Fossil Collectors??

My dad used to be a coal miner, and he was always bringing all sorts of crazy fossils home. I don't really know much about them though.

I dont collect, but i find this kinda shit interesting.

Post some more if u got em dude!

Here is a few...the spiral 1 is an ammonite that has been ground down, and pollished. The 2 big arrow heads were found in Tenn.....they look like some kind of tool for scraping. I have more, but I will have to dig em up.

Originally Posted by Kushcrosser

Here is a few...the spiral 1 is an ammonite that has been ground down, and pollished. The 2 big arrow heads were found in Tenn.....they look like some kind of tool for scraping. I have more, but I will have to dig em up.

that one grey arrowhead is really obvious that it's an arrowhead, they did a good job making that one, whoever it was. Where did u find these? just by walking around and found em by accident?

walking if fields in the spring after they disc the soil..and after a good rain is the best time. Also, good spots for finding them is on hills, thats usually where they ambushed food.

That's how I used to find arrowheads and other artifacts,Kush. Construction sites where they've removed the top layer of soil is another good spot to look as are little erosion gullies coming off of flats above rivers and creeks.

I was taking my kid back to college a few weeks back. A large rock had slid down the hill and split,revealing a huge plant fossil complete with leaves and branches. It was roughly 6 feet by 4 feet and the fossil covered the entire face. I didn't want rock hunters to try to split it up,as the boulder it was on probably weighed 4-5 tons.

I called the State Department of History and gave them the mile marker and GPS location. I covered it with some brush and left it. I got a call back a couple of weeks back saying they had recovered it and did I want credit? I passed.

I guess that's my good deed for the decade?

now i feel bad.
:C

i just flintknap arrow heads out of local rocks and scatter them at random for young adventurous archeologists to "discover" and ponder over.