High Plains Artifacts
Cool Pictures
Two very nice Sanish points. Both out of the same site near Sanish, ND, which is about 4 miles west of New Town in Mountrail County. The Knife River Flint point is 2" long and the Moss Agate point is 1 7/16" long.
Here is group of Sanish points found in Mountrail and McLean Counties, North Dakota.
Here is probably the nicest blade I've ever held! Found by my daughter's Great Grandfather Jake (the guy who got me started with artifacts), may he rest in peace.
The above pictures are simply a bunch of really nice pieces I photographed lately.......not to forget, points which I wish were in my collection.
Here is a bunch a Folsom point fragments that I got from one of my good buddys, who also happens to have some of the nicest pieces I've ever sold.
This was a sign that my girlfriend and I ran across down in the southeast part of Wyoming while looking for places to hunt arrowheads. We didn't find a single damn point, or a scraper for that matter, but we did see this sign and that made the trip worthwhile right there.
Here is my favorite base out of all the broken bases I've manage to stumble across. It is a 2 1/2" Paleo base of some sort. It has grinding on the edges of the two "Boot" shaped ears and in the basal concavity. It also has abevel on the left edge of each face that only measures about 1/8" from the edge (almost as steep as a scraper) and it exhibits beautiful diagonal flaking. There is a base from the Mill Iron site that was a surface find that looks exactly like this one but it isn't as big and I don't think it has the bevels. I was told there is also one that was found down by the Angostura Reservoir in the south part of the Black Hills in South Dakota...... but that's about all I know about it.
Here is my second favorite base out of all the broken bases I've manage to stumble across. It is a 1 1/16" Goshen base made of Rainy Buttes Formation Petrified Wood.
Here is my greatest find to date. I've managed to find 7 caches in the last 3 years but this point beats them all. I found this beauty after 10 minutes of walking, what a lucky bastard aye!
Here is a dandy fine point that my brother found a couple years back. I was walking in the same exact area the day before he found it but apparently luck was not on my side that day, because the next day he came across it. But being the kick ass cool brother that he is, he gave it to me for my birthday...... I think he knew I had a boner for that point since the day he found it and showed it to me.
I don't know what's up with this old, machine totein' woman, but that doesn't detract from the fact that it is a cool pic! Anybody got any idea what it says on the top?
This is a picture of the Four Bears bridge which crosses the Missouri River about 4 miles west of New Town, ND. It is no longer standing,..... a new bridge was built last year in it's place.
Another picture of the Four Bears Bridge taken from a large butte named Crow Flies High.
It's not nice to scare small children.
Another picture of the Four Bears Bridge, my favorite that I have taken so far.
These two had a little more fun than I did......I mean, for one thing, someone's gotta be able to use the camera. Good times......good times.
Here is a petridied wood stump that I ran across while my brother and I were 4-wheeling through some coulees south of New Town. The bottom of the stump is about 6 to 7 feet across and the clay below it, holding it up is about 3 to 4 feet across.
This is a picture of my buddy taking a good old kick to the bean bag. I don't remember the reasoning behind it but somehow he managed to piss off my brother's fiancee and received a foot to the nether region. It's probably one of the best pictures I've ever taken, because I'm assuming if I had missed the shot I most likely would not be offered another chance at the photo. Looks painful as hell but no matter what the pain we laughed our asses off.
Here is a decent picture of the North Unit of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park in Western North Dakota south of Watford City. Who ever said North Dakota was flat......
Here is a picture of what I believe to be a very small rock shelter. I'm pretty sure it is from the 1800's or earlier because the stones in the small 6' stone circle in front of the shelter are pedistled up on about an inch of clay. So obviously it has been there for a while. Very near to this shelter there is a wolf den. I checked inside it and found a beaver skull. The only reason it would be there is that it was killed by a wolf living in there and was brought back to it's den. The shelter and den are high up on the top rim of a large coulee in the badlands near Arnegard, ND.
An old Indian camp site which if I remember correctly was a camp site that Chief Sitting Bull had been staying at. I think this picture was taken around Fort Yates, ND.
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