steve bankston
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Registered: Sep 2013
Location: tylertown,mississippi
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Artifact Hunting
Thanks Elmo for the kind words on BO. Hope your Pup has what it takes and makes you a nice hound, Take Care.
Thanks Tommy. We have always kept an eye out for Petrified Wood or Arrowheads, but lately we have gotten a little more serious about Native American Artifact Hunting. I will post some pictures Soon. The best things we have found lately are: Small Bowl, used for mixing face paint, Drill, used to make holes, and the Best One was found Tuesday by my Son Shane as we were winching some concrete blocks out of the River. One of the blocks, which weigh 2,000 pounds each, dragged up a STONE WHEEL. We asked on Facebook if anybody had a clue as to what it was and was told it is a CHUNKY STONE. Used as Target Practice by Indians to be able to hit a moving target. One Indian would Roll the Stone while the other shot at it. It is in Awesome Condition and has depressions on each side in the center so you can tell it was used and they hit the center a LOT. Found it 100 yards down river from the house where there is a Clay Bed that the River flows over Very Shallow and Swift. After thinking about it, that is the Only Place around that you can wade the River and its only Knee Deep All the way across. We have found Arrowheads at our Cool Pool right across the River from the house. I think the Indians used the Spring as Drinking Water from the Cool Pool and the Clay Bed as a River Crossing. So my Area should be a Hot Bed of Indian Artifacts. We have bought a few books trying to learn more about all the Artifacts that could be found in this Area. Makes me think about our time here on EARTH. These Artifacts were made by Someone, By Hand, Hundreds or Thousands of years ago and are still intact today just like the day they were made. What are we building Today that we will leave behind that will last that long? NOTHING.
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