoop up the gravel and stones just beneath the surface of the water and I can't believe what I find in just over an hour of sifting.
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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 😬
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
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.
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!
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
I was thinking the same thing. If I had a spot that rich I wouldn't go home, just live like a homeless person till my family held an intervention.
@@user-ky3ph9nw2d 😂
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.
My eyes are green with envy... I have a few local Native American artifacts. Accidentally left my Idaho arrow heads in Idaho.
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.
Not only cool videos but a badass theme song ta boot.
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😂
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!
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
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.
I love to go arrowhead hunting, mainly alibates flint here in the Texas panhandle.
That flat round rock is a grind stone.
On no the dreaded swing sickle! A childhood nightmare for me.
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!!!)
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.
You have found some great stuff!!
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 😉
Wow that sifter is much better than my old pizza pan with 0.5 inch holed drilled in it and a pool noodle zip tied to the outside!
Way Awesome those were some amazing 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😂😂😂
Cool! Some of those artifacts look even newer than the Hunley in the background! The Hunley is one strange looking craft!
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?
Alot of people drive off road stuff and 4 wheelers where I hunt for my stuff...... years ago I use to find alot more complete stuff..... now mostly broken stuff..... about 5 or 6 brokes to one whole one..... just not the same as it use to be.... also alot of people won't let you hunt private land like they used to back in the day..... crazy times.
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
You really got a good spot there. Beautiful old stuff.
One of your best videos. Thank you sir!
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.
Chigg trying to give me a heart attack. Just throwing around and loosing some of the best points I've ever seen. 🙄
Making me so anxious every time he tosses one on the bank to get 'later' >_
Me too. I was on edge the whole time. I believe this is the first video I've watched where I was actually talking to the tv. Hey, whoa, slow down, what are you doing, omg, go back lol. Amazing spot though. That's really worth a slow thorough excavation. The finds that are waiting in that clay mud.....I can't even imagine.
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
I'm cooking dinner and all i hear is my daughter shrieking screaming and crying in the living room shouting he missed it! I go in to find her watching this video, i asked her what happened and she kept saying he missed he missed it covered in tears.. I told her chigger will be back and she calmed down..
lol... that's sweet.
Beau, watch some of our creek hunting videos. You may get some ideas that will help you on that site.
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 😊
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.
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...
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...
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.
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
I’m loving the sifting! This is a really cool for a change of pace ♥️
Love that you get excited about find the stone treasures.
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.
You found a great spot for artifacts chig, keep going back!👍
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
No matter how small, I keep all the quartz I find. I add it to my rock bed in front of my house. My dream is to find a quartz point!
Yah buddy, a most eggcellent adventure. Thanks Chigg for bringing us along.
Keep on peoples...
the oval stones are used to grind seeds acorns so forth to make food.
Thanx Chigg for another great AQUACHIGGER ADVENTURE
Dang Chigg, you’re killing it on this spot! Nice points. 👍
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.
As much as I love relics. Native stone is the tops ! Awesome finds !
These videos are an absolute treat. Love seeing all those beautiful points come out of the mud and rocks.
I can't wait until you go back to this Arrowhead spot
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
You found a helluva hot spot man. Veritable trove.
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 .
That bank is perfect for excavating!
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!
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.
Awesome seive and definitely artifacts, congratulations on finding such a great place. God Bless, (Glen).
Looking forward to a return visit, all the right tools, equipment and an easier touch, Beau. : )
Now, THIS is exciting!
If I didn't know you I would be suspicious but your ethics are unquestionable. Good for you.
I’m SO envious!! Good job
Wow!! That very first scoop was great!!!!! I seen the other two before you did.😁
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.
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!
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 👊🧡🔥
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
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.
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!
Awesome finds Beau! Very much enjoyed this hunt.
Thanks for the great idea to look for arrow heads, if I ever get to go looking. 😻
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
None of this video is boring. It all interests me.
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.
Wow! Love it! Truly awesome artifacts!
@21:10 bottom center left of the screen huge cutter point/hand knife !!
excellent video Beau. great little sifter. thanks for the fun time with you. God bless you all.
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.
Glad you read my mind and sifted
Excellent find!
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
Your incredible, you got a honey hole. Thanks, David
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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 ???
Perfect arrowheads!
Looks like fun some nice arrow heads
like a giddy kid Good for you
Great video. Thank you.
Oh man that quartz drill bit is spectacular I would love to own some of those pieces.
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....
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Chig, you are so lucky!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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!👍
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
Love your water adventures!
Those are once in a lifetime points where I'm from sir you are a lucky man
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.
WoW!!!What a great spot! Some beautiful saves!