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re: What’s the coolest thing you’ve found?
Posted on 3/7/25 at 10:38 pm to 225Tyga
Posted on 3/7/25 at 10:38 pm to 225Tyga
I have been going to Horseshoe Beach , FL about 5 times a year over the last decade to flats fish. There are a few marshy islands about a 1/4 mile off shore with some good stretches of beach. A good storm always churns up the shoreline and uncovers a lot of spear points and pottery shards from the late archaic period of 3,000-5,000 ago. I have collected some nice pieces over the years by just beaching the boat and walking down the waterline.
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Posted on 3/7/25 at 10:42 pm to Z Cavaricci
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When I first started metal detecting I dug this up in a park near my house. “Wow, cool looking frog statue with a………wtf!!!”
That looks evil.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 11:06 pm to Porter Osborne Jr
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the body twitched and blood rained down from this ladies hair.
Why did that happen?
You suck at telling stories btw.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 11:15 pm to sledgehammer
A bullet from the Civil War in my backyard when I was a kid. Nashville.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 11:17 pm to Martini
Now that’s a good story.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 11:38 pm to sledgehammer
Found 5 large spear points all together dated 7500 years old. I've found thousands of arrowheads and that find really blew my mind.
Another is a 2500 year old point that still had tar around the base. The natives would sometimes use tar balls that washed up in the gulf to haft arrowheads to shafts. Whats really interesting is that I found it in the north half of arkansas so it traveled all that way.
Another is a 2500 year old point that still had tar around the base. The natives would sometimes use tar balls that washed up in the gulf to haft arrowheads to shafts. Whats really interesting is that I found it in the north half of arkansas so it traveled all that way.
Posted on 3/8/25 at 12:04 am to sledgehammer
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What’s the coolest thing you’ve found?
The sweetest, calmest coonhound who had, for whatever reason, been neglected by two families. I miss him everyday.
Posted on 3/8/25 at 12:37 am to Tr33fiddy
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Found 5 large spear points all together dated 7500 years old.
frick outta here.
Posted on 3/8/25 at 3:28 am to LSU Neil
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How did you know what it was
I was in college. Took it to a geology professor. He knew the difference between a mastodon molar and a mammoth molar.
Posted on 3/8/25 at 3:30 am to Catahoula
I would love to detect in Europe.
Posted on 3/8/25 at 4:35 am to sledgehammer
Got a rental property with a garage/storeroom behind it. Was digging around the slab in front of it a found a big hunk of cement. Dug it up and it was a perfect square of concrete about 2'x2'x2'. Brought it home and my dogs water dish sits on top of it. Don't have anything big enough to break it up to see if anything is encased in it.
Posted on 3/8/25 at 4:37 am to holdmuh keystonelite
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A quartz arrowhead.
My mom and dad used to arrowhead hunt on clear cuts a lot when I was growing up. Dad found a clear quartz arrowhead and mom found the only Clovis point out of the two of them. He was pissed.
Posted on 3/8/25 at 5:41 am to SquatchDawg
Been lucky on a couple arrowhead hunts. But my best find was a 6-7" green stone celt from an island.in a river. I was told it's from the Northwest and found all across the country so it's evidence of an extended network of commerce. And thenlater I found river after river of these same pre-shaped rocks in Montana and Idaho.
not the one - lifted from pintrest
not the one - lifted from pintrest
Posted on 3/8/25 at 5:59 am to sledgehammer
Not me , but my dad stayed home during Katrina. He drove out to what was once Bucktown, and found a money bag with 7k cash, that was bone dry. Probably was from a restaurant that got wiped out. True story.
Posted on 3/8/25 at 6:00 am to sledgehammer
I was playing Golf at Cruden Bay not far from Aberdeen with my cousin on a windy rainy day. One of the holes tees off onto a fairway below and I hit a good shot to the left side of the fairway but wind took it to the right into an area they were doing some kind of drainage work in. Went down and there was a straight sided ditch they had just cut with an excavator about 2 feet deep and it angled along the fairway. I figure it went into the little ditch. Something caught my eye about halfway down the side wall and it looked like a ball embedded in the dirt/mud. Just walked on by but decided to go back and make sure it wasn't mine. Dropped down and pulled it out. Knew immediately it wasn't mine because it had a few rings and a mesh pattern around it.. Long story short it was one of the original first rubber golf balls ever made. It was clearly marked Ocobo 27. Did some research and apparently they were made around 1890.
I still have it.
I still have it.
This post was edited on 3/8/25 at 6:12 am
Posted on 3/8/25 at 6:00 am to BlackAdam
Damn! I'd love to get my hands on those.
Posted on 3/8/25 at 6:04 am to awestruck
Another
Was helping look for Native American sites before a river was damned. And the guy I was paired with everyone said was an actual real Indian chief. Never asked him. So after several miles of me going this looks good Billy finally stops ignoring me. He looks over at me and says they'll be on the other side... rain blows in from the west.
And so once again I was found to be an idiot.
(true story)
Was helping look for Native American sites before a river was damned. And the guy I was paired with everyone said was an actual real Indian chief. Never asked him. So after several miles of me going this looks good Billy finally stops ignoring me. He looks over at me and says they'll be on the other side... rain blows in from the west.
And so once again I was found to be an idiot.
(true story)
Posted on 3/8/25 at 6:17 am to sledgehammer
A perfectly trilobite fossil during a class dig in North Alabama.
Was in the museum display at Columbus State University for many years. Not sure if still there
Was in the museum display at Columbus State University for many years. Not sure if still there
This post was edited on 3/8/25 at 10:42 pm
Posted on 3/8/25 at 7:10 am to sledgehammer
There are a ton of good reads in here 
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