2019-Whenever Misc. Grab Bag Thread
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Nice. A good clean one with a full shape. I've only ever found partials of spearpoints of that size.
Yeah, we used to find them where we camped down on the Cape Fear River in the sandy silt around creeks that fed the river. You could find them up around Kerr Lake too, around Occoneechee State Park in Virginia. But mostly they were all beat up and chipped if they were of of a good size. When I was in Cubs we found an old hollowed out tree stump with like 30-40 arrowheads that were in pretty good shape up there.
I mean, there was always NIL money. Just not enough of it and not spent wisely enough aside from one season when Keatts hit on a couple of key guys at one time. Other than 2024 his transfer spending was largely wasted.
With the House settlement, that's all changing to a revenue sharing model anyway. So, it's hard to say what budgets the teams will have until we actually see it. It's pretty obvious that State has decided to push more financial resources to men's basketball though. And frankly, it makes sense because they haven't been getting bang for their buck from football and your money goes further in hoops.
With the House settlement, that's all changing to a revenue sharing model anyway. So, it's hard to say what budgets the teams will have until we actually see it. It's pretty obvious that State has decided to push more financial resources to men's basketball though. And frankly, it makes sense because they haven't been getting bang for their buck from football and your money goes further in hoops.
Pucking Lamplighter
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I've got hundreds of spearpoints and arrowheads that I found over the past 45 years, with the oldest being a Clovis (~11,000 B.C.) all the way through Randolph ( post-contact ~1,700 A.D.). Seriously, I'm more a trailing edge technology guy than a cutting edge kinda guy. I learned how to knap stone in the early 80s and still do it when the urge strikes. The points I made are obviously different from ancient points.
Places I thought would be fields and farms forever are now subdivisions and strip malls. Most of my hunting grounds are covered up by "progress".
Here's a few frames from what I found in the region. Even though they were utilitarian, they're art to me. Lots of people collect, swap, buy, or sell points. I consider them to be the reward for having spent the time, energy, and sweat looking for them. I would never buy or sell atrifacts. The ancient people lived here for thousands of years and stone tools were about all that was left to tell some of their story.
Jim
Places I thought would be fields and farms forever are now subdivisions and strip malls. Most of my hunting grounds are covered up by "progress".
Here's a few frames from what I found in the region. Even though they were utilitarian, they're art to me. Lots of people collect, swap, buy, or sell points. I consider them to be the reward for having spent the time, energy, and sweat looking for them. I would never buy or sell atrifacts. The ancient people lived here for thousands of years and stone tools were about all that was left to tell some of their story.
Jim
We renovated the Orange County Sherriff's office about 20 years ago and one of the older deputies had about 6 banker's boxes of spearpoints and arrowheads just sitting in the corner of his workspace. I asked him about them and he said he had more at home, but those were ones he had found on duty so he felt like he couldn't take them home. He was just one of those guys that finds that kind of stuff most every time he ends up tromping through a streambed. My mother in law used to be that way with sharks teeth. Some people just find stuff.
Pucking Lamplighter
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I can't walk over bare dirt without looking. Found points in places nobody ever thought they'd be, though most of my head hunting has been done in tobacco fields. There's not too much tobacco or deep plowed land around here anymore. Everybody's drilling in grain and the bottom plows have been left parked.
Indian Camp Road in Johnston County came by its name honestly. There's more houses there than anything there now. Same with Arrowhead Loop in Bobcat Pointe subdivision in Chatham County. It's not named that way by accident. That place was a major Rhyolite quarry site which supplied stone tool material for thousands of years. Same with Sugar Lake off Mt. Gilead Road. Find the material source and find the camp & village sites, and you'll find the artifacts.
Jim
Indian Camp Road in Johnston County came by its name honestly. There's more houses there than anything there now. Same with Arrowhead Loop in Bobcat Pointe subdivision in Chatham County. It's not named that way by accident. That place was a major Rhyolite quarry site which supplied stone tool material for thousands of years. Same with Sugar Lake off Mt. Gilead Road. Find the material source and find the camp & village sites, and you'll find the artifacts.
Jim
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Meh. Go Nittany Lions.
I shipped a ton of money to BU from 2006-10. Go Terriers!