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Very interesting
Oct 2, 2021, 10:32 AM
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Thanks
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that is pretty interesting stuff
Oct 2, 2021, 11:48 AM
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my granddad farmed in Allendale County and every year when he planted the field for his peanut crop, me and my cousins would walk the freshly-plowed fields and find arrowheads, spear heads, pottery pieces, and flint (LOTS of flint). It wasn't the Topper Site (see link below), but it wasn't that far from it.
We didn't know any better on what we were finding, it was just a bunch of random junk to us, like finding sharks teeth at the beach (sigh...if we only knew then what we do now). We probably had as many as in that pic at one time, maybe more. Buckets full. Most were chipped or fragments from being plowed over many times. We played with them and made our own arrows and things with them.
I still have a handful that I kept, ones in perfect shape. The best one I ever had, it was bigger than your hand, a spear head in perfect shape. Took it to school for show and tell day, but a girl dropped it and it broke into 3 pieces. Sucked.
https://www.scseagrant.org/ancient-tools-searching-for-the-first-americans/
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Good read. ******
Oct 2, 2021, 11:53 AM
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well, my post will be similar to scooters....
Oct 2, 2021, 2:38 PM
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as a kid I used to spend a couple weeks every year with my uncle/aunt/cousins. He was a lineman like my dad and 3 other uncles, so they moved often to follow the work. I remember Perry and Fort Valley GA. Sometimes he'd take us to a recently plowed field to look for arrowheads.
They had tons of em, some perfect, some broken. Pottery too, mostly pieces but some bowls that were intact. They'd been doing it for years. On my very first trip I found a perfect spear head about 6 inches long...
I still have it. Will post pic if I can find it quickly. I have always wondered if I was really that lucky or if he planted it for me to find.
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When i was a kid, my uncle had a place at River Falls in
Oct 2, 2021, 3:33 PM
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northern Greenville county which included some land along the Middle Saluda River. We used to find arrowheads and other stone and old metal implements and trinkets which may or may not have been of native American origin, all the time along the creeks, in the pastures, and in the woods. At one place along the Middle Saluda, there was a very sharp "u" turn in the river, and right in the apex of the bend was a cave we always called "The Indian Hole". According to my father, who was born in 1922, and his brothers and sisters, the cave at one time had been full of Indian artifacts as it had been used by the Cherokee at one time either as a hideout, or for storage and cerimonial functions. My father said that when he was very young, researchers from both Clemson and Coot U spent quite a bit of time excavating the cave. I remember seeing the cave when I was a kid, but never went in it, and my father always said there was nothing left in it anyway. After my father died in 2006, I inherited that piece of property containing the Indian Hole, and went up to investigate. To my disappointment, over time the steep, high river bank around the cave had crumbled, and the river itself had pretty much eroded what was left away. I wish now I still had some of those old arrowheads and artifacts, but I must have lost or given them away when I was a kid.
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