Thisoldgoldchaser
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Was searching a couple of years back on my place. There is a seasonal creek that runs through one end of my pasture. It used to be a live water creek years back before the water table lowered due to farming. Had heard from the guy I bought it from that one of the local tribes back in the 1800 used to hunt and camp in the area near this creek as well as white hunters and settlers. My place is the original homestead and I bought it from the family whose ancestor homesteaded it.
So I went out there one day to see what I could find with my detector at the time, an MXT. Which I dont have any more and I regret it...but thats another story. Anyway,
I was searching this one spot in all metal mode and had been getting nothing but some farm trash.
Went over a few feet away just to try a different spot and almost right away got a loud signal at about 8 inches. Centered and started digging. About 9 or 10 inches down I finally found this rifle ball. While checking it over and cleaning off some of the dirt I happened to glance down in the hole and found the item to the left of the ball in the photo sticking point first out of the side. It was interesting enough for me to pull it out to discover it was an arrowhead.. This interested me enough to look around some more and on top of the dirt from the hole, lo and behold another arrowhead.
Two arrowheads found in the same spot, along with a rifle ball. Now what is interesting about this, and why I wish these could talk. The rifle ball has teeth marks in it, and is a bit out of round but It doesnt look like its been fired. And it has a small chunk missing in one spot. The other thing, I havent measured it, but actually it looks more like a pistol ball than a rifle ball in size. Not sure what caliber it would be. Maybe a 44 cal size.
So, why were these all right within inches of each other, why the teeth marks on the ball, why the arrowheads.
So lets hear some theories.......I have my own thoughts on it. Like I said...if they could only talk.
Here are the arrowheads and the ball.
[attachment 152164 arrowheads.jpg]
The arrowhead to the left was the one I found down in the hole, the one on the right was on top of the dirt I took out of the hole.
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This is the now dry creekbed and I the hole I dug was to the left in the foreground up out of the bed. Its seasonal now but used to be a live creek back in the 20's and before.
So I went out there one day to see what I could find with my detector at the time, an MXT. Which I dont have any more and I regret it...but thats another story. Anyway,
I was searching this one spot in all metal mode and had been getting nothing but some farm trash.
Went over a few feet away just to try a different spot and almost right away got a loud signal at about 8 inches. Centered and started digging. About 9 or 10 inches down I finally found this rifle ball. While checking it over and cleaning off some of the dirt I happened to glance down in the hole and found the item to the left of the ball in the photo sticking point first out of the side. It was interesting enough for me to pull it out to discover it was an arrowhead.. This interested me enough to look around some more and on top of the dirt from the hole, lo and behold another arrowhead.
Two arrowheads found in the same spot, along with a rifle ball. Now what is interesting about this, and why I wish these could talk. The rifle ball has teeth marks in it, and is a bit out of round but It doesnt look like its been fired. And it has a small chunk missing in one spot. The other thing, I havent measured it, but actually it looks more like a pistol ball than a rifle ball in size. Not sure what caliber it would be. Maybe a 44 cal size.
So, why were these all right within inches of each other, why the teeth marks on the ball, why the arrowheads.
So lets hear some theories.......I have my own thoughts on it. Like I said...if they could only talk.
Here are the arrowheads and the ball.
[attachment 152164 arrowheads.jpg]
The arrowhead to the left was the one I found down in the hole, the one on the right was on top of the dirt I took out of the hole.
[attachment 152167 IMG_2866.JPG]
This is the now dry creekbed and I the hole I dug was to the left in the foreground up out of the bed. Its seasonal now but used to be a live creek back in the 20's and before.