4,000+ year old Copper Culture fish hook

matmit · May 24, 2019

With all the rain here, spots are limited.

I visited the edge of a farm field near a river where an old house once stood.
My first find of the evening was an old clay pipe stem and I was feeling lucky.
I did not find a single coin, but I did have one penny-like signal.

This is the second piece of Old Copper Culture which I have found in this area.

Happy Hunting Everybody and Happy Memorial Day weekend!

matmit · May 25, 2019

I forgot to mention, it is probably 5,000 - 6,000 years old! :shock:

https://copperculture.homestead.com/

ChrisnAmanda1 · May 25, 2019

That's incredible! ! Outstanding find!

Ice Scratcher · May 25, 2019

Awesome, awesome, awesome!!!

Isn't that your third piece of CC you've found altogether?

Congrats again bro!!

<°)))>{

wafflesngravy · May 25, 2019

Forgive my lack of knowledge, but how do you determine the age of it?

Dan B. · May 25, 2019

matmit said:
I forgot to mention, it is probably 5,000 - 6,000 years old!

https://copperculture.homestead.com/

First of all I would like to say nice save on a piece of History. Also the link that you provided has caused me second guess some of the copper pieces that I find. You just never know.

Foragist · May 26, 2019

That's a bent piece of wire. Find those all the time. Darn false signals!

Very cool Mat! I bet copper was high tech stuff way back then. I wonder if was a disappointing loss of somebody's one and only "superhook". They probably had to go back to whittling something out of bone or wood after losing that!

John-Edmonton · May 26, 2019

That is one cool find Mat! Thanks for that link. Lots of great information there!

Silver_Seeker · May 28, 2019

WOW!

I would've figure it was junk, yikes.

matmit · May 28, 2019

ChrisnAmanda1 said:
That's incredible! ! Outstanding find!

Thanks

Ice Scratcher said:
Awesome, awesome, awesome!!!

Isn't that your third piece of CC you've found altogether?

Congrats again bro!!

<°)))>{

Actually, number 4, but who's counting?

wafflesngravy said:
Forgive my lack of knowledge, but how do you determine the age of it?

Patina, and another similar item found in the area, plus great websites

Dan B. said:
First of all I would like to say nice save on a piece of History. Also the link that you provided has caused me second guess some of the copper pieces that I find. You just never know.

Yes, you cannot throw anything away until you get it home, clean it and research it

matmit · May 28, 2019

Foragist said:
That's a bent piece of wire. Find those all the time. Darn false signals!

Very cool Mat! I bet copper was high tech stuff way back then. I wonder if was a disappointing loss of somebody's one and only "superhook". They probably had to go back to whittling something out of bone or wood after losing that!

Thanks, you have to look closely at all of this stuff

John-Edmonton said:
That is one cool find Mat! Thanks for that link. Lots of great information there!

Yep, thanks

Silver_Seeker said:
WOW!

I would've figure it was junk, yikes.

Be careful, I almost pitched my first piece of old copper culture as I thought it was a drawer pull or some such thing...

Skippy SH13 · May 29, 2019

matmit said:
I forgot to mention, it is probably 5,000 - 6,000 years old!

https://copperculture.homestead.com/

cool article. Thanks for sharing!

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