Rainman
Junior Member
This has to fall under the category of a relic. I was digging & detecting and sifting around the north side of my house in preparation for planting a nice pine tree. I dug down to the sand layers and figured that was enough of being careful, nothing is likely to be down this far. Well, three shovel fulls later this thing popped out. I took notice and picked it up thinking it was a sharpening stone in that I have found many around the property. Immediately I thought, WOW, this isn't a sharpening stone, it looks like a cave man tool !
I called and sent some e-mail pictures to my friend at the state museum.... his response... "Actually Don, that is a cave man tool" It's a "Red Paint People gouge" used to make dug out canoes etc. I asked... how old is this thing? His response ... Oh about 5 to 7 thousand years old, Equal to or older than the Pyramids of Egypt... I had the same response as bottle cap to his big ring find... HOLLY CRAP!!!
Since then I have found a scraper and had two Archeologists give me the same dating time period and had the Native American community leaders out to see what I found... It's going to stay with the house for a while and then someday it will go to the Native American Museum.
I always hope to find nice old relics, I just never expected to find a relic from the stone age and certainly not 6 feet from my house.
Don
I called and sent some e-mail pictures to my friend at the state museum.... his response... "Actually Don, that is a cave man tool" It's a "Red Paint People gouge" used to make dug out canoes etc. I asked... how old is this thing? His response ... Oh about 5 to 7 thousand years old, Equal to or older than the Pyramids of Egypt... I had the same response as bottle cap to his big ring find... HOLLY CRAP!!!
Since then I have found a scraper and had two Archeologists give me the same dating time period and had the Native American community leaders out to see what I found... It's going to stay with the house for a while and then someday it will go to the Native American Museum.
I always hope to find nice old relics, I just never expected to find a relic from the stone age and certainly not 6 feet from my house.
Don
