2005 UPDATES- Finally........Arrowhead hunting in North Carolina has gone steadily downhill over the past ten years. No till farming has completely usurped the old bottom plowing that has gone on for generations. That is good for anti-erosion, but AWFUL for field collectors. Even in the most rural areas, if a field is disced(or miraculously bottom plowed), many collectors are now concentrated onto less sites. Many of the over 125 sites that I have collected from for many years, are now planted in pine trees. Of all those sites, quite a few large villages, less than 5 were disturbed in any way in 2004. This resulted in record low numbers of whole points found last year, only 5 added to the best finds case, and less than 100 total good points found. SIMPLY DISGUSTING!!
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Remembering the
Some of my better finds from before no-till. |
Banners and parts
I think I found fifteen half banners before I ever lucked up on a whole one, and that was in a pushed up cutover pile on the edge of a no-till village. |
Banners and parts
Less walking, more working. More working, more money, more relics to love. These South Carolina Deptford axes came to me in a small one-farm collection off of the Savannah River in Abbeville County SC. Also notible was a fine translucent coastal plains chert Pickwick- a G-10 in all respects! (see next page) BACK to MAIN page MORE RELICS from the past few years |
