I live in Michigan. The first time I took my new metal detector out I went to a local lake and scanned the shores thinking I'd find jewlery. After digging 50 or so bottle caps I became very discouraged and decided to quit and walk back to the car, on the way back I got a solid signal and decided to dig one more hole, I didn't find the signal but a foot and a half down i sifted the sand in my hand and out came a native american arrow head. I've been hooked ever since.
Hell ya I looked for 4 years man and I was done giving up and I came across the Sedalia big ole Spearhead never found anything before that and since then I've been so hooked it's taking up a lot of my life and it's one of my greatest Passions
So I feel I had to cut in with some info. I introduced gigmaster to this collector. Some people say it’s impossible to collect that much stuff, or it’s wrong, or unethical, etc... this area is super rich in artifacts. Neighborhoods are built over significantly important sites everyday. About the same time this video was made I started hitting a new neighborhood construction site. The area was razed with bulldozers and then runoff ponds were cut in and lastly roads. Now they are building houses. Point being in the short time since this video was posted I have found over 100 points in this one 10 acre “cleared” area that they are building houses on. Now the site is completely finished and impossible to hunt anymore. So this is a hypothetical question, but is it better to pick them up and cherish them and treat them like the true priceless glimpses into man’s past that they are? Or should we let them lay and be hauled to a landfill or crushed by heavy equipment, or reburied a half a mile from their original location under a new Walmart? Just a thought!
It's better to have a national native American museum not native people's just natives so we can recover our history...well the general population anyways there's a few left that remember the shamen in the valley how we got here and how the Mason's betrayed us.
Suffolkdigger I too have found many,many,many awesome points, hatchets and grinding rocks. I live in Far East Tn. Only 39 miles as the crow flys from Cherokee, Tn. I moved here from Tulsa, Ok. I had a friend who found a lower jaw bone with 5 teeth in tact from a Mastodon. Any time I couldn’t find my friend I knew where he was. I believe his find was in Jenks. Good luck my friends.
in my opinion, I feel like I saved them, from being damaged more, however the native Americans feel they are sacred and should be left where they are. I guess everybody has their own opinion, a native once told me there a gift to find. so I'm not sure how to feel about finding them.
back in the 80s there was a man on Grand Lake St Marys OH ,who had a house full like this ,I wonder if he still alive being in his 70s back then ,all us field walkers were welcome to come and hear him talk of his finds and learn he was a true historian
Wow! IMPRESSIVE! Happy to have found some artifacts in TN and just out walking in my home state Mi. Thank you for your videos. So education and interesting. Shows what years of dedicated looking can achieve. Here's to having eagle-eyes and spotting those goodies! ❤😊🎉🎉🎉
The brass "button" is an ingot made melting brass into a crucible and then let cooled. Round crucible makes round button with flat side being the top of the lil brass puddle naturally cooled level.
I see a clam shell.... Right there! The button had a tab but the welding failed over the years & it came off! Awesome collection right there Holy Crap brother!
I asked an Arizona park ranger if my family could pick up pottery shards. He replied that the state had huge warehouses full of shards, arrow heads, sandals and much more and he said to help ourselves as the state would never, ever have time or resources to examine even a fraction of what they had. I said ok and off we went with our pockets full and smiles on our faces.
About the best video I ever watched! Can you someday interview Mr. Prichard on how he located the artifacts? I live in the dismal swamp right off the old cedarworks railroad. On herring ditch.
That was so awsome, and that's overflow, wow.. Thanks for sharing this, i don't think we will see something like this again. Will be looking for the upstairs video from you in the future.
A double Cresent bannerstone to be more precise It was found in Sussex co VA. The double Cresent is more of a Ohio type and the material comes from around Michigan or Ontario being banded slate..
Those "pedestals" looked a little small to be of much help...maybe they'd work better if you put em with the mortar stones and used em as a PESTLE....Just a thought😉😁
Is there any chance you could talk that guy into a video of his entire collection? it would make a great video. Really enjoyed seeing that stuff, but video was too fast. Its worthy of a nice long video.
Not a neck piece, called a banner stone. Of course, I am just a dumb greedy collector who has spent 60 years reading and studying archaeology so I could be wrong , so please verbally crucifie me for my interest if it helps you feel good about yourself.
@@JamesSmith-xf1yb I was just gonna agree with ya brother...but if that's what your into I'll try my best...how bout... SHUT UP NERD!THAT AINT WHAT IT IS OLD MAN! YOU'RE SENILE!!! Did that fit the bill😁 hope ya have a good one ya ol flint picker😉
incredible. I want to go there now and check it out and see how the lay of the land is . Where did he say thay came from? down in the water, mud banks? Was it like the are you were looking with the shells? TY, John
what if the stones were not axes i mean they are stone ? if you was to try one out what could you do with unless it was real sharp or just made to bust heads i dont know
The Button at 4.14 mins, looks like it was a square nail on the back not a clasp, perhaps something used to nail into a wooden frame for upholstery ? A question if you dont mind ? where ish was the place with the fossils/ shells & how much above sea level is it ? thanks for doing the vids :)
This is the most beautiful collection I have ever seen most of what I have is more earlier like Stone Age , Union County South Carolina is where our farm is I've found a few clovis points ,if you don't mind me asking what state are you guys in
@@Gigmaster I would have never thought there were that many pieces in that condition anywhere I have a great aunt in TROUTSVILLE VA. I NEED TO GO AND SEE HER A WALK THE SPRING THAT RUNS BEHIND HER HOUSE and I will send you some pics of my collection if you have a link mine is mikeyt4562@gmail.com thanks and have a great day
I may have one of the largest collections in Maine. I'm only 51 years old though. That collection is un freaking believable!!!! I need to figure out what I'm going to do with it all when I pass away. Any suggestions?
LOL, I think about that with the small amount of stuff I have collected. I know my kids don't want it and it will go cheap when I am gone. You can always donate it to a museum or have someone set up to come and buy it all when you pass and leave $$ to your heirs. It is something to think about.
Do you not have any children that collect? If it were me and my children were not interested I would find the youngest artifact collector I could find and make there day/lifetime. I would love to donate it to someone who would cherish it. Museums I dont believe they cherish it as much as we collectors do.
Michael , the collections and where you find the artifacts should in my opinion be given to a local museum , this will help archeologist to draw a map of the site and may be they will carry on some work to have a better vue of what happened , they use tools and equipment, that we collectors do not have . I made a video on an engravings found in France i work on them and made a little video for fun ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bUTAtK6PWX0.html if you like to take photos you could may be register to viwbug to show your collection there
wow...super collection of artifacts right there he has...I have yet to find my first...i'd be tickled to find an arrowhead! He find all those on Virginia?
what a super collection he has there...such a shame they're not being shown to more...I've shared this video with several people an they love it...I'd love to spend a day there
awesome and will be looking forward to seeing that....he has so much and to hear his stories as to when and where he found them is so cool....love chatting to people like him and yourself...need to get you down this side of Virginia with your detector an gear and see if there's gold to be found here on the farm...I think there is No equipment to get out n look....thanks for sharing all you do
Sadly alot of the context they were found in has been lost. They should be in a museum. I'm curious what that 4 pronged object is though, was that ceremonial or a weapon of some kind?? It's a stunning piece and of international importance.
Man is any of that 4 sale I love the axe heads what state did u find them. When I was a child I found 2 axe heads @ the edge of the grand river in Michigan I played with them 4 a while. I knew they looked strange. I had
...this is, well, sad in a way, is there any information pertaining to where each piece was found? What's the point here, pardon the pun... so here we have a mass amount of stone in a basement... we all know how this ends because I have seen it countless times and helped clean it up - when the "collector" passes on (and trust me when I say I hope the "collector" lives to be 175) "the wife" is left to deal with it all
Powell collection? Looks jus like the complete powell collection from saftey harbor museum here in saftey harbor florida from the saftey harbor museum that had the 27 red cases...an the thousands of artifacts that i cant find yet...i will compare this video to the video i have before renovations to the saftey harbor museum .
Thank-you for sharing such an amazing collection of artifacts. I read that when Columbus came to America an estimate of 6 million people were living here. By 1900 there were less than 250,000. That is a shame but threw artifacts there story can be told of how they lived in tune with nature.
keryl holt They can be anywhere from 400 yeas old to over 10,000 years old! I will be doing some more videos with Mr. Pritchard and he will be explaining the age of some of the relics.
I became an Indian Arrowhead Hunter by accident I was up in East Texas had bought some property with a creek running through the back of it one of the locals come down and ask if he can hunt and I told him sure go ahead but I had no idea he was hunting for arrowheads and when he showed me his fines I cut him off I started hunting them myself I have a fraction of a collection of what was just shown but I have some there at least 10 inches long thank you for the video
The closest similarity that I know is on the head dress of Egyptian gods and was what held the circle of the sun which they worshipped. The part that all the secular people who reject any and all aspects of spiritual evidence miss is explained in the Bible and virtually every other ancient book of knowledge...and today these same people are the useful idiots that spiritual evil uses to try to hide their true origin and identity, because they are forced to relent at the lifting up of the Name above all names: Jesus/Yeshua HaMashiach...so we are told to look for biological aliens, when they indeed are not of this world, but cast out of heaven, fallen angels and the Nephilim they create in a twisted effort to rule the Earth in rebellion to YHVH. If you don't already have experience with this, you soon will. Don't forget the Name of Jesus, before which every alien's spiritual knee will bow. The only thing that does not immediately bow to the Name of Jesus and this power are those who YHVH gives free will...mankind, and the hybrids like Goliath that still exist today (such as was killed in Afganistan in 2003 by SOCOM squad, and which Hitler was dabbling with) and we are told will make another appearance before Jesus comes to destroy the enemies of YHVH Elohim. Probably more info than you asked for, but you will see the reasons soon enough.
My father was born in a little community on the James River called Indian Rock, near Buchanan. It served the Indians well for thousands of years. God bless them.
If you want to be a real collector, try getting out walking farmers Fields for your entire collection. I have a friend that I would put his collection up against this one when it came to points and projectiles
Every year across the country tens of thousands of artifacts are obliterated by farm implements by plows, disks, cultivators,etc. If not picked up by relic hunters or archaeologists, any knowledge they could relate is gone, any appreciation of the art they represent is lost.
That area where you found all those shells sticking out is a shell midden. Where Indians cleaned mussels and other out of the shells and disposed of the shells
Have a friend here for on west coast with a collection that’s easily as large. All the big collections were made back in the 30s, 40s, 50s. All the easy stuff is long gone.
